*watching The Matrix* Me, high school: “This is incredible and explains everything!” Me, now: “Okay, so, Neo gets a call from Morpheus — who he really does not know at all — that tells him to meet under a bridge in the rain, and he’s all like, ‘oh yea, sure, seems legit.’”
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I think it's interesting to consider how the tech constraints of BBSes helped create the culture around them. There was both a spatial and temporal limitation, which we now realize may have been a *help* as opposed to a hindrance.
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Compare/contrast the culture around BBSes, which were almost always local and maxed out at ~4 simultaneous lines, to the giant, national AOL chatrooms circa 1993/94. Instantly a completely different kind of youth culture emerged on AOL (sexting, warez, CC phishing, etc.)
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