It's my brain's way of indexing things. eg, If I wanted to find something related to Magnificent 7: The Series - I wouldn't bother with LJ as the MLs were more active. In reverse BSG: New Series - hit LJ, exhaust everything then scrounge the web.
It sets up a whole lot of date lines in my head. PotC? A lot of the websites that went up didn't last as long as the LJs that're still knocking around and went up before the sites. My brain puts that down as 'Failed LJ-to-web transfer'. LotR & HP predate LJ, but the truly crazeh fandom element didn't kick off until LJ and things started travelling instantly. E-mail? You had to write, send, download, read etc - LJ write & send and it instantly appeared on your friends FPs.
YT's something totally different and, imo, its popularity is down to market trends, the availability of cheap good-res video/webcams/phonecams, broadband standard speeds and editing software. People looking songs up there is down to the number of mp3 sites that got pulled after Napster, and as Napster were offering pay-to-listen-not-to-own services people effectively went 'UP YOURS!' - listened through YT & bought through iTunes.
I'm 99.9% convinced all internet history and evolution can be charted by looking at all the ways Big Business has said "The internet doesn't have people it has CUSTOMERS!" and the people've gone "Sod. Off." - look at the furore when Y!G started putting ads on the site, on the base of e-mails etc. Everyone went to LJ... Now LJ are doing it, everyone's got FF with No Script & Ad Blocker.
It's The Untouchables in real time: "Capone puts one of your men in the hospital, you put two of his in the morgue." :-D
It sets up a whole lot of date lines in my head. PotC? A lot of the websites that went up didn't last as long as the LJs that're still knocking around and went up before the sites. My brain puts that down as 'Failed LJ-to-web transfer'. LotR & HP predate LJ, but the truly crazeh fandom element didn't kick off until LJ and things started travelling instantly. E-mail? You had to write, send, download, read etc - LJ write & send and it instantly appeared on your friends FPs.
YT's something totally different and, imo, its popularity is down to market trends, the availability of cheap good-res video/webcams/phonecams, broadband standard speeds and editing software. People looking songs up there is down to the number of mp3 sites that got pulled after Napster, and as Napster were offering pay-to-listen-not-to-own services people effectively went 'UP YOURS!' - listened through YT & bought through iTunes.
I'm 99.9% convinced all internet history and evolution can be charted by looking at all the ways Big Business has said "The internet doesn't have people it has CUSTOMERS!" and the people've gone "Sod. Off." - look at the furore when Y!G started putting ads on the site, on the base of e-mails etc. Everyone went to LJ... Now LJ are doing it, everyone's got FF with No Script & Ad Blocker.
It's The Untouchables in real time: "Capone puts one of your men in the hospital, you put two of his in the morgue." :-D
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