Hello, slightly larger group of subscribers! Thank you for reading. In this episode of Old Internet People I have gone Way Overboard. Last time I promised a piece on Usenet, newgroups and The X-Files, and it turned out like, well, this:

SOMETHING OLD

Note: where I link through to examples of fan response, especially on hashtags, I am not responsible for NSFW content or spoilers! Click at your own risk (athough, also, don't get your hopes up, there is unlikely to be anything exciting…)

Hello to my so far tiny number of subscribers, I appreciate you all so much and send you sparkly joy and gratitude for this coming week. Welcome to issue #1 of Old Internet People.

In case you missed the newsletter descriptive blurb, a little recap. In “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language”, Gretchen McCulloch classifies those of us who were hacking clumsily around the net in the 1990s as “Old Internet People”. The description resonated, even if the name rankled. So I have run with it, and will be using the newsletter to reflect on the internet as was, as well as the internet as is. (If you want to know more about me and my background in this area, there is a summary on my website).

Despite the framing device, this has to do with weddings.