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i remember years and years ago when k10k was king, i would look at the 'name' designers posting there and think...man...i wish i was a part of that.....I even had a chance a few times to talk with Jeffery Zeldman, and told him as much...and he just responded along the lines of 'hey man...everyone's welcome to the conversation'...but not there, and not then...it was a bit of a closed circuit with that crowd...which is fine...it was the k10k guys site...and they just let their friends talk...no problem....lol....UNTIL IT WENT DOWN! remember that folks?...so..suddenly a lot of us went looking for other places to score good links from etc....i used to wander over to holodeck73 all the time, i really liked the design of it, when suddenly i saw....Newstoday in it's place.....and was properly blown away...i think i found the place right around the time it started making people sign up to post...i believe iwas one of the first people to register even....pretty remarkable.....
on my first day i got in an argument with transfatty...and met some amazing and awesome people along the way....Biofreak, Kona, Dobolina, Piperboy and the notorious VENA....(that was his nickname on teh site right?..he was a bit of a moderator if i recall)
anyhow, suddenly everything i had been complaining about to Zeldman suddenly turned upside down....here i WAS a part of the conversation..here i was meeting up with 'like minds' from across the world.....and we did indeed help each other become better designers..the crits were as nasty and helpful then as they are now lol....and you better believe we also helped each other...
who here can remember the long distance ordering of pizza for that NTer that was hungry and broke....or the time we thought someone was suicidal and we all spent the night trying to track them down...
yes...a lot of time has been wasted here arguing about politics and religion and a lot of other garbage...but i like to think along the way we've helped each other a lot...showing folks amazing and inspiring portfolios, seeing each others work, sending fonts to each other when we were in need, and basically being there for each other over the years....after all, this was pretty much the first place i told folks about the birth of both of my kids..... what can i say....you guys have all been worth spending a decade with.....exador1
(Nov 7 10, 07:57)