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A review by tobyyy
Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart
4.0
The first volume of a series about teens in the early ‘90s making life-altering choices thanks to the worlds opened up to them by the early internet.
I was never involved in BBS/IRC chat rooms, but my partner did and he talks about it often. My parents did get a Mac back when they cost multiple grand (1997/1998) and we got dialup pretty early on. I remember the early days of perusing message boards as a teen, the bloop bloop bleeeng bleeeng ka-boop ka-boop of dialup Internet, and the excitement at connecting with people outside of my tiny (&very isolated) sphere of influence. Kinda miss the simplicity of those days — no photos aside from teeny avatars that were not personal photos, no videos, just text and maybe smiley emoticons if you were lucky! The preMyspace days.
I loved the artwork and the different shades that differentiated past and present. Definitely cannot wait for volume 2.
I was never involved in BBS/IRC chat rooms, but my partner did and he talks about it often. My parents did get a Mac back when they cost multiple grand (1997/1998) and we got dialup pretty early on. I remember the early days of perusing message boards as a teen, the bloop bloop bleeeng bleeeng ka-boop ka-boop of dialup Internet, and the excitement at connecting with people outside of my tiny (&very isolated) sphere of influence. Kinda miss the simplicity of those days — no photos aside from teeny avatars that were not personal photos, no videos, just text and maybe smiley emoticons if you were lucky! The preMyspace days.
I loved the artwork and the different shades that differentiated past and present. Definitely cannot wait for volume 2.