if you’re 20+ years old why are you still on tumblr
breaking news: adults enjoy entertainment and down time
Look kiddo, some of us have been hanging out on the internet with our friends since before you were born. Get off our lawn you little shit.
We had to live through emo-lyric-away messages on AIM and we had to wait to get a college email address before we got Facebook, you little shit. Respect your elders.
Look, if you’d never used freakin’ DIAL-UP to get on the net, had an account at Usenet, or used to lurk around late at night at your university lab so that you could surreptitiously print out a 65-pages long, single-spaced, size-8 font X-Files fanfic saved in Word Perfect from a website hosted in Geocities, you can all get off this lawn.
That said, I’m pretty sure someone will soon come around and school me about doing all of this through snail-mail zines pre-internet. Fandom has been around forever. Stop being such punk kids.
Or, you know, keep being punk kids — we all have to be tiny babies sometime! — but get some freaking perspective.
Where are my Xanga and my Myspace? Where are the LJs that were blogging? Where are the early Facebookers, And the early shippers sobbing? Where are the floppy disks and the dial-up slogging?
They have passed, Like hardcopy ‘zines in the mail, Like Tolkien-purists before Jackson. The days have gone down in the internet, Well beyond Star Trek Into Darkness. Who shall gather the history as the fandom passes, Or learn not to make stupid comments like jackasses?
Reblogging for artekka’s poem, which I am seriously considering printing out and putting up on my office door because I cannot resist the combination of Tolkien pastiche and fandom commentary.
