I know it was in the early 80s, on my first apple on the noisy modem Ah, those were the days. We ran at BBS in the late 80s. It never seemed odd to me that I would meet people that I knew "online" until recent years.

I'm also sort of floored by the amount of criticism I've seen about the book, by people who haven't read the book.

This can only be a good thing, honestly-- it's not about your book, it's that lots of people have very personal relationships to their boards that no one has written about, really. You're in an untapped market and people are using the book to talk about something they don't get to talk about. There's metafandom, but there's not really metaboards. It's all part of buzz that gets people to pick up the book!

I know it was in the early 80s, on my first apple on the noisy modem Ah, those were the days.

Huh. I got my first "real" computer in 1985. I knew what modems were but I didn't see what the point of having one was.

Thanks, JZ, I hadn't read that first one yet.

Online since 92 or 93. Immediately smitten.

I bought a one-way plane ticket from CT to TX and then drove back home across country with an online friend in '95. My family was pretty sure I was going to be found dead on the side of the road. J. and I did kind of want to kill each other by the time we got back to CT, but there were no axes involved.

It seemed like 1995 was the year the internet suddenly started getting lots of more mainstream attention. Oddly enough, I was on the internet occasionally before then (running a text-based browser on a BBS that I connected to via old-fashioned terminal emulation), but my XT clone died in '95 and I was without a computer for a year and a half, so I didn't start to really hit the internet until late '96.

Technical question which belongs outside of Buffistechnology: How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

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Whenever I see something identifying her as the founder of the internut I mean, the various boards, or as a moderator of them, I think yes, and Tim wrote for Buffy and start laughing. What else to do?

I've got sensation back except for the outside of my cheek and corner of my lips, so I guess I can try eating now. I'm a little surprised how little it all hurts. As in right now? Not at all. And I can't eat popcorn without grievous injury. Of course, tomorrow....but even the shots weren't that bad. I stabbed myself with a syringe this weekend, and that hurt a whole lot worse.

Getting used to the new teeth shape is....odd.