When did you join A2K (or Abuzz)?

I think the time sequence went this way: Beehive/Abuzz was the Boston Globe's initial baby..and shortly thereafter (maybe one year or so), NYT bought the Glob. Then within a year or so formed NYTD (Digital) and made Abuzz a portal w/ connections to Wine, Golf...and advice content. etc.

The Boston Globe is owned by the NY Times Company.

RG: Yes..thanks for helping me out. Perhaps I wrote it in an unclear way as iI was unsure of the timing.. The thing I got wrong is the timing of the purchases and when NYTD owned or developed Beehive.

I learned that NY Times Company bought the Boston Globe (Affiliated Publications) in 1993 for $1.1 Billion. Then in 1995 Boston.com went online.

From that point on, when Boston.com developed Beehive and later on, when it became a NYTimes (NYTDigital portal) is a little hazy for me. I'm sure RG,you know that part. It seeemd that Beehive and early Abuzz were a separate entity...but that is where I was off-base, too.

Yes you did note that. Sorry I missed it.

I didn't pay attention to the details much back then, but I thought that abuzz almost always had both a boston.com version and a nytimes version. I showed up from NYT, but it would occasionally display boston.com branding.

yeah, thabnks RG. I recall for awhile when we entered from NY Times online-side, it had a differenty interface than the "look" of when you entered from the Globe side. Eventually, that all merged as a one look interface.

Ah. Thanks, Ragman.

I remember the well & truly established Boston contingent that came with the NYT/Globe version of Abuzz. Some were not so happy with this development, as I recall ....

Many were not happy - it must have seemed like we were hogging the space. Thing is, it did start here and we were, at one point, the heaviest ysers.

Joined Abuzz in aug-sept, 2000, I think.

I knew my last post would draw you here, k!

Once a Boston girl ......

I saw Abuzz as pretty much the Boston group's site which we were all joining, at first ...

Tue 2 Nov, 2004 09:58 pm

So, still a n00b obviously...

What year was it that the Boston crowd met at the Union Oyster house?
That was my first face-to-face.

<grin>

I went to what I think was the first abuzz meet at Flat Top Johnnies (right?) in Kendal Square.

Went to one Boston gtg..in pub in Financial district......actually met..LittleK and bunch of others...think it was winter 2000 maybe early '01... but I know it was definitely before 9/11/01. Mass Cass wasn't there.

I was at the Union Oyster House but I recall one earlier, in a bar (of course), can't recall exactly where it was but I think it was near Faneuil Hall (not Kitty O'Shea's, that happened later). Might even have been at 2 before the Union Oyster House; I'm not certain. I recall meeting Siobhan and the Seal Poets.

No, wait, the first one I went to was in I think Worcester, to meet Papabuda who never showed. But MassCass and LittleK did. We had a fabulous time, and MC gave me a troll doll that I still have somewhere.

No, Eorl, you are part of the illustrious Class of 2004. From this thread alone, I made a list of people who joined A2K in 2004:

djjd
Cycloptichorn
Shapeless
Shewolf
Ticomaya
wandeljw
spendius
Foxfyre
CalamityJane
Eorl

We all celebrate our five year anniversary this year.

at the end of my life...as I head into the great unknown... I shall say to myslef..."If I had back the time I wasted on Abuzz and A2K I could have a couple more years to live".

Sure -- but in a world without online communies, what would be the point?

Right, like sometimes people who were Abuzzing via the Glob would post urls to other threads that, when clicked on, would show a Boston Globe (or maybe Boston.com) masthead and different colors (lighter , as I remember).

The colours were lighter - the pic I've posted on the previous is from boston.com (I think).

Yeah, I posted before I looked back at last page and thought the same thing. The NYT view was a very dark navy blue.

Ahaha, Sozobe- that reminded me, the other day I saw this and thought of you
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introducing-Feminism-Introducing-Susan-Watkins/dp/184046058X