I had a 1200 baud modem for my Commodore 64 in HS. When I was in college in 1985 I got Usenet, and I got full Internet access in 1987 when I got a co-op job at the company that Raq is now working for.
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2008 6:48:55 am PST #8706 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Gadget_Girl - Mar 05, 2008 6:51:22 am PST #8707 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Laura, that color looks great on you!
Susan W. - Mar 05, 2008 6:52:18 am PST #8708 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've been online since 1990, when I was a college sophomore and two of my best friends were engineering majors who introduced me to the wonders of usenet and mailing lists. They tried to get me into their favorite MUD, but I mainly used my character to chat to them when we were in different computer labs. Because only one of the three of us actually owned a computer. We just lived in the labs.
Scrappy - Mar 05, 2008 6:54:17 am PST #8709 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Laura looks totally awesome!!!!!!
Laura, wash it less, use the Bumble+Bumble or Goldwell products for red hair and you should last a while.
I get to leave work at 1:00 today because my best friend (since 1976) is visiting from Massachusetts! Woo Hoo!
Volans - Mar 05, 2008 6:54:54 am PST #8710 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Considering that I often can't use my corporate computer to access the internet from my company, I find some irony in Tom's history.
OMG, Disney's cutting down the rainforest in Small World! [link]
amych - Mar 05, 2008 6:55:18 am PST #8711 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We just lived in the labs.
Yeah, I spent a stupid amount of college in a computer lab at nothing-a.m. in command line chat with friends who were, like, three machines away. Because if we actually got up to talk to each other out loud it'd be like acknowledging the fact that we weren't really doing work at all.
So little has changed. Mostly just the choice of client and the nothing-a.m. part.
Amy - Mar 05, 2008 6:57:45 am PST #8712 of 10001
Because books.
I didn't even have or use a computer in college. I was all excited when I got a Brother word processor on my 21st birthday.
We didn't even get a computer until ... god, 1995? Can that be right?
Gadget_Girl - Mar 05, 2008 6:59:54 am PST #8713 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I'm not at work today. I'm not at work today. I'm not at work today. Draconian Dictator will have to pick on someone else! I'm not at work today.
Also, I'll be spending the day at the conference tomorrow with one of my closest friends from Grad School!
Volans - Mar 05, 2008 7:00:44 am PST #8714 of 10001
move out and draw fire
In the so-little-has-changed dept, in 1989, one of the sysadmins whose user name was Sauron felt it his duty to send me (whose user name was Tinuviel) a message on the network that when I read it, obliterated my final thesis paper.
As a result, whenever I hear people whining about pig bombs in Second Life, I just have to roll my eyes.
amych - Mar 05, 2008 7:04:23 am PST #8715 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I roll my eyes about a whole lot in Second Life.