Well, there's a blast from the past

[julesjones]

Logged into my pro website for the first time in months, and lo and behold there in the most recent "visitor came from" stats was my entry in the Miss Snark Crapometer. I loved that site, I did; and it's been 12 years since she shuttered the site and left so many of us sad and forlorn.

I've had a couple of other "how long?" experiences today with looking up various things related to both fan and pro writing careers. It's been 16 years since I was first published by Loose Id. It's 21 years since I published my first fanzine. I feel old now...

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[jacey]

Ah, yes, good old Demon. We stuck with them for 17 years until - after several takeovers - they introduced a spam filter that kept deleting non-spam emails. I must have found Usenet about the same time as Helen did... and I'm still in touch with (and face-to-face friends with) some of the writers I met on usenet, both misc.writing and r.a.sf.c.