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We’re living in interesting times when it comes to history.  There’s a huge number of people who study the past.  Anthropologists, Archaeologists, Historians, and all sorts of other folks who piece together what humanity was.  It’s not an easy job – the farther you go back in time, the less information there is to work with.

Looking forward though, those people who’s job it is to re-construct the past is going to hold some interesting new challenges.  There may not be a lack of information – there may be an over abundance of information that makes it more interesting to sift and narrow down information on a single social group.

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Recently I’ve been hit by a big wave of nostalgia.  The source of that nostalgia is Twitter and Tweetups, and in particular the WichiTweeps group.  It reminds me a lot of days I thought were gone – the old BBS era.

I got into BBS’s back in the day when online communication wasn’t pervasive yet.  Internet access to the home wasn’t even a thought yet – there were only 10,000 hosts on the Internet back in 1987, and not a single one of them hosted a website.  Tim Berners Lee hadn’t developed “The World Wide Web” yet.  And being connected to another computer via a modem was a novelty at best for most people.  And yes – at the tender age of 15 I was starting to get connected to BBS’es via my Amiga.  I’ve always been a geek.  Now I’m just an old geek with stories like “back in my day, we connected to ONE other computer at 1200 baud!  And we liked it!  Now you damned kids get off my lawn!”

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Midnight Ryder’s Blog has been abused and ignored for too long now.  One of my New Years resolutions is to start updating this at least every two weeks.  Not only am I going to update it, I’ve decided to throw my hat into the podcasting ring – every update will have an associated podcast with it.  Or at least that’s the plan at the moment.  If I don’t like the podcasting quality, or just plain get bored with it, I might quit doing it.  I won’t know until I’ve tried it for a while.

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