Well yeah, if there were an entrance exam, an awful lot of the people I'm glad I can talk to via email and LJ, and share cool web sites with, wouldn't be here. I just wish "learn a basic idea of how it works once you find out you want to be here" were a dominant meme among non-geeks.
Similarly, when Permanent September arrived, I wasn't thinking, "There goes the neighbourhood," so much, but more like, "Oh no, how are we going to keep up with educating and socializing them all?"
I remember being being online had its own special cachet. But even then, I was describing it to non-geek friends and relatives and wishing they would see it as a useful tool instead of as "a geek thing" because I wanted to be able to reach them by email too.
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Similarly, when Permanent September arrived, I wasn't thinking, "There goes the neighbourhood," so much, but more like, "Oh no, how are we going to keep up with educating and socializing them all?"
I remember being being online had its own special cachet. But even then, I was describing it to non-geek friends and relatives and wishing they would see it as a useful tool instead of as "a geek thing" because I wanted to be able to reach them by email too.
So I'm wishing I could convince, not enforce.