It all started when I was looking at
and I read their about page It really made me question why I did what I did when there were like 10 billion other possibilities if I just had some more people to work with. I guess I was just always averse to risk, but like they say you can never gain anything if you don't risk anything.
The First comment is very true.... Now (e:strip) did expand out west with (e:lisa) but I guess that didn't take off as far as people wanted... Now there are people on Here who have moved other places (The Key is if they had the computer skills) they could do local version of (e:strip) in say NYC and Washington and out in AZ and maybe Boston (think someone moved there not sure) .... What made (wasn't on it then) Facebook at the time amazing was that it was made so that people in college could keep up with each other yes kinda like (e:strip)... Imagine if (there maybe I wouldn't know) a website like (e:strip) in a bunch of cities and it was run locally and you could join it if you didn't live there to keep up on the city but everything was local... Now some how all these independent sites where connected in some way Where if someone was looking for a local site they would find the one they wanted.... I hate to use the facebook example because it is the most famous site that everyone knows. But what if say when you went on facebook it was local only. But every local site was owned by the same company and ran pretty much the same way.... I could see you setting up sites for people like (e:strip) in other cities.... Again not sure if that is what you want...Or if you just want more people to Join here... Or if you want people to come here for news before Buffalo Rising......
The idea is to look into the future and how you can change because thinking about the past, though satisfyingly agonizing, is not going to help you at all.
It's not too late... you are not 80!
You shouldn't assume that if you did something like this, your life would be better and you would be happier. The only thing that you can be sure of is that your life would have been different.
From what I remember from about 5 years ago, you wanted (e:strip) to be non-commercial. I don't think you were interested in the commercial exploitation of the internet then.
But consider this, mobile broadband is still sorting itself out. Perhaps you were meant to do great things with mobile broadband and change how people think about it forever.
Just saying. You know you have the skills.