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Needed a dose of trees and farm, so stopped by where i grew up.
Hard to explain, but was out in the country between 2 towns. One had a stop sign and a general store. Boarded up about 20 years ago. Building still there, brings back memories.
Other town, pretty much was in ruins since the early 1900s. Not much to start with, but the only thing really left intact was a church and the bank. Which in the 50s or 60's had its 2nd story collapse. used to have a bridge across the river. It started breaking up, never bothered to repair. Was a place to hangout for us kids. Some 20 years later they just blew it up and let it fall in. I guess used to be a huge grain mill there too in the 1900s, since it was on the river. Long gone before we moved there in the late 70s.
2009 or so pretty much everything was washed away and it seems that it was all torn down and made into a huge park. Went today, hard to believe its the same place. No houses, nothing. ( now if you get back into the back country where i was, its not changed a bit.. which is nice. We didnt live in town, thankfully )
And.. there was a major state road that connected us to civilization. The last couple of years they have been converting it to an interstate like thing, destroying everything in its path ( expanding to like 8 lanes ).. very frustrating to people like me. But, along with that they are removing all the access roads to these little towns ( the ones they didnt flat out remove at least.. ). Going to be sad to watch the rest of them die. Many date back to the late 1800s..
I guess only consolation is no one is going to build developments if you cant get there. So the farmland and trees are safe.
Went to see my dads grave too. Its out there near the house.
Too much destruction around here. But im rambling now. ill stop.
( i guess this could fall under being a rant as well.. )
So, when i was a kid, i used to get toys in my cereal boxes. Early on, metal,,, then later plastic but still a 'thing' i got to pull out and keep. They served as extra incentive to buy their crap.. "free stuff.ooooo" . Even tho im as old as dirt i still eat cereal. Tonight I happened to look at the back of the box im eating out of, and its basically an advertisement to buy minecoins...
Yeah, now they just put a QR code on the box so that you can have the extended multi-universe breakfast cereal experience!
I have the money to hit up eBay and refresh my collection, but something keeps me from doing that.
I had many. Never played with. Or if they were, you couldn't tell as i was that kind of kid.
All stolen during a move from southern Florida to the mid-west. Along with a bunch of original 60's GI-Joe. AND all my 'creations' from early years that were in the same box. ( kindergarten, etc ). We used a moving company. Oh, and they also left behind a plant that had been in the family for 3 generations. By the time we got north and found it missing, it had been tossed in the garbage. ( we were in a temporary apartment down there, as our house sold before we had a new one lined up )
Every time I see a post in "Wistful Nostalgia" I always wanna flip it to "Nostful Wistalgia". If you follow me on the twitters, you might have seen me do these word flips on other things.
I had and enjoyed both Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Vroom vroom.
2022-09-30 16:32 from LadySerenaKitty <ladyserenakitty@uncensored.citadel.org>
Every time I see a post in "Wistful Nostalgia" I always wanna flip it
to "Nostful Wistalgia". If you follow me on the twitters, you might
have seen me do these word flips on other things.
I had and enjoyed both Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Vroom vroom.
How about Matchbox Wheels or Hot cars?
Fri Sep 30 2022 21:30:36 EDT from zelgomer2022-09-30 16:32 from LadySerenaKitty <ladyserenakitty@uncensored.citadel.org>
Every time I see a post in "Wistful Nostalgia" I always wanna flip it
to "Nostful Wistalgia". If you follow me on the twitters, you might
have seen me do these word flips on other things.
I had and enjoyed both Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Vroom vroom.
How about Matchbox Wheels or Hot cars?
Matchwheel or Hot Box?
Wasn't there a 3rd option back in the 70s, for the poor kids?
There were various brands I encountered in the drug store where I bought my Big Rigs trucks. I think Ertl had some less expensive miniature cars.
There were also some all plastic jobs but I don't recall the manufacturer.
For 99c a pop I could usually earn enough in chores to afford the Matchbox, though sometimes Dad had to chip in the tax.
The author postulates that the decline of the BBS actually began much earlier, with the wide availability of Fidonet echomail around 1989-1990. Prior to this period, most BBS's were focused on one particular niche, community, or theme. For example, a small area might have a D&D-focused BBS, another focused on electronics, another supporting specifically Atari-based systems, etc.
Once echomail became widespread, rather than having to ring up a number of different BBS's to converse about these various topics, people tended to pick one or two BBS's and read the echoes on all of these topics there, since many of the same echoes were available on multiple systems.
The BBS became a conduit to reach the echo communities, rather than a community itself. This decline was further propagated by the widespread availability of offline readers by the mid 90s. The BBS became a place to connect, dump replies, pick up the latest echomail, disconnect, often in an automated way.
From there it was but a small jump for the communities to reside on the internet, rather than Fidonet/WWIVNet/RIME/whatever, and be reachable by an essentially common carrier ISP.
Turns out whizkid is George Stanislav, who was well known within the OPUS BBS community for his creation of the AVATAR screen control protocol and many other enhancements to OPUS. He's local to Pittsburgh and I knew him within our local Fidonet net.
Think I might have met him when I was about 15.
I'm not sure whether I agree with his conclusion or not, and maybe I'm not in a good position to figure that out, as I left BBS's behind for good in the fall of 1993 when I started at RIT and had free and unfettered access to the internet. I missed the final chapter, as it were.
I could be wrong, but i saw a shift of the BBS communities to IRC ( myself included ). In the beginning it was very similar in community feel with the same people, just now real time for everyone, since not many of us could afford multiple lines into the house.
Then something happened in the early mid 90s, and it all fell apart, never to recover. ( at least at scale, as sure there are little pockets of it, like here, but not mainstream )