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Subject: Re:Wamtec's 20th annivesary starts next month

Date: Wed 28/03/12 19:02:27 GMT

Name: MK

Email: wamtec@comcast.net

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Thats true......cos prior to 1990 wetlook fans were all in the water closet....and most of us only came out of the water closet from the 1990's onwards.

I remember the first time I became acutely aware that I was not the only wetlook fan in the world, and that there were others too....and that was way back in 1970 when I was a mere teenager and I would go to Margate beach in the UK and walk up and down the beach watching the dolly birds cavorting in the sea in their miniskirts and colored tights.....and whatever weekend I went to the beach and whereever I saw some "wetlook action" taking place....I always saw the same old geezer with his binoculars.....that I used to call "The Captain".....cos he was an elderly gent in his 60's or 70's....wearing a captain's blazer and hat and white flannel pants....looking like Alec Guiness did in his old films. No matter where I was on the beach...and whatever day I went there....he was already there before me and watching the same girls with his binoculars. While I saw this old guy many many times whenever I went to the beach in the early 70's, and I am 100% sure he was a wetlook fan, I never spoke to him, cos I was only 15 at the time and my parents taught me never to speak to strange old men. But the irony was....he was basically no different to me....a wetlook fan....only he was 50+ years ahead of my time. I am sure he must have led a very lonely life, with nobody he could talk to about his wetlook interests. Today I have many senior citizens in their 70's and 80's whom I have known for years, and I am sure Sopping would agree (cos he is in his mid 80's) that it is much better today cos now you have forums like this one where you can chat with others and not feel that are you a freak of nature.

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Re:Wamtec's 20th annivesary starts next month

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Wed 28/03/12 15:49:27 GMT

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I think the point is that most of us have had an interest in wetlook which goes back as far as we can remember. Wetlook has been with us for centuries - the evidence is in historical texts and paintings - long predating photography or any form of electronic communication. That 20 year mark (give or take a few years) represents a turning point in awareness - the point where someone into wetlook could readily find others with the same interest. Up to that point, it was all hit and miss, with most of us having no clue that we weren't alone. After that point, if someone was into it, and had access to the internet, it wouldn't take long before they discover wetlook sites, this forum, etc..

I think it largely comes down to two factors:

1. The development of the internet and its widespread adoption by a large portion of the global population

2. The "pioneers" of wetlook on the internet who took the initiative to use the technology to "spread the word" and tap into a larger market than they could have ever found otherwise.

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Re:Wamtec's 20th annivesary starts next month

By Francis Chu - francischu@iinet.net.au Wed 28/03/12 11:54:28 GMT

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Well done MK for 20 years.

You know my interest in wetlook last a little longer than that. It started in the early to mid 80s when I saw a promo for the movie "Bringing Up Baby" which featured the great "walk in water" scene, as well as them getting out.

I recently found out there was a colorised version of this scene. What do you think about this?

I personally am not interested in wetlook in cartoon shows. It seems rather unnatural to me.

Just my thoughts, and I hope you're around for more years to come.

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Wamtec's 20th annivesary starts next month

By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Mon 26/03/12 20:36:41 GMT

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Well.....20 years have gone by real fast, cos next month marks the 20th anniversary when Wamtec video productions started. These days the youngsters take things like facebook and youtube and online media for granted, and few people remember that back in 1992 we did not even have web browsers and a way to surf the internet that Al Gore had invented for us to get our jollies.

Back when we firsted went online in 1992, without web browsers and forums around the wetlook fans all lived in isolation on bulletin board systems.... with the number one question wetlook fans had in those days.....i.e. Am I the only person in the entire world who feels this way about wetlook......Am I a freak of nature. Thankfully that question was answered a few years later....i.e. you are not alone....and there are other people who share those interests. From 1992 until mid 1995 my online friends (my first 300 wetlook contacts) all came from Compuserve, Prodigy and Delphi boards, and from the Usenet Newsgroup systems. Then in 1995 we were able to browse trhe internet more fully via the first browsers (Netscape) that you did not need to be a rocket scientist to understand how to use. This led to the opening of the very first wet & messy website verify.php?redirect=/index.php / www.messyfun.com in August of 1995, and the first Wamtec website opened one month later in September 1995. The owner of Messyfun passed away in November 2000, and the Wamtec site is currently the longest running wam site on the internet.

It is amazing to see how things have changed in 20 years.....i.e. who could have imagined in 1992 that one day you would be shooting videos with pocket sized cameras and cellphones, and that you could download entire movies in less than 3 minutes.....i.e. in less time that it takes you to run to your corner video store to pick up a rental video as we used to do in the 1980's. If I go back 30 years and 40 years ......30 years ago I was newly married and the only person who knew about my wetlook hobbies was my wife, who was my model for all my early 80's video shoots. 40 years ago in 1972....I was a teenager who could never find enough wetlook to satisfy my hunger for it, and so I used to spend WAY too much time browsing books and magazines at the public library or various adult bookstores in Soho, London....and spending too much time wandering the beaches in the UK with my poloroid camera and hanging out all day at the fountains in Trafalgar Square in London......talk about a mis-spent youth.

So.....where will we be in another 10 years.....who knows. Perhaps we will one day be able to have holographic wetlook games where you can actually project wetlook girls right into your home. For me, the 2 inventions I most want to have....have still not been invented yet...i.e.

1) I want a time machine like Dr Who has....so I can go back in time to see wetlook eras in the past....cos I prefer the fashions from the 1800's to the 1970's.......and do do not really care much for the fashion trends in the last 20 years....and

2) I want to have a DVR that can record my dreams......cos I dream up amazing wetlook adventures that are WAY better than any video I have ever seen or made.....so if I could just download my dreams.....that would be awesome.

Anyway....to celebrate our 20th anniversary year, we are giving away extra Free DVDs with all DVD orders this year.....so whenever you are ordering a dvd just email me and say "I want my free DVDs" and you can double your order and choose additional dvds that you want added to your orders.

See here www.wamdvds.com

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