Re:Communities Exist (Score 1)

I suppose it's a little harder to find real communities out there on the internet these days than it once was with bbs's and such like. But they do exist, and I certainly have been lucky enough to find some good ones. I was never around for the BBS's way back when, but I did get into the internet relatively early ('94) and I have been able to find communities of various kinds without too great an effort. For example, newsgroups can be great places for people to hang out and talk about their interests. I've made some good acquantances there, but I think it is the extremely rare usenet experience that yields a close-nit community of friends and colleagues. Online forums (such as /. and others like it) can also potentially be places for those honest-to-goodness communities to sprout and grow, however, again, it is equally rare for such things to occur. I myself have been fortunate to recently become part of a very close community of people. I have made good acquantances as well as close friends. We've been through our share of difficulty (perhaps more), but it seems to have made us even more of a community. We're not really sure where the spark that transformed us from a group of people discussing stuff, to a true community, but we are glad it happened. If you'd like to check us out, we're at http://dualboot.net/forums. We talk about computers and tech and stuff, or whatever.