LambdaMOO changed my life too. I probably wouldn't be in Seattle myself now if I hadn't kept in touch with a high school friend through it who ended up offering me a place to stay. I also listed my LambdaMOO volunteer experience (arbitrating, cataloging disputes, and Helpful Person work) on my resume, which probably helped me get at least one job. And since Seattle is where I met my life partners and got my teaching degree...well, it's certainly made a difference. I was immersed in geek culture in LambdaMOO, before I was aware such a thing had grown IRL. I didn't even figure out it existed until after I'd been in Seattle a while.
Church of Virus was extremely influential to the path of my life too. I found it when wandering the text-only web (using Lynx on a Mac SE) looking for some kind of spiritual or religious home for my atheist self. It got me into memetics, level-3 thinking, and better communication methods, and, again, friends in Seattle to make moving here plausible.
I no longer hang out either place, and yet there they are, having shaped me.
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LambdaMOO changed my life too. I probably wouldn't be in Seattle myself now if I hadn't kept in touch with a high school friend through it who ended up offering me a place to stay. I also listed my LambdaMOO volunteer experience (arbitrating, cataloging disputes, and Helpful Person work) on my resume, which probably helped me get at least one job. And since Seattle is where I met my life partners and got my teaching degree...well, it's certainly made a difference. I was immersed in geek culture in LambdaMOO, before I was aware such a thing had grown IRL. I didn't even figure out it existed until after I'd been in Seattle a while.
Church of Virus was extremely influential to the path of my life too. I found it when wandering the text-only web (using Lynx on a Mac SE) looking for some kind of spiritual or religious home for my atheist self. It got me into memetics, level-3 thinking, and better communication methods, and, again, friends in Seattle to make moving here plausible.
I no longer hang out either place, and yet there they are, having shaped me.