[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Internet and Potterama

[Sue Wartell]

<nirjhar.jain@ ...> wrote:


>

> Hi,

>     I have been wondering if Harry Potter would have been the

> phenomenon  it is today if there were no Internet?









Annemehr <annemehr at yahoo.com replied:>

I'm sure it would have been.  I heard about it myself in Spring of 1999 by word of mouth.  The only way I found HP on the internet was by deliberately searching for it<snip>



In fact, everyone whose history I know came to HP via the books or movies first, and then found the online community afterward.



Me now:

I didn't find the online resources until much later, but if I had
not been told about the books on a mailing list (on the works of
author Lois McMaster Bujold), I might never have picked up the books,
and later the movies.  The recommendations from that list are generally
well-suited to my tastes, and a number of people were raving about the
first book, so I tried it.  The rest, as they say, is history.  So, in
a very real way, I was introduced to Harry and company online.



Sue, in Ohio









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