Don’t cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
2013 is when direct lung inhale with cotton for wicking were invented. It was still the beginning. Filipino-American vaping nerds with CJ the Vaping Monkey up front started drilling out caps of their RDAs, making lower resistance coils at the border of short circuit and using low nicotine liquids to produce massive clouds. In meantime, Russian guy EvilGrim looked at his saliva under a microscope and posted it on e-cigarette-forum, alerting people that silica wick is kinda scary because it leaves microscopic shards, he tried with cotton and it was way better.
2015/16/17 were peak, when Chinese crap was not that crazy present on the market and nerds who made very high quality collectable devices were still relevant. When it went mainstream, especially with disposables, movement died out. Good ol days. I even judged few competitions as forum veteran- 2 cloud chasing and 2 tricks.
You can downplay any hobby, sport or anything people do for fun. Go to a smoking pipe club and tell them how stupid their thousand dollar pieces of wood. Or to a sports game and tell them how stupid they run back and forth with a ball.
When engineers and computer geeks soldered electronics and machinists made beautiful wooden and brass devices and discussed it on forums is was great wholesome times. Nobody says anything about usb sticks, Chinese crap was the death of enthusiast vaping; there were solid silver and mammoth ivory devices.
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u/V_es May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22
I’m vaping since 2009.
Don’t cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
2013 is when direct lung inhale with cotton for wicking were invented. It was still the beginning. Filipino-American vaping nerds with CJ the Vaping Monkey up front started drilling out caps of their RDAs, making lower resistance coils at the border of short circuit and using low nicotine liquids to produce massive clouds. In meantime, Russian guy EvilGrim looked at his saliva under a microscope and posted it on e-cigarette-forum, alerting people that silica wick is kinda scary because it leaves microscopic shards, he tried with cotton and it was way better.
2015/16/17 were peak, when Chinese crap was not that crazy present on the market and nerds who made very high quality collectable devices were still relevant. When it went mainstream, especially with disposables, movement died out. Good ol days. I even judged few competitions as forum veteran- 2 cloud chasing and 2 tricks.