Some New News

News!

 Something sorta fun to talk about today - looks like a bit of a "blast from the past" here on WYR.  I mean, I know the entire blog is pretty much WW memories - but this is something slightly different than my usual bit and bobs.  One of WhuddleWorld's original staff might be stopping by for a visit.  She worked with me in the office and was a friend and neighbor back in the early days, shortly after we launched.  She was also a fan - but I'll let her talk about that when she guest posts.  We hadn't spoken or seen one another in almost a decade and then, unexpectedly our paths crossed again little over a year ago. More recently we had occasion to reminisce and discuss our WhuddleWorld days and that of course resulted in me inviting her to post here on WYR, to which she agreed! Yay!

 Definitely will be a fun read for those of you who are WW nostalgia fans.  This will be our first "Where are They Now?!" sort of posts.  Who knows, maybe we can do more of these in the future.  It would definitely help out if we can grow our reader base - hopefully that will incentivize future guests if they know they have an  audience that is genuinely interested in what they have to say.

 Also, one more droplet of interest - one way I thought it might be fun to help the blog's audience grow  AND also show appreciation for those who have been dedicated WW fans from the start - is to have some contests with prizes. The prizes will definitely be WhuddleWorld related - but I'm still working out the ideas for those.  More coming soon!  But for now, watch for our guest visitor!

 TTFN,

Dee 

Phones (Sorta)

It's been a long time since my last post here on WYR - sorry about that.  Life got sorta crazy after Christmas and my time online for the past few months has been almost zero.  But things are starting to settle down again and I'm able to get back to my online pastimes and interests.

I recently, on this side of the monitor, had to finally let go of my landline phone (or POTS lines as they're also known).  Basically it is a phone that IS wired (old copper phone lines) and works even when the Internet and cell towers aren't working.  They also have far better sound quality and continuity than today's cell and VOIP phones...  But whatever you think about POTS or traditional landlines, good or bad, doesn't matter as they are being discontinued everywhere.  Anyway, because of all the phone switching, it brought up some fond memories of our attempts to create a "phone system" for WhuddleWorld.

Merry Christmas (and Happy Holidays!)

 I haven't posted in quite awhile - will try to add some new content after the New Year - but for now, just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Who's Who in WhuddleWorld - Part 3

 This will be the last post in the current series of "Who's Who" in WhuddleWorld ending with three more charming characters from WhuddleWorld's earliest days.  Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. I'll try to do a series on "Where in WhuddleWorld" highlighting various shops and places sometime before the holidays - though no guarantees.  I have some other things in the works that have been taking up a great deal of my time and not sure yet, where all that will land and what my free time will look like - so that would be the caveat to my hopeful timing/timeline. Heh. 

Who's Who in WhuddleWorld - Part 2

Continuing from the previous post on this topic, here are a couple more characters from the good ol' days of WhuddleWorld.  As I said in that post, I think the document these descriptions were taken from was some sort of presentation "rough draft" or something - but I do find the character descriptions amusing.  They are a bit "uptight" in their own way.  But still fun to visit as a blast from WhuddleWorld's past...