GeoCities wasn't my first, but it was my first away from the university's servers; and the neighborhoods certainly gave me the same kind of feeling of community and such that social networks and community type blogs provide. Looking back on it now, addressed in that way, I'm seeing that it was a precursor to that sort of thing. (Kind of like how I saw, way back when, custom IM away messages to be a kind of precursor to Twitter and Facebook status updates.)
Oh, and hi! I was crawling through old comments on my WordPress blog (http://www.klech.net/blog) and found yours on the post about Howard Tayler being a webscab, back a krazillion years ago. I'm starting reading Tales of MU and finding it very cool. I've thought that an excellent way to do fiction online (and kicking around my own ideas of how to exploit it) for a while now, and I'm very interested to see how it works for you.
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on 2009-05-05 12:34 am (UTC)Oh, and hi! I was crawling through old comments on my WordPress blog (http://www.klech.net/blog) and found yours on the post about Howard Tayler being a webscab, back a krazillion years ago. I'm starting reading Tales of MU and finding it very cool. I've thought that an excellent way to do fiction online (and kicking around my own ideas of how to exploit it) for a while now, and I'm very interested to see how it works for you.