Didn't know of nostalgia's roots, so wow. But I'm sufficiently proficient in leaning left of now to more than a little likely last breath in that context.
I did know of LJ, and even had an account, but it just wasn't what people my age were doing, and haven't really had teenager interaction pangs since watching “My So Call Life” for the last time sometime in the 1990s.
So I was probably still a snobby USENETaholic while you were turning livejournal on its inside out.
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