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shadowspar ([personal profile] shadowspar) wrote2010-11-30 03:23 pm

Yay for Teh Internetz and the awesome denizens thereof

How did people in remote Northern Ontario ever find out about random awesome K-Pop and Russian girlpop bands before the age of the Internet?

Oh, that's right, they didn't.

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[personal profile] torachan 2010-11-30 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! It does make it easier, though I was sharing jpop mixtapes with penpals before the internet. :)
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[personal profile] torachan 2010-11-30 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
But I meant I was sending tapes to people who didn't know about jpop. :) I was really big into penpals before the internet (whose names I got from penpal columns in magazines) and I loved sharing my love of jpop, so I would try to get my penpals into it. And most of the stuff I taped was from stuff I owned or rented myself, but I also got a couple mixtapes myself from penpals in Japan.

It's a million times easier to share music now, but it did happen before, is what I was trying to say.

But I think my experience is not typical in many ways, because one reason I never had the "these people on the internet aren't real/I can't trust anyone on the internet" feelings is that I'd had so many penpals before, so I was used to having friends I didn't physically interact with. (And I did meet several of my penpals in person, too.)