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SteveDallas · 03-17-2003, 08:38 PM

You know, our very own cellar is not a bad representation of "the good old days" of the Internet. While we now have a web interface with smilies and photoshopped stuff, the bulk of the interaction is text-based. And what content there is here is generated by the denizens, much as was (and still is) the case on Usenet. We're not coming here to read what some "content provider" has put out, we're coming to read what other people have to say.

So tell us more about the Spirograph link, pastrami. I really like the Spirograph, or liked at least. The ones they have now are pale imitations of the set I had back in the late 70s--not as many wheels, and harder to use because they move around. (The old sets actually came with a piece of cardboard and some pushpins to keep the rings in place, something which is far, far too dangerous to expose modern litigious consumers to.) But I've never thought of the Spirograph as a touchstone of any kind of generational divide.

03-17-2003, 08:38 PM	#4
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	You know, our very own cellar is not a bad representation of "the good old days" of the Internet. While we now have a web interface with smilies and photoshopped stuff, the bulk of the interaction is text-based. And what content there is here is generated by the denizens, much as was (and still is) the case on Usenet. We're not coming here to read what some "content provider" has put out, we're coming to read what other people have to say. So tell us more about the Spirograph link, pastrami. I really like the Spirograph, or liked at least. The ones they have now are pale imitations of the set I had back in the late 70s--not as many wheels, and harder to use because they move around. (The old sets actually came with a piece of cardboard and some pushpins to keep the rings in place, something which is far, far too dangerous to expose modern litigious consumers to.) But I've never thought of the Spirograph as a touchstone of any kind of generational divide.