Mike<p><a href="https://shonk.social/tags/This" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#This</a> is my <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/introduction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a><span> post, Sharkey edition (it's basically the same one as I posted when I joined mastodon.me.uk).<br><br>I am, like many others here, a refugee from other social media sites. In my case, it all started way back in 1990 when I did the </span><a href="https://shonk.social/tags/OU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OU</a> DT200 information technology course. This gave me access to their CoSy based conferencing system. From there I explored various <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/BBSs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBSs</a> before joining <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/CIX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CIX</a>. From there I migrated to <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> and <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> via <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Usenet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a><span> and alt newsgroups. <br><br>My posts are likely to cover a variety of areas such as: </span><a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Cats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cats</a>, <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Photography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a>, <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Cooking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cooking</a> and <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/Running" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Running</a>. Now that I've got a few more characters to play with I may also post the occasional <a href="https://shonk.social/tags/rant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a>.</p>