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.
Cacophony. That's pretty. What's it mean?
Harmony ,'Underneath'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 1:34:07 pm PDT #1108 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kathy A - Jul 30, 2007 1:35:03 pm PDT #1109 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Thanks, JZ, I hadn't read that first one yet.
Glamcookie - Jul 30, 2007 1:39:42 pm PDT #1110 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Online since 92 or 93. Immediately smitten.
Pix - Jul 30, 2007 1:41:33 pm PDT #1111 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 1:43:43 pm PDT #1112 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 1:43:56 pm PDT #1113 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Lee - Jul 30, 2007 1:44:35 pm PDT #1114 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
raises hand
sarameg - Jul 30, 2007 1:45:13 pm PDT #1115 of 10001
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.
bon bon - Jul 30, 2007 1:46:24 pm PDT #1116 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
I use bloglines, if that is what you mean. I picked it up through a detailed tutorial on Lifehacker yonks ago-- not that it's hard, but I also don't use ebay because I don't know how. I think everyone who reads more than a few blogs daily should learn how to use an RSS reader, it makes a huge difference in productive timewasting.
Pix - Jul 30, 2007 1:47:27 pm PDT #1117 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
productive timewasting
I love this phrase.