[ExI] How do you make new discoveries about what's available on the internet?

[John Grigg]

Will Steinberg wrote:
"Try having thousands of bitcoins in 2012 and spending them all on
drugs......"

Will, was this you? Or someone else? What is the story? I have a friend
whose wife threw out an old hard drive (can't have old junk lying around
the house collecting dust) where he had the information stored for his
Bitcoins. Years ago it would have been worth half a million dollars, and so
I'm sure he regularly does the price calculations in his head as the price
goes up and up...

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:56 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Try having thousands of bitcoins in 2012 and spending them all on
> drugs......
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020, 1:54 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I am not an IT professional, but like many people, I have been on the
>> internet a long time for a combination of pleasure and work. In my case,
>> around twenty-five years. But I tend to be somewhat of a stick in the mud,
>> in terms of doing the same things, and visiting the same forums and
>> websites.
>>
>> I recently "discovered" Eventbrite and Zoom. I had used Eventbrite a
>> little bit in the past, but it had never clicked for me. But now with the
>> pandemic in place, I was amazed by all the seemingly impressive virtual
>> Halloween parties and events going on, via Zoom and other similar
>> platforms. I was frustrated because my computer cam had just died, and so I
>> missed out on these events that I learned about at the last minute. With a
>> category five hurricane bearing down on me, here in the Philippines, going
>> to the store was not much of an option. But I have now signed up for
>> various activities on Eventbrite, from everything from book reviews, to
>> lessons about time management and self-discipline. I also want to
>> experience a virtual escape room or haunted house with my new family, to
>> see just how fun they are.
>>
>> I realize we are all very different people, but what websites do you love
>> and recommend to others? And most importantly, how do you stay aware of the
>> latest cool websites and things going on within the internet, for not just
>> work, but entertainment?
>>
>> And to this day, I regret finding out about Bitcoin early during the
>> spring of 2010, but being clueless about it's future worth, and doing
>> nothing. But then that may have been a once in a lifetime opportunity. I
>> guess none of us want to be left behind...
>>
>> It seems like I regularly come across new websites, especially regarding
>> pop culture, that are fairly well established but still new to me. But like
>> Spike, my favorite haunt is probably Youtube. I remember him once raving
>> about how much he enjoyed it.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> John  :  )
>>
>>
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