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Meeting people on the internet (on Urban Honking)

zinzin
edited February 2013
The latest from Adrian Chen: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/dont-be-a-stranger/

Who is this "Austin"!!???!?

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  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2013
    And why didn't he write it "austin?"
  • 12341234
    Urban Honking, The Home of True Internet Friendships
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    dv
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "mostly twenty-somethings"

    those were the days
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    edited February 2013
    I wish he would've called him Corpus Christi
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    VERY AWKWARD IN REAL LIFE (getting better tho)
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    VERY TALL AND VERY TAN IN REAL LIFE
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    The tallest, tannest, beardiest, most married man
  • kdawgkdawg
    God I forgot that adrian chen was an urho person, now that i know and love him for stuff like infuriating reddit.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited February 2013
    I know! He done good, baby done good out there
  • MatthewMatthew
    One time I saw him at a bar in Brooklyn.
  • LelandLeland
    He reTweeted me once....
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    He *loves* bars in Brooklyn (best friend inside info)
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    edited February 2013
    I just recently rewatched the ULTIMATE BLOGGER episodes featuring Adrian and Austin and they were GREAT. Such a good comedic duo. They added so much. Remember that cool "New York" tourism video they made?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Yeah, I'm still bummed that his big city dreams ended our ability to easily collaborate. Still haven't found his replacement yet.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    ADVERTISE ON THE INTERNET
  • freddyfreddy
    I really enjoyed that article. It reminded me how back in maybe 2003 or 2004 I went to Europe and ended up hanging out with a guy in Amsterdam and staying at the house of another guy in Berlin that I knew from Flickr. Because they took pictures of the food they cooked (one was doing a project to cook every dinner for a year and the other was a cheesemonger). And because I left comments on their photos, and so somehow we were friends enough to hang out?!?! It is pretty unfathomable to me that this happened. Yet both are very cool guys and we keep in mild touch, and if they were ever in Portland I would be stoked to take them out. Those were early social network years, to be sure.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited February 2013
    Also like how I met my husband on a message board for enthusiasts of K Records.
    Talk about unfathomable now!!
  • LelandLeland
    It still happens to me all the time. Before the internet, it was like: "Oh you clipped that photo out of a magazine too?"
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2013
    - Exchanging phone numbers with people met at school, mall, skating rinks, parks, streets (pre-1995)
    - Local city service phone line that was like pre-internet for phones.... codes were listed in front of phone book and would give you pre-recorded messages on everything from live theater, weather, traffic, horoscopes (198?-199?)
    - Calling in to the radio for requests, contests, flirting with the DJ (1988-1994)
    - Prank phone calls on the reg (1990-1998) (Heaviest usage in mid-late 90s)
    - This crazy channel on local TV that had games on screen that you could call into and play over the phone (1993-1995)
    - CB Radio (1993-1997)
    - THE BOX (long live its reign)
    - Prodigy message boards (1994)
    - AOL chat room phone calls and letters (1995)
    - BBS meetups at Denny's (1996) (multi-line)
    - BBS meetup at movies (1997) (single line) (first time scanned photos involved)
    - Zines, letters, internet-based purchases/freebies through USPS (1998-2000)
    - benicetobears.com/BIG (1998-1999) (got first paid illustration/design work from traffic to this site by dot com boomers)
    - Web directories of musicians/artists/font designers/weird youth (1998-1999)
    - Diaryland (1999-present)
    - Livejournal (2000-2012)
    - Makeoutclub (2000-2002) (Like BYOFL for road trips)
    - K Board (2003-2005/6)
    - UHX (2003-present)
    - Friendster, Orkut, MySpace (2004-2010)
    - Homeroom@PNCA (2006-2009)
    - Tumblr (2007-present)

    I love to think about how the internet is just another step in a chain of meeting people.... for me, it makes sense to think of radio>phone>mail especially. But for others it could be hobby publications/party lines/college listservs/personals/classifieds (accompanied my dad on lots of classifieds meetups via "Nifty Nickle" based on his interests in power tools and iguanas). The CB radio was a precursor to the computer screen. I met my Flaspar partner in crime Cody by putting up a sign that said like "robot lover looking for a friend" on the bulletin board in the record store Benway Bop.

    I am not on facebook but I enjoy instagram and twitter a great deal and I think I benefit from facebook because it makes people more inclined to use those services.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2013
    deleted thread derail of men's recovery project at benway records
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2013
    I moved to Portland because I met Zac because me and my friend went to a show that her LiveJournal buddy invited her to

    I met my boyfriend because after college we reconnected on tumblr
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    deeper
  • LelandLeland
    I was married to somebody for 17 years because of her bookshelf.
  • LelandLeland
    Not sure that's an endorsement. YMMV.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "Local city service phone line that was like pre-internet for phones"

    I surfed this hard. Joke-of-the-day every day. Choose your own adventure. School lunch menu.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    reminds me of TMBG's dial-a-song. Answering-machine-as-proto-internet-kind-of-thing
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    I met my tall-drink-of-water partner of 5+ years THROUGH THIS VERY UHX PLATFORM, because of a video I posted on vimeo. MZ posted something about it here (before I knew UHX existed) and Bill_McKinley got in touch.
  • kdawgkdawg
    edited February 2013
    yt & gary's love story was crucial in making me feel not insecure about my own internet love affair. Although if i hadn't met hugh on the internet, it would have to happen eventually-we just had too many mutual friends. both of us had lived with james sumner?!? detail that i always find hilarious

    also, MAKEOUTCLUB! I saw adam play for the first time at a makeoutclub party at the meow meow. It was really good! I wanted to stay longer and watch more but my friends were being lame and wanted to bail after calvin played. July 2001! was anyone else there?
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    Maybe I was there? Did Little Wings play a cool reggae set with Adam on drums at that show?
  • kdawgkdawg
    I don't think there was a Little Wings set. COCO played, and some band with an emo-sounding name. Adam was set up in the snack bar.
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