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.

raises hand

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.

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.

productive timewasting

I love this phrase.

First knew of the internet in '85 or '86, but didn't really dive in until '89 or '90. Which was still pre-Endless September, let alone web, so I'm'a desperately cling to my Older Than Dirt pretense*. It lets me LAUGH and laugh and laughandlaughandlaugh at people who make big world-weary pronouncements about how the internets used to be.

* even though, srsly? noob.

I have absolutely no clue what RSS is, other than seeing it mentioned on various blogs and even here at work. But, I'm always afraid to admit to my ignorance because everyone else is so up on it and I'll look like an idiot of a Luddite (which I apparently am, since I don't have an MP3 player, digital camera, or a cell phone that does anything other than make phone calls for which I have to refer to my instruction book every time I need to retrieve a message).