I was on Compuserve and ended up on aol because of gaming. I was fatoudust there because everybody on the internet was supposed to be geeky and get fractal math references. I had multiple accounts and kept a notebook with lists of online minutes, somewhat because of chat, but mostly text based rpgs. It's kinda funny to me in a way that we're back to metered data usage. We may look back on the years we're closing out now as the halcyon days of unlimited data.

When I went to NWMSU in 90-94, there was a while big deal about it being the first "electronic campus" so I started out with my student email, then I had Jan-May without email at my folks house (NBD -- I used a LAND LINE (gasp) to call people on their LAND LINES when I wanted to chat, and used my dad's Earthlink if I needed to surf) and then I started grad school in 95.

I have an aol name because of AIM - but that was the only part of aol I ever used. (I had my NIU email address - I've had it pretty much since grad school.)

The Buffistas were my first internet experience. I was such a late adopter that my first home computer was a ruby imac,and I used to print off pages of buffistas at work to read at home.

Hey, LeN, did you get that fancy stylus yet? eta: This looks interesting.

I was online first in university. I was "phoenix" there. My friend ktrigg told me to go with my name, and he's been ktrigg everywhere for twenty+ years, but if you can't be a phoenix at 18, you're not really living.

I should have been ita more places, and ita [lastname] a couple fewer. That's where most of my error (i.e. non-resume) appearances are.

I didn't have a choice in college, I was tskared, and I still use that some places because I can remember it and nobody else is gonna want it.

ita,

I have used it a bit, but not enough where I can really give a review. I like it, it gives me a lot of control, but there is a faint click click as I write.

So, my quick assessment is that I like it but I wish the click wasn't there.

Do you think it gives a better line than a traditional stylus or a weird one like in my post above? I am on a mission.

Would you draw with it? How does your handwriting look in comparison to a pen?

hmm.

the programs I use, you can control the thickness of the line, so I would say it provides more control. easier to see around it in comparison to other styli.

Paging NoiseDesign! A while back you were talking about selling off some of your old machines - do you still have any of that stuff around?

Yes, I still have some systems for sale. I haven't had a chance to do anything about selling them since I've been so buried with work.

As for online services, I think I briefly had an AOL account, but only to see what it was all about. I did BBS systems in San Diego from 1981 to 1989. When I moved up to Spokane, there was no option for a local ISP, so I had Compuserve for a while, when the user names were just strings of numbers. I then had a Delphi account so that I could get shell access to the internet. I know at one point Netcom was my primary ISP, then I had a local ISP in San Diego between undergrad and grad school, it was CTS.com, and you know it was back in the dark ages of the internet because they gave me a static IP address on a dial-up account. I kept that account long after it made sense to keep it just because of that coveted static IP.