Okay I’m going to bed and reluctantly muting this because otherwise my mentions will be unnavigable in the morning.

At a con a teen asked me if my webcomic Sorcery 101 did well on Webtoon. And I explained that Sorcery 101 began and ended before Webtoon existed.

I met and talked to Phil Katz, maker of pkzip, which eventually became simply zip files...

...browsed Mirskys Worst of the Web...

...read Suck.com daily before the first Internet bubble burst.

Do not speak to me of your Interwebz nerd credentials, child.

I was there when it was written.

Me when people cite my own work at me and ask if I’ve read it

I’ve been watching DuckTales with my kids and honestly… cite the deep magic to me. I loved it before too. Have you heard a 5 year old say Flintheart Glomgold? Recommend.

Please cite the deep magic to me, witch; I look forward to a productive conversation about the deep magic between a greybeard practitioner (myself) and an important new thinker in the field.

us every time someone mentions NewGrounds

When someone explains a technical standard I am acknowledged in

Your time will come!

Still waiting for the day when The Fall (2006) gets rediscovered and I can be like this about it.

me when people try to discuss gamergate but not #YourSlipIsShowing

Having a old white guy at a cloth mill museum telling me that power looms were responsible for feminism as enabled women to *checks notes* be tethered to a dangerous deafening machine for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week & had to ‘be nice’ to the male engineers to keep machines running for piece work

This started early with me.

Party at my place, circa 1984:

Random twink pulls LP off the shelf: “Ooh—[Disney comedy star] Bette Midler sings?”

Then minutes later: “Ooh—Diana Ross was in a group?”

I swear it was the night I got my first gray hair.

New Years Eve, 1991
The Cow Palace, San Francisco

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Pearl Jam

Do not explain Technics turntables to me. I was repairing Technics direct drive turntables before your parents were born.

A 20 yo asked me if I knew about Pauline Hanson (an Australian politician, think Marjorie Taylor Green) and I laughed at told her I'd known about Hanson since before she was born.

Then I thought for a moment and followed up with "that's not hyperbole."

For I was George Baxter’s roommate

I loved this one! It is such a fascinating world.

When u watchin the two towers, and Viggo kicks that orc helmet after motherfuckin' Judge Dredd and his bros slaughter the Uruks in the night and pile the corpses yonder, and Viggo yells kinda awkward as he falls, and she says "he actually broke his foot IRL in that take and they decided to keep it"

My partner recommended Slay the Spire to me. After I showed him my 6th weird achievement:

Him: I uh...didn't think you'd be this good at it?

Me: I was building MtG decks at 2 in the morning in smoke filled Memphis gameshops when you were still in elementary school!!!

Etched to a chorus of screaming acolytes via the pathways Demon and Freeserve.

*points to graphs*

Mmm, yes... I had this moment just yesterday.

YOUR CULTURE IS JUST REMIXES AND REHASHES OF OUR CASTOFFS, YOUNGLINGS

Erin is this a book yet please say yes

When someone starts to explain tradwives to me, a person who has been a dedicated student of the Mormon mommy blog --> Instagram influencer --> MAHA pipeline since 2007

Now THAT is a deep cut

When my students talk about social media being "new" or how social media has "recently changed everything."

me when my baby brother told me in high school he was very into this band called Nirvana I was almost certainly not cool enough to have heard of

which is how he first learned the story of his tween sisters wearing black armbands to class at their Catholic grade school the day Kurt Cobain died

I once had some Zoomer tell me that I didn't understand memes and I asked them what generation they thought invented the internet meme.