Amiga.org Vs Amigaworld.net........Give us your views!

[MarkTime]

I would have to say my favorite website is the now defunct Amiga Web Directory, but Amiga.org is the best Amiga website around, and no fault of anyone here that it doesn't exist in those heady days of AWD...one thing I loved about AWD was the links to all those dealers and companies...things that just don't exist anymore.

When AW.net was founded it was in truth a reaction to the negativity at amiga.org.

The only problem is, that the negativity was entirely warranted...

Still the AW.net folks had a point of their own that was valid, if you feel that way (negative about Amiga), then why be an 'amigan'.  At one time, I thought it was to make this scene better, by being less susceptable to the constant scammings of the remaining amiga companies.

But that was one blip in time, when such logic was valid.  The truth is, if you aren't a mindless fanboy, then why stick around.... in the end maybe aw.net had a point.  There isn't any clever way to stick around and say its for some valid purpose.

In the end, I still like amiga.org the best though.  We (well I said 'we' I still have an account, after all)...we are just friends, who share a common experience.  Once upon a time we loved the amiga...I'm rather glad the most delusional among us are at another website.   But we are only marginally less delusional so I won't judge.

 

[MarkTime]

I sound very old when I say this, but it's nonetheless very true.  Society's ability to co-exist with one another is shifting rapidly into chaos, and it's the ability to get online and slag each other off without fear of reprisal which seems to be at the base of it all

Yes, I agree.  You do sound very old when you say that.  It's pretty much what every older generation says about the next.  Just copy and paste.  

But I love to argue with you, and why, you were making a point.  And you are right, internet is changing society.   One way this is obvious is in language trends.  Most smaller languages (less than 100,000 speakers) are dying at an incredible pace.  Only the largest languages...English, Spanish, Chinese...and about 5 others, I won't name them all, are hanging on.  And I attribute this to a smaller world...people don't live in isolation as much, and children tend to adopt the dominate language when given a choice, and English, being the codepage that all our computers have, is the biggest benefactor of technologies progress.

I know this is all boring to us internet users, and quick I better make a joke or flash a picture of a naked woman, because I'm losing the audience with this crap....

but, if someone were to guess the future, a future, with fewer languages, is one of the biggest things to happen to humanity in thousands of years, if you ask me.  I know a lot of English speakers, think this trend is great.

But it will be like killing off French in Lousianna (or Hawaiian in Hawaii).  It sounded great until after it was successful.  Then the legislature went back and adopted acadian as an official language.  (and similarly in Hawaii, they set up Hawaiian immerson schools to try to save the language from extinction) Suddenly states realized they had been benefiting from diversity...being a cookie cutter image of every other state does nothing for tourism.

And as a student of language...thinking is different in different languages...different types of thinking can be good for comparison purposes.  Still, good or bad, the world is going to march forward and change.

All we can do, is think what we can do, to influence the direction of change, for the better.