# Getting into it

## and maybe missing the point

I am still new to the tildeverse. Of course, when I log on to tilde.town, my thoughts and feels are turned toward the experience of using it. I really enjoy this place. I am old enough to remember cruising the world through gopher. I forgot all about it until I looked at the feels publishing options and reailized that gopher still exists.

I was 8 years old when my mother bought our first PC. It was 1991. I *think* it was an intel 286 (I can't remember). It ran DOS, but it booted up into a TUI of some sort. Something of a cross between a launcher and a file manager. My mom bought it exclusivley for entering her geneology. The program she used could connect to the LDS church's geneology server, so of course it had a wonderfully noisy modem for dial-up access.

My mom used her PC for geneology. I used it to explore a mysterious digital world. I think I still miss that sense of wonder and mystery.

Here in tilde.town I have rediscovered that sublime feeling. I love the sense of nostalgia. I relish the modern possibilities.

Maybe at some point the *deja vu* will pass. I think at some point, this place will become just another service that I use. That would actully be a good thing. The point of participating in something like this is *the participation*.