Originally Posted by
Cholula
I couldn't agree more.
My thanks to those who tirelessly organize DO's as our group, expert as we all are on travel
, can be hard to please.
Just a sidebar on DO's for those who inhabit other Internet Bulletin Boards.
Is a DO unique to FT because of our mission statement as frequent travelers who know how to travel right? Or do face-to-face meets happen at other IBB's as well?
Just curious.
Actually, waaaay back when in the old Prodigy days, a group of us oranized a DO in Disneyworld to occur the first or second weekend of December, in the slowest season, to coincide with the holiday decorations. It has now grown to immense proportions and has sponsors
Before that I remember getting together with a smaller group in one of the Disney hotels with a few unofficial reps from Disney, to shoot the breeze.
This had to been in 1992 or 1993 and the groups were very small at that time - most people did not have computers in their homes and if they did, they certainly didn't go out onto Prodigy's bulletin boards.
Those people were the most like those on FT today. A little better education and a little better off than most.
I'm still friends with a few of them to this day.
I even managed to find one right here on FT - good 'ole Dan Hammer is an old prodigy buddy from the travel boards there (tho not the disney boards).