The History of the Ledge

[David]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. I don't know the details, though, because as I said, I never read the Ledge back then. I frequented AMFM on Usenet instead, which was actually semi-bustling at the time, as opposed to the utter ghost town it is today.

Yes, a small group of loose-knit friends with evil in their hearts & sadism in their blood -- or maybe it was blood in their sadism -- began ragging on other fans & posting their squibs on a deserted ledge page. Well, one of that loose-knit group had an old Internet friend who was very clever & very playful & very vengeful. One of them was supposed to go to the Fleetwood Mac show at Mountain View in 1997 with the other, & for various reasons didn't, & the other became hurt & angry & knew about the deserted ledge page because of having been told about it (purely for reading pleasure), & so adopted the moniker "Sue" & posted to the active ledge pages the link to the deserted ledge page filled with all sorts of snarf & nastiness -- merely as a way to wreak vengeance on the other person (who posted some snarf & nastiness on the deserted ledge page) -- & then the **** hit the fan because then all the ledgies (Type A, Type B, Type O negative, aggressive, passive-aggressive, active-passive, Passover-active, & Passover-passive) found out that this small group of loose-knit ledgies was having fun at their expense, & that was that.

Dozens of problems from various corners of the world followed in the ensuing years. But with each Ledge alteration, the Ledge got harder & harder to read & use. Although by now, I think just about everyone has adapted to the smilies & the User Control Panel & the banners & the avatars & the search function & the logons & the passwords & the members list & the FAQ & the 14 different ledges & the preview function & the additional options & the file attachment capabilities & the link-parsing functions.

And that's the story of the Legend of the Three Birds of the Ledge.