Hi everyone,

Last night before going to bed, I was thinking in general as to what online "communities" really mean? People obviously come for different reasons, some to get immediate help and stay while others come and leave. For myself, I came to Dani Web because I was having problems with my laptop, which sadly had died and to get to know more about computers. I have no interest, for now that is, in the IT field but only wish to have fun and learn more about computers. Also, and most importantly, I want to get to know people and make new friends. Computers are objects but all of you are REAL people with unique and special qualities.

Just imagine if you have a problem you need to talk about or have a PC crash, all you have to do is go online and with the amount of people presently here someone will be there to help right away in real time. That is cool:lol: .....Justine

What does DaniWeb mean to me? It means that all of the allnighters I pulled while in college developing her and growing her were more than worthwhile.

How many allnighters and shouldn't you be in bed hmmm?....Justine

A LOT of allnighters (she still does them) and no, it was noon her time when she posted that

Daniweb means to me, lots of phone calls.

Allnighters: this is quite common for those in the industry of IT, specifically programming; why this is would require a dissertation on the sub-culture of "geek, techie, video game junkie, hacker, artist, perfectionist, workaholic". It is not to say we are ALL these things, but there are many coinciding areas we all enjoy.

I have the luxury of working from home with no rat-race schedule to adhere to (also, no uniform, required haircuts, no office politics interaction :rolleyes: to disstract me and waste company time)-- this is a dream-come-true and a blessing. I set my own hours (if I decide to even work at all on a certain day.) There is a "schedule", deadlines for the job to be completed, sure, but the people I work with and the people I work for are like me-- they all work from home from around the world on this 2-year long project and it seems to work out great.

If I stay up until 5 A.M. and sleep until 2 P.M.-- I get 9-hours sleep. :cheesy: It's really all relative.

Regards,
sharky_machine

I hope what it means to me is similar to what it means to everyone else. Daniweb is just a bit of lighthearted fun.

Afterall when I'm lying on my death bed, I won't be remembering the time I have spent at Daniweb. That'd be pretty sad.

Hopefully I'll be remembering stuff from my real life - like those little idiosyncrancies you share with someone you're fond of.

And if I can't remember anything meaningful, hopefully the hot nurse standing by my death bed will give me something better to remember. :p

To me DaniWeb is an emerging community, and watching it grow and bloom is what turns me on...

I'm feeling a bit pathetic right now that I'm the only one who referred to DaniWeb as a "she" ... but I meant it in the "captain and her ship" type of way.

I was just going to comment on that.

To me, Daniweb is a solely a place of learning. It is the only place I mod at, and I guess it just teaches ya stuff about people. Oh, and I can't even relate to how much technical knowledge I've learned just watching threads here.

Oh, and I think it's worth saying that when I found Daniweb early last year, it's what really pushed me into the nerd I am.

What gender do you refer to your bowling alley project as?