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[bloodyrosemccoy]

Finally reactivated my subscription to the Conlang Mailing List. Now I remember why I dumped it back in the day—man, conlang nerds are talkative bastards.

But since I have lost track of my syntax book from college, I gotta do something to keep my language skills going, and this is as good a way as any—plus, I get to keep track of the ramblings of other like-minded but scattered nerds! Yay for technology!

You know, I fully suspect that the majority of pre-internet geek culture consisted of sitting around waiting for the internet to be invented. Except for right before the internet was invented, when geek culture mostly consisted of inventing the internet.

Anyway, speaking of conlangs, I still have to tell y’all about that book on conlangs I read, but at the moment it’s probably time for me to go to sleep. But I will get to it eventually!

Comments

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Well, the Internet was kind of invented at large research universities, who all wanted supercomputers. Instead of funding a supercomputer for each university, NSF funded supercomputers for a few universities, then helped put the internet together so that the researchers (most of whom were geeks, yes) could access the supercomputers.

Essentially.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

What is really geeky, I suppose, is when Dr. Chuck is teaching the intro to technology course in my program, and pulls up pictures of the particular supercomputer he kept begging NSF for a grant to buy.

[rurone.livejournal.com]

That's adorable.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Regardless of historical facts, this;
You know, I fully suspect that the majority of pre-internet geek culture consisted of sitting around waiting for the internet to be invented. Except for right before the internet was invented, when geek culture mostly consisted of inventing the internet.


is full of win!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Let me tell you, gluing captions to photos of cats was a lot more of a hassle when you had to use rubber cement.

Also, metaquoted!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

And when you wanted to declare "FIRST POST!" you'd have to write it on an actual postcard and mail it as a Letter To The Editor of the magazine you'd just received!

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

... conlang nerds are talkative bastards.

This seems, somehow, eminently logical.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I fully suspect that the majority of pre-internet geek culture consisted of sitting around waiting for the internet to be invented

No, no, they did other things like grow ridiculously wild hair, write each other letters in code, practice their safe-cracking skills on anything handy, and play the bongos. OK, maybe those last three were just Richard Feynman. But if he wasn't a pre-internet geek, I don't know who was.