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My first message board was RapDogs.com. It mostly revolved around text-based rap battles as well as hip-hop song and lyric critique and whatnot. In high school I spent about as much time on there as I do on here. Maybe I need to used the computer less...
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
it's interesting how many of us participated in text based pre-social media online communities. i've made a lot of friends and learned a lot about cool shit via message boards. interacting with people from all over the US and the world helped me understand different cultures and generally become more open-minded.
as such, when myspace began to ascend, followed by facebook, I thought for sure they would have a similar impact on the world as a whole, that social media would be a net positive good, people would get to know each other better, have a few laughs, and learn stuff. what i forgot is that it took me years and years of being awkward and offensive on message boards before i learned online etiquette: how to best present yourself and your ideas in a text-based online world, how to respond to others, when and where it is appropriate to bring up certain topics, and perhaps most importantly how to recognize and respond to/ignore trolls.
the world didn't have a decade or more to adapt to the new form of communication social media gave us. they didn't start in small, niche, specific interest communities where they could hone their communication skills. instead people with little to no internet experience were launched straight into a fire of a rapidly expanding general interest network including everyone they've ever met IRL and even more strangers and for some reason think it is appropriate to post a picture of them taking a bong rip with the caption "ROLL TIDE FUCK SOCIALISM WOMENS SUCK I LOVE WEED" and think nobody is going to say anything mean to them about that. i heard on a podcast the other day that the tremendous change in communication that social media brought about was like if the force of gravity was changed slightly over night.
My son's father used to follow me on Yahoo Groups moonlight Way and spout out all sorts of inappropriate real life shit about me. Luckily, I had formed a great group of friends that defended me from his shenanigans. But yeah people without posting pasts are pretty terrible. I would never have thought about that before postjack.
My first message board was the IMDb forums (RIP), from about 2003 to 2008. There was a games board similar to The Arcade, and I got to know a few of the regular posters after a while... MySpace friends, so you know things were getting serious.
it's interesting how many of us participated in text based pre-social media online communities. i've made a lot of friends and learned a lot about cool shit via message boards. interacting with people from all over the US and the world helped me understand different cultures and generally become more open-minded...
i'm still internet friends with a few of the people i met on teenopendiary roleplaying the backstreet boys girlfriends or whatever in middle school. it's truly surprising that this group of preteen girls from across the country were all exactly who they said they were.
i'm still internet friends with a few of the people i met on teenopendiary roleplaying the backstreet boys girlfriends or whatever in middle school. it's truly surprising that this group of preteen girls from across the country were all exactly who they said they were.
Dude! Same. All those moonlight Way people, I've met most in real life. Some traveled across the world to marry each other. The internet can be a beautiful place.
Post by youcoolman69 on Jun 26, 2020 14:02:14 GMT -5
Oh man. My first online message board was Goozex. I spent jr high and a lil bit of high school saving money on my video gaming by trading my old games for points and using the points to get other games. By the time I stopped trading it was on it's way downhill sadly.
Sasquatch '15 Sasquatch '16 Sasquatch '17 Day For Night '17 Sasquatch '18 III Points '21 Movement '22 Desert Daze '22 Movement '23 Making Time ∞ '23 Movement '24 Desert Daze '24 last.fm/user/stevienicks69
So I finally took a look at my helmet. I’ve just not been up to looking at it. My husband put it away when they took me off in the ambulance. It’s all beat up and cracked. That mother fucker saved my life. Going to buy a new one today. But I’m keeping it.
Post by Silver Surfer on Jun 27, 2020 13:14:09 GMT -5
I work at Lenox Mall in Atlanta which is probably the biggest, or at least very close to the biggest in Georgia. Anyway, I just left my shift and someone was driving aimlessly around the parking garage and flagged me down while walking to my car.
These people came all the way to the mall for Checkers
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 27, 2020 20:29:02 GMT -5
Going through random shit on my Youtube account and am amazed at how good the video quality of this Michael Winslow doing the Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner before the 2013 Superjam turned out. I must have been up front and had a decent camera.
Oof. I played an MMORPG for a handful of years in the early aughts and completely forgot about posting on their message board until this tweet lol. But that's honestly how I found bonnaroo/inforoo, so NO RAGRETS!
i used to use AOL chat rooms and stuff, but I guess the first board(s) I was really a part of was etree.org and nugs.net to trade CD-Rs and FLACs from shows. After a mostly disastrous first experience at bonnaroo due to being totally unprepared, I started lurking on here in 2004 for packing and camping tips, stuck around for the scoops. Took til 2010 before I actually made an account and actually started posting though.
Post by heyyitskait on Jun 29, 2020 19:15:50 GMT -5
Started with AOL chat rooms. Then I tried to get involved with a Brand New message board, but it was weirdly like a boy band message board so I noped out of there real hard.
Also used The Palace chat. That place was a real weird little gem of early internet.
Watching Diplo on This Past Weekend and he just said all American music comes from New Orleans which is what I'm always saying.
Great interview so far! Lot of fun.
Isn’t he from north Mississippi? Not that there are many ties between here and there, but I think the river and it’s earlier transient population together with white guys hearing and learning black music and vice versa developed it. I think Memphis, Chicago, New Orleans and New York (as well as Acadiana for zydeco which is also unique) are some of the main regions where either influential early American music came from or that helped the spread. I’d throw it up for delta blues in northern and central Mississippi which both are part of that progression as well. Steel guitars and the blues are what jams up in Greenville and similar places.
Watching Diplo on This Past Weekend and he just said all American music comes from New Orleans which is what I'm always saying.
Great interview so far! Lot of fun.
Isn’t he from north Mississippi? Not that there are many ties between here and there, but I think the river and it’s earlier transient population together with white guys hearing and learning black music and vice versa developed it. I think Memphis, Chicago, New Orleans and New York (as well as Acadiana for zydeco which is also unique) are some of the main regions where either influential early American music came from or that helped the spread. I’d throw it up for delta blues in northern and central Mississippi which both are part of that progression as well. Steel guitars and the blues are what jams up in Greenville and similar places.
yeah he's from Mississippi which i actually didn't know until this interview. also didn't realize he just put out a country album, which i'm listening to now.
and i agree with everything you said, stating "all american music comes from New Orleans" is an oversimplification, but it would be drastically different without Congo Square.
Regarding Diplo, in my mind I always think of him as kind of a jackass but whenever I see him live outside of Major Lazer, or listen to him talk about music, I'm always impressed. He's just a music nerd in a Vegas DJ wrapper.