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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Sonnet Central RIP
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I was thinking back on those primitive days of the Internet when writing
another friend this morning, and it looks worth archiving:

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Yes, I COULD have become involved with Usenet and the primitive days of
Usenet but the 1990s were a time of hanging on to the primitive ways of
the 1960s-1980s I grew up with:

1) Lots of snail mail (the small press comix and poetry network)

2) I stuck with using pay phones all through the 1990s, finally getting
used to cell phones during the 2000s prompted by years in the pizza
delivery business.

I had at least two friends who jumped from snail mail to Internet really
early and tried to convince me to jump in but I held out until June 1998
when I got online while hanging out at the CVCC library I think my first
post that day still exists, I'll have to check on it again soon.

In 1995 I jumped almost fully into the local scene, quickly moving away
from the snail mail small press, to focus on the local poetry scene, the
Brewery coffee shop (which pretty much evolved into Fountain City
Coffee) Jumpin Java, all that. If I listened to music it was almost
always local stuff.

My poetry readings eventually evolved into songs, but that evolution
really took years to happen.

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