What did Internet change in your SL SW passion?

[Dlanor]

We have such an amount of infos and sharing of views concerning SL SW since Internet has spreading .
 I would have really liked to have it ten or twelve years ago (even If the net already existed, I hadn't have it),  all the more, I was even more passionated at this period than now, I felt dry at this time, now I on the contrary I feel overfed. How ironic.
 But I wonder (especialy for the eldest of you) how did you deal with the SL and SW infos before the consecration of Internet?  What did it change?

[Beebs]

Opened me up to so many more movies and facts and behind the scenes. I love it.

[Groggy]

The main value of this board and others (i.e. the IMDB) is that I get to talk about Leone's films with people who actually know about them (unlike my friends at school, for instance).  I'm enough of a fan that I probably would've gotten into Frayling et al anyway, but I nonetheless thank you guys for the hours I've spent on this board.

[Banjo]

If it wasn't for the internet i would be stuck with Leones films and half a dozen old SW video's,that is until ITV4's  superb extremely long awaited SW season in the UK!!!

[Leone Admirer]

I discovered the films, fell in absolute love with them, discovered Sir Christopher Fraylings books (who I was very luck to have a chat with a couple of weeks back) and then found this wonderful forum. I find that I am able to have great and meaningful discussions on this site, more so then with other people who do not recognise these films. I will say that this forum and its excellent people have drastically expanded my knowledge of spaghetti cinema.

[titoli]

Your question is a tough one. Really, we should be reflecting on how the internet has changed our lives, not only as related to Leone or SW. It is hard for me to remember how hard it was to get hold of an american book until a few years ago while now I can find it and order it like that. But the fact that we're in touch all over the world 24on24 with people from other countries and with different cultural heritages who share our interests and with whom we have more in common than with the people living in the apartment next door is still difficult to assess.     
One of my curiosities that I had since I first watched L.'s movies was to know how american viewers reacted to movies about a chapter of american mithology made in Spain by italians. I didn't care about what professioal critics thought about that:  I was curious about the reactions of common american viewers. Because while you can test europeans on their reactions to american movies, the opposite comes harder. Now you can do that with a click.
Thanx to the internet, to this forum and its posters.

[The Smoker]

'You don't go to Niagara falls for a glass of water'
Arthur C. Clarke on the internet

Reading bits of Alex Cox mini Spaghetti reviews in the appendix nothing short of outstanding, how he's collected information on staple supporting actors in a  'low information age'. To quote derringdo's post in the 10,000 ways to die  thread. IMDB among other things are what we take for granted.

One observation.. I'm a self confessed vinyl junkie.
One of my favourite pass times is rooting throught dusty old record shops where ever I can find them.
Ebay and internet specialist have helped me side step alot of work to obtain alot of stuff that ive spend the last ten years lookin for. But a certain factor is missing, It dosn't feal the same when a parcel comes though the post.. a 'hollow victory' perhaps.

 

[Marco Leone]

Yeah, I'd agree with all the comments above (and I share Smoker's point about missing rooting through old records.  But to me that passion died once CD's came out).

To me, ebay was a godsend, opening me up to get hold of many films I'd only ever read about.  And forums like this have introduced me to some entertaining and knowledgable people.

Yippee!!!

[Banjo]

Yeau i used to be a complete vinyl junkie with frequent trips around Brightons numerous 2nd hand record shops(although CD's are even taking over there now!) and Beanos in Croydon.I used to resent CD replacing vinyl and it wasn't until the late 1990's when i couldn't even get anything on cassette tape anymore that i finally relented and bought a CD player.
Its not the same buying old vinyl off the net and i just can't relate to the idea of downloading music from the net,i need to have some tangible sleeve or something.You can't beat admiring the artwork on a 12" record sleeve and physically dropping the needle onto the record.
Now SW DVD's thats another matter!!!

[Cusser]

For me, my wife found this Leone board sometime in the mid-late 1990s when we first got a computer and dial-up Internet.  My first post included questions like what was in the extra Italian cut of GBU, and if anyone knew the words to Story of a Soldier (the words were not readily known at that time).  It was also great to find and get European soundtracks with additional tracks not available in US, and to get SE DVDs.

[The Smoker]

Story of a Soldier (the words were not readily known at that time)

Still the same stuff..
This regularly comes up from time to time.

[Christopher]

I guess the internet is the reason why I have any knowledge of spaghetti westerns at all (which is still quite minimal so far ). The only SW's I would have ever watched would have been the Dollars movies with Eastwood because I saw those a long time ago.