ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

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What is the cut off point for ILX history? What defined ILX this decade historically?

hmm beyond generally "mellowing out" it's hard to separate out from general changes in internet and discursive culture in the same period imo.

What is the cut off point for ILX history? the Luna incident

What defined ILX this decade historically? polls

the eternal now, signified by a lack of tumult (or relatively predictable tumult) in the lives of long-term posters

symptoms include drop-off in number of posters or frequency of posting as people end up more engaged in jobs/family/obligations, less interest in bombastic modes of argument, and the recycling of previous discourse around genre conventions

not being good or funny

What defined ILX this decade historically? trump, brexit, the golden state warriors, dmac complaining

yeah p much

but also some really great new/young posters who don't have as much of a "brand" b/c of not being involved in so much tumult.

radio button polls started in the late 00s no? like circa 06, 07 i wanna say. think ilm had pretty much polled every major label album ever released before 2010.

yeah I think you're right about the polls being earlier

there used to be FAPS like every single weekend I remember.

the elite dreams of ilx have basically been fully realized, nothing more to attain

there used to be FAPS like every single weekend I remember.

there still are, ppl just don't post about them

queens used to be closer than it is now

heh, I guess it's easier to coordinate by texting message groups instead of public message boards.

everything used to be closer, I remember not even leaving the apt to go out until 11:30pm most of the time.

In Orbit - yes i'm baffled/amazed at the number of Euro tourists too! It's like there was a really popular German TV show set in Bed Stuy and they're making a pilgrimage or something.
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NYCILX had like separate golden eras when lots of noize bd ppl used to hang all the time, also the adam schefter/ghostrider/mookieproof/jtm/dayo/chinavision/morbs/max etc era which sort of lingers, I'm out of touch now but I vaguely see ppl getting together or fb or w/e.

I owe a former candy store denizen an email actually bc she just got in touch a bit nostalgically and I do have magical memories of some of those times.

there was the time period where geeta, nabisco, allyzay, yanc3y, felicity, bnw, hstencil, alex in nyc, jbr, et al were always out and then overlapping with the noize board. Bars got very expensive.

the elite dreams of ilx have basically been fully realized, nothing more to attain

Satori, it's always nice.

i remember i was going to meet up with some NYCILX/noise peeps at boredoms 777 but i got too wasted and idk what happened

old ILX = AIM era
nu ILX = FB era

(ie slice it doon the middle at around the 2007-2008 point)

xp that sounds like a standard boredoms experience tbh

is the nu-ilx dividing line revisionism. the old divider used to be "back when anyone could start a board" or something.

i met a lot of the nyc ilxors they were dicks

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feel like the creation of 77 was a dividing line

i forget that there are people who are not on 77

mookie - that happened around 2007 too iirc

77, never been interesed in it, what's the point of it?

You’re not on there? So weird. We talk about you a lot.

xp. de-indexed, you have to ask for an invite. so not as public as rest of ilx - there are some de-indexed threads on the rest of ilx of course

Yeah, but why is it there?

because crut discovered it and then they gave the board to him, iirc

the privacy/deindex part came later I think?

People can talk about things they wouldn’t want on a public forum. Still risky but you know

OK. I'm not going to do that anyway so it's not for me.

I can see how that would potentially have changed ILX radically.

RIP Daddys

I was at the Big Hunt the other week and felt nostalgic for glory days if ilxDC.

Also nostalgia for the sandbox days. When was that?

77, never been interesed in it, what's the point of it?

― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.),

the second comma is almost pushed back through my entire screen from the pivot performed on top of it

2001-2003 feels like a distinct era to me

(xp) Don't know what you mean?

I am joking about you saying you have no interest in X and then immediately asking about X

I er think that might be a rhetorical last clause there, sic

Tom's followup suggests he was asking in good, if disinterested, faith

the joke stands either way though!

Good, if disinterested, faith sums it up. Mostly I think I hate the idea of asking for permission to join something or be nominated to join something, or whatever the process is.

the creation of 77 was not it, tom always acts completely bewildered by it and thats a decade old now

the mod action against ask chaki is the actual answer

modern ilx is the result of that decision between two factions (wrong choice obv)

xp it’s about as much of a request as asking a friend if they’d grab you a drink while they’re already going to the kitchen

I can see how that would potentially have changed ILX radically.

If you mean bcs of the potential for ppl talking behind backs there was already fuckloads of that going on thanks to AIM chats, but anyway.

Yeah, well, I wasn't involved in any of that either. The idea of a second, exclusive, invitation only board running parallel to ILX has got to have had some impact surely?

nope