08-18-2009, 02:31 PM
I was lurking in the '30s when dealmac posted there sales on a chalkboard and the community called at least three numbers to spread the word. You could walk by their storefront (in a Woolworths 5&10) and head down to the basement to post on flanking chalkboards.
There were no Meet and Greats back then, but sometimes I'd have lunch or a soda at the counter upstairs and see if I could find chalk dust on any of the customers. Sometimes, when I spotted some, I'd try to guess which denizen they might be. I never knew which one they might have been, but was disappointed nonetheless.
It wasn't until the '40s that I started posting (anonymously of course) and I finally registered (in '99 maybe). I Posted a few times, subsequently changed the r to an ®, posted a couple times more, and eventually ended up here.
Dealmac had one of the best forum communities I've ever run across
Agreed.
I've still got one of the dealmac t-shirts they handed out at Macworld San Francisco one year.
I think I've got six, all different, maybe one duplicate.
Things grew unsettled and the milk curdled for good after 9/11 and that was that.
As tragic as September 11 was, I was also saddened at what happened to dm and the way some posters responded. It was no small shock, and it was a moment of clarity, a curtain lifting letting one see beneath the facades that some maintained.
Today I tell myself that none of those aberrated (new word) personalities are here today, and wonder what became of some that apparently didn't chose to come. There were several, Charlie ™ chief among them.
Seems like a whole different millennium back then.
There were no Meet and Greats back then, but sometimes I'd have lunch or a soda at the counter upstairs and see if I could find chalk dust on any of the customers. Sometimes, when I spotted some, I'd try to guess which denizen they might be. I never knew which one they might have been, but was disappointed nonetheless.
It wasn't until the '40s that I started posting (anonymously of course) and I finally registered (in '99 maybe). I Posted a few times, subsequently changed the r to an ®, posted a couple times more, and eventually ended up here.
Dealmac had one of the best forum communities I've ever run across
Agreed.
I've still got one of the dealmac t-shirts they handed out at Macworld San Francisco one year.
I think I've got six, all different, maybe one duplicate.
Things grew unsettled and the milk curdled for good after 9/11 and that was that.
As tragic as September 11 was, I was also saddened at what happened to dm and the way some posters responded. It was no small shock, and it was a moment of clarity, a curtain lifting letting one see beneath the facades that some maintained.
Today I tell myself that none of those aberrated (new word) personalities are here today, and wonder what became of some that apparently didn't chose to come. There were several, Charlie ™ chief among them.
Seems like a whole different millennium back then.
