Something has been nagging at the back of my head ever since I shaved my head and became a monk... Why do I look forward to coming to this site everyday? What is it's appeal?

There is the obvious of PerlMonks being a collection of very talented Perl programmers who are willing to help out anyone who asks.

But there's something more than that, and I think I finally found out what it is: it reminds me (strongly) of being on a BBS. Yes, an old bulletin board system. Do you remember those? They had "newsgroups" for all kinds of messages, uploads and downloads; where I first got introduced to cracked software and computer "counter" culture. And of course, the games.

The games that were only in text, unless you were lucky enough to have one with full ASCII character graphics.

Then I got on the internet. The internet blew away BBSs in terms of pictures, and information, and games.... all right at your finger tips. I was so distracted by the pretty colours of the 'net that I didn't realise that I had missed one of the best qualities of a BBS: a sense of community.

Finally, by joining PerlMonks I've found that again.

Well, those are just my thoughts. I've been known to ramble on.



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