In the summer of 2003, I stumbled across Wikipedia. For a little while, I treated it like a regular Internet site, not worrying about making any edits myself.

However, by February 2004, editing Wikipedia needed to become a hobby of mine in order to keep my enjoyment of the Internet alive because several of the other Internet sites I liked in mid-2003 became less interesting, sometimes by no longer existing, sometimes by having something very interesting that was previously allowed by anyone became available only to logged-in users, and sometimes by having the site's owner no longer being able to mantain it.

Wikipedia became interesting, but it has also done a few strange things. At Wikipedia, people complain about U.S.-centrism a lot; I don't know anywhere else where people complain about U.S.-centrism.

By the dawn of 2005, however, my ability to enjoy the Internet unrelated to Wikipedia had been gradually been going in the other direction. By now, I don't appear to be learning anything new the way I did in 2004.

I left Wikipedia on June 29 2005. I might still see some Wikipedia pages by stumbling across a Wikipedia mirror on the Internet by doing a Google search. Any comments about this message feel free to put on my talk page. (Note: If you put Georgia guy on Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians, please put a link here.)

However, I came back a few months later. Georgia guy (talk) 22:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)