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INTERNET - A CURSE OR A BLESSING ?
We've all seen it, we've all watched it coming, we've all heard about it. So, what is so special about this Internet thing? Wasn't the boards enough for us to house?
Maybe it was our egocentric egos that made it and got it coming. The boards have always been our centric face out to the public. Who doesn't remember the old days long past now then all the groups just had to get hold of a board just to release their accomplishments. Then it wasn't even meant to be trading around the boards as it later became. It has always been that way though, that the better groups somehow manage to grab the better boards from the smaller, lame groups. Now we've come to another junction on the vast freeway called informationsociety, Internet.
Now then the older guys do reconcile me quite good on this, the boards are a more distinct way of getting the wares out to the masses. But, tell me this: is it really the masses we seek? Isn't the grandeaur lost now? Still Internet do provide a very useful way of not needing any kind of more or less legal means of calling out. It surely is a good incentive. As we see the amiga scene slowly dying out more or less, still there will always be fanatics on it left as onto c64 (my, my I just love C-64!). The PC scene is totally dominated by the Internet fanatics. We even got Internet trading groups. For what good? No damn purpose whatsoever!
Instead of all these trading groups that started to pop up some years ago (some are still going strong....Risc, Malice etc, etc) we've got on our hands something that I still feel is not the real scene anylonger. On Internet it is very fun to go around the IRC and surf around the various bots and adresses that are availiable, but still if all groups have one what is the general purpose of it all? To spread the word that you can get this release from this bot on this channel if you like? Something strikes me that it is quite odd beahaviour. OK, fine it is easy,but where did the old feelings of belonging to the scene go. To grasp the meaning of being among the first to grab this and that and getting it around on Internet will never be as fun as doing the same onto the boards.
Whether i like it or not, it seems we're stuck with the lot.
ELRIC
QUARTEX Amiga / NAPALM PC / QUARTEX Consoles / AGILE C64