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the good ol' anime collectives era
Really now, this LJ post of ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
foxleaps and the comments made me so nostalgic. I can't help but being reminiscent of the good old days of the anime collectives era. I was in college by then... about 6-10 years ago, I think. I made so many international friends, and managed to regularly keep in touch with some of them, to the point of chatting, talking on the phone, sending stuff via snail mail, and even visiting each other! The wonders of the anime community.
What has happened now? As the trend shifted to mostly social networking sites, I could only find a small number of the webmistress & webmaster of the good old anime collective sites. They mostly don't maintain anime collectives anymore, but still maintain their online presence one way or another. Most of them have LJ, so we can still connect to each other. But what I really miss is the community...
Sure, life goes on, but I don't buy it if they didn't go online. With the current technology and the fact that the internet world has been a part of daily life (I mean, I would love to see someone who doesn't have an email address nowadays! Really, even my friend's daughter who's only 3 years old has an email address!), I think everyone still goes online. They just prefer to not maintain their old online presence anymore... Or maybe they do, but I just can't find them. Who knows.
Above all, though, I know one thing for sure. Most of their priority in life is certainly not anime anymore. By now most of us anime collective owners will be above 20... and some of us are even above 30. I myself am only 2 years away from being 30.
So anyhow, if you're from the good old anime collective days, and used to keep in touch with me one way or another a few years ago, do notify me! I'd be more than happy to meet old friends :3
foxleaps and the comments made me so nostalgic. I can't help but being reminiscent of the good old days of the anime collectives era. I was in college by then... about 6-10 years ago, I think. I made so many international friends, and managed to regularly keep in touch with some of them, to the point of chatting, talking on the phone, sending stuff via snail mail, and even visiting each other! The wonders of the anime community.What has happened now? As the trend shifted to mostly social networking sites, I could only find a small number of the webmistress & webmaster of the good old anime collective sites. They mostly don't maintain anime collectives anymore, but still maintain their online presence one way or another. Most of them have LJ, so we can still connect to each other. But what I really miss is the community...
Sure, life goes on, but I don't buy it if they didn't go online. With the current technology and the fact that the internet world has been a part of daily life (I mean, I would love to see someone who doesn't have an email address nowadays! Really, even my friend's daughter who's only 3 years old has an email address!), I think everyone still goes online. They just prefer to not maintain their old online presence anymore... Or maybe they do, but I just can't find them. Who knows.
Above all, though, I know one thing for sure. Most of their priority in life is certainly not anime anymore. By now most of us anime collective owners will be above 20... and some of us are even above 30. I myself am only 2 years away from being 30.
So anyhow, if you're from the good old anime collective days, and used to keep in touch with me one way or another a few years ago, do notify me! I'd be more than happy to meet old friends :3
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ah, thank you for remembering ikkoku.net
i didn't realize that people did notice it :P
yes, i noticed that it was when i was about to abandon my domain that you started to 'establish' yours. it's very good that you still maintain it :)
well, i think people's taste has shifted away from anime community, so i'm not sure either about resurrecting AF & such.. but shoujostation looks promising. although yes, time is the ultimate problem as we grow up..
i also thought the same (about the monthly layouts), but it was the problem with me starting to abandon ikkoku.net... it was because it took me too much to maintain it, with having to change the layout every so often. i just didn't have the time, patience, and interest anymore (not to mention that as the years went by, my creativity somewhat lessened & with the fast-developing technology, i was just plain lazy to learn the new html levels).
but it's still nice to see each of you (with the same interest -- so that sure feels like a tiny anime community) around :)