Leigh Alexander » Weird Stuff http://leighalexander.net on the art, culture & business of interactive entertainment, social media and stuff Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:56:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.10 Old Dudes And Internet Romance http://leighalexander.net/old-dudes-and-internet-romance/ http://leighalexander.net/old-dudes-and-internet-romance/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:05:00 +0000 http://leighalexander.net/old-dudes-and-internet-romance/ Things change so fast, don’t they. By that, I mean there’re some things we accept about the video game landscape that we maybe couldn’t have imagined even a few years ago, like motion controls, glasses-free 3D, or buying small download titles without packages.

The internet’s changed pretty quickly, too. I am not especially old, but as I was an early adopter and eager to get online from a young age, my earliest memories of “going online” are of a glitch-addled land of the weird, some exciting and foreign country.

This isn’t a video game article, but it’s about an adventure I had in the “world” of ancient internet — my first INTERNET ROMANCE, where I was 14 and the poor fellow was 30. It’s a fun story, so please give it a read.

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