Something interesting that details my past as a huge nerd. It was originally a questionnaire posted on a forum that I used to frequent. Yes, I removed some of the more embarrassing parts. No, I will not tell you what they were and boy did I curse a lot back then. Featured image is from Ghost in the Shell.
Been meaning to reply to this thread because it was interesting to me. Got a little busy. Anyway.
What got you interested in Internet forums?
Manga/Japanese comics. My main form of communication used to take place on mIRC and I still frequent it now and then these days. I used to download and help distribute scanlated manga; back then the main distribution scenes were on IRC channels. Still holds true today. Anime moved on to torrents though. After a few years of participating in a scanlation group and witnessing the start and near death of three highly influential scanlation groups (Toriyamaworld, Band of The Hawks, Omanga – other influential groups to me back then: Shoujomagic, Noated (more a database), Mangaproject and a long list of others) I branched off into other areas of interest on the net.
More detailed version is my interest in Ranma 1/2. I looked for it online because I was dissatisfied with the slow American release (I used to buy a whole bunch of comics and books back then..I was running out of space and kept things on my bed at one point). I found Noated and on noated I ran into this place, The Ranma 1/2 Project which is talked about here. I think it was from there that I also got wind of Anipike which was a large network of manga and anime related links categorized by voice actors, manga artists, series name, etc. Anyway, it was either on the pike of noated that I got wind of Toriyamaworld (I was looking for DBZ shit, I’m a huge DBZ fan too)…then I got into Hikaru No Go (among other things) since they started doing it when it first came out in Japan.
From there I got into mIRC and the board game called GO by most. I didn’t really care for or take to forums since I was using IRC which is a more immediate form of communication. In certain channels, like scanlation group channels, intelligent and long winded debates usually cropped up so I was somewhat satisfied in that sense.
A good deal of things occurred in my life in a very short period of time which cut me off from the online world for a good deal of time. But that was just IRC and the scanlation world for the most part. I still played GO since I frequented a Java based GO server that was just starting to get noticed by the Go playing world. I branched off into emulators and video games in general. Gamers stuck more to forums than IRC so I happened upon one gaming forum which had something like a debate category.
