Mildly curious how younger readers discovering my decade-old stuff now seem to refer to me as “ribbonfarm”

Possibly a generation gap thing or simply an artifact of me being much less sociable now. In 2011-14 I was actively doing blogger meetups, so got to know a lot of people personally.

I have always known you as Venkatesh Rao, but I am not *younger reader.* Also, there is no substitute for IRL. I still prefer to do meetups whenever I am in a new city, though less frequently since the pandemic.

As one of those younger readers, it’s the other way for me. I see ribbonfarm as vgr and don’t know much about the wider scene around the blog. Guessing that was more active in the first half of 2010s

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