or do you think that as you're so technologically inclined, you would have inevitably found them sooner or later in this social networking era?
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or do you think that as you're so technologically inclined, you would have inevitably found them sooner or later in this social networking era?
No I hate chat sites.
I'm surprised I found PD on my first day of using the internet for serious.
Before PD, I would exclusively use the computer to play games or go onto pokemon.com or cartoonnetwork.com.
But after my 12th birthday I decided to actually browse for the first time, found PD with ten minutes, lurked for a couple days (didn't know how to post). Made an account, posted with it for about a week and a half and deleted it. Then on April 11th I made my 'pichubro' account and the rest was history.
Very similar tale. Although I learned the ropes of the internet via yahoo answers after I couldn't post.Quote:
Originally Posted by pichubro
i spent my early internet years on veritaserum.com and pokeorder.com, ironically the latter was for yu-gi-oh cards.
so many things in my life would have had to change in order for me to not discover forums that its pointless to think about
i used to go on veritaserum all the time when i was like 9 or 10. the first time i encountered the concept of homosexuality was in a harry potter fan fiction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord
perhaps rayne stumbled upon a theory about the coming book 7 in early 2007 written by an ominous internet poster going under the moniker of 'padfoot' and think to himself 'will i ever read anything written by him again?'
but probably he didn't because my theory was rejected by the site staff
*thought
huh
I started coming on PD when I was 10, starting posting when I was 11.
No, I don't regret discovering forums.
Eh, I practically lived the most epic moments of my teenage-hood on forums. Like starting forum rebellions against admins.
getting into message boards was quite seriously possibly the most beneficial thing that ever happened in my life
it's probably in the top 3 for me
that is really sad
i was very much in the standard american working class social strata with the expected norms and values when i was young, message boards were the first social spheres i experienced where it was on some level 'cool' to know things or to be intellectual minded and know how to spell right etc, if i hadn't encountered that i likely wouldn't have encountered it anywhere else so i'd possibly be some working class scum, albeit probably more naturally intelligent than the average but still with similar characteristics.
also lord stop your incessant feigning of being too cool for message boards who are you trying to impress
sounds like someone's jealous of me being too cool for message boards
:(
pretty much this. even though im upper middle class, my peers were retarded around the age i started to use forums and message boards became the only place where i could exercise intellect that wouldve otherwise been lost in my average 12 year old indian day. also hanging out with programmers and getting hands on with technical shit related to forums or web sites got me interested in computer science which eventually became my choice of career path.Quote:
Originally Posted by God
I was in a bad state of depression until I found PD.
I can't imagine what would have happened if I did not have some many positive experiences online to pull me out of it.
that's probably not true, because you were like 12Quote:
Originally Posted by pichubro
because 12 year olds can't possibly be depressed
Of course I have no way to prove it, though I will say that I never had the suicide tendency because I disprove of suicide, however there was just some days where I just didn't want to get out of bed. I could find anything to bring a smile to my face until I happened to wander onto the Internet and was greeted by EM with a ":)". You can joke about it, but that reaction from a person really changed my life and proved that people can be glad that I exist.
that's called being 12 years old, it occurs when hormones set inQuote:
Originally Posted by pichubro