Journal Idlechat's Journal: Anouncing the creation of IdleChat 8
About 4 years ago, I particiapted in an fidonet-based echomail network [their site isn't useful - don't bother visiting]. Those networks used to flourish during the days before the internet.
What's echomail? The thing that resembles echomail the most is Usenet, or the newsgroups, besides that when you post a message in echomail, it doesn't have to be adressed to ALL (or to the one you're replying to), unlike in the newsgroups. Another difference is that people usually read messages in the order of the creation, instead of the thread order (similar to flat mode here). And another thing: echomail is typically read using a dedicated DOS or console program, using a fixed-mode font, and not using a browser. Using that program you can move between messages using the arrows, so no mouse is involved.
Echomail was spreaded using BBSs and modems, and it had an offline nature. You usually downloaded all the messages through compressed packets, and after that the modem got disconnected and you could sit and read the messages. It required some technical knowledge, so it typically didn't have a lot of girls.. and when I first got into the 'net, I was surprised to see so many girls on IRC.
But enough of this history lesson. The thing that matters most is that it had one "folder" called I_IDLECHAT, where people wrote nonsense, like what they ate today, what people they met, how their tooth aches and other stuff like that. And this is what I wish to recreate.
You see, there's something similar to Idlechat here, which is Trolltalk. You can write about nonsense there and usually you won't get moderator warnings (like in echomail) or downmods (like here), but it's a bad place. People do crapflooding or just write rotten stuff there. So, I wish to recreate Idlechat, and it will be recreated here, in my journal. I will add as friends people who tend to write in the same manner as me (Com2Kid is the first to come in mind, although I'm going to be much worse), and we'll have a network of Idlechatters.
Hurray for us!
Hmmm... (Score:1)
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1)
Are you an huggable person?
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1)
By what criteria do you choose your friends list by?
The criteria (Score:1)
For some reason I thought that you do the same type, but by looking again in your journal it seems to me that you write mostly phylosophical stuff, which is different (I didn't read all of it.. I'm a lazy person and besides I'm busy studying calculus now).
So you're not really an idlechatter, but I'm not going to remove you from my list. I want your textual entity near me.
Re:The criteria (Score:2, Interesting)
I almost wrote a journal today on how I was enjoying a nice juicy orange. But decided not to.
So you're not really an idlechatter, but I'm not going to remove you from my list.
It's not my choice to make, whether you choose to click a link or not to make me a friend. Wait, that last sentence came off a little harsh. What I mean is, you choose to click a link, I (in my ever inquisitive fashion) wondered why you did. So, now I'm interested in seeing where you take this idle chat idea.
but I'm not going to remove you from my list, I want your textual entity near me. ;-)
Wow, I made textual entity status, neat.
Re:The criteria (Score:1)
I almost wrote a journal today on how I was enjoying a nice juicy orange. But decided not to.
It all depends what's the purpose of your journal. You may want to document things you enjoyed, or you want to interest the audience.
When my "other" journal was young, I wrote total nonsense there, but after a while I began gathering fans and I don't want to "let them down", so I can't write nonsense anymore there. That's why I created this account. I think it may be useful for me to record certain events here.
So, now I'm interested in seeing where you take this idle chat idea.
Is that past or present? I already wrote another useless entry today.
Wow, I made textual entity status, neat.
Textual entity (as opposed to a real person) is the most basic thing you can have on the net. I wouldn't consider it a status, since it's so simple to create. (Having a lot of fans, though, can be considered a status, provided they do answer your journals)
PS: I like what you did with Squeak The Beast.
Squeak (Score:2)
Indeed. I think that it it time to create the Fans Of Squeak The Beast Society (a.k.a. FOSTBS and pronounced "fostibs"). Membership qualifications include:
-proof of ownership of (or should we say "close association with") one massively anthropormorphized inanimate object
-memorization of the STB song (I haven't written it yet, gimme a little time here.)
-and the ability and willingness to make squeak sounds in three keys in a public place.
A yearly meditation will be written on the moral and philisophical implications of Squeakhood. Perhaps the first one should be about Starbucks.
Of course anybody privileged enough to have spent significant time in The Presence need not bother with other qualifications.
We bow in wonder before Squeak The Beast.
Rustin
Re:Squeak (Score:2, Interesting)