{"id":276,"date":"2024-01-08T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2024-01-20T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T13:18:11","slug":"yes-i-was-a-huge-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/yes-i-was-a-huge-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I was a huge nerd."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Something interesting that details my past as a huge nerd<\/em>. 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.<\/em> Featured image is from Ghost in the Shell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Been meaning to reply to this thread because it was interesting to me. Got a little busy. Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What got you interested in Internet forums?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>, Band of The Hawks<\/a>, Omanga<\/a> – other influential groups to me back then: Shoujomagic<\/a>, Noated<\/a> (more a database), Mangaproject<\/a> and a long list of others) I branched off into other areas of interest on the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>. I think it was from there that I also got wind of Anipike<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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