I've been a lot of things online, from a digital monster to a talking log. My journey into the digital world started when I was a junior in high school, and my fandom of Digimon brought me to the original Unofficial Digimon Domain. I met a lot of people on that site, and I still keep contact with many of them today. My list of online friends at one time was quite large, though it's diminished over the years. I lost touch with some, others just didn't care about being online like they did in the beginning. When I think about how much the internet itself has changed since we were all starting out back in '99 and '00, it amazes me that I still have any online friends remaining. Online gaming has exploded, and the old Parachats have been replaced by messengers from AOL, MSN, even Yahoo. Myspace has connected people, the world has gotten smaller. I'm glad that I knew the people I did, they pretty much shaped my online existence. For the few remaing folks who still know me as Digidude, it's funny to realize I've used the same handle for 7 years, and its always been so generic. I never really did try to make a new name for myself, aside from Composimon, which really only stuck in my mind, I think. To most, I'm still DD. I currently try to lead our little group, though it's no easy task keeping the interests of so many varied individuals who've grown, moved on, and developed in so many different directions from our common origin. Maybe a few of them will be lifelong friends, I'd like that, but I have to be realistic, the digital world has always been about impermanance and change, and it probably always will be.
Favorite Friends
Here's a list of some of my friends alphabetically:
Auron, Britt, C, Cowgirl, Dark_Gatomon, Dark_Princess, Dark_Sakura, Desoto (GOMAMON), DigidudesGirl (DDG), Dragoon_54, Fighterdoken, FirekoRn, Giant_Tai (GTT), Joe_Kido, Lucky, mattdebat, Metabee, Miaka_Ishida, Salsa, sean, Shara, Silverfox, TAI, Taichi_Fan (TF; Selphie_Tilmitt), Taico, Tala-chan, Tcho, Teen_Sora (TS), Teen_TK (TTK), Ultimate_Evil (UE), Unimon, Vegitto, winwin95 (Winnie), Yolei_788 (Yoyo)
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