Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
There needs to be a TV show where hamster-controlled Roombas fight cats riding Roombas.
I'm almost certain the Japanese are already working on this.
I loved the Dustin Hoffman episode of Graham Norton. DH was so relaxed - I've never seen him that loose and funny during an interview before.
If I remember correctly, David Tennant does an episode at some point too.
Anyone here remember Girls On Film? That was probably my first online community situation, in like 98-99. I met a guy I went out with a couple of times on there, and also wrote something (I have no idea what) and got paid via a t-shirt.
Good times.
The Tennant Graham Norton show was a hoot! They had a TARDIS set up in the streets of London and rang the phone that they had installed inside it to see if anyone would pick it up, and when a guy did and started chatting with them, they proceeded to have a forklift pick the whole thing up and transport it back to their studio, with the guy still inside!
I first had internet access in 1995 with Mindspring, which has since merged with Earthlink. I remember being conscious that that made me much cooler than someone with an AOL address. When I started with Mindspring, the servers were in Charles Brewer's condo in midtown, and if you reported a problem, he'd call you.
I remember one of my first ISPs was run out of the basement of a guy who was a professional baker by day.
When I lived in Minneapolis in '94, there was no ISP in the city that offered internet access - AOL was the only way. Then some ISP started that was available only to UM grads, so my roommate could get online but not me. For a while I'd get online via a BBS in San Francisco, which gave me text-only web access.
DH got a decent annual raise and a pretty generous bonus today. It feels weird because other industries and companies are reeling and not giving them out. So many people have been fucked over and are hurting financially. We have a bit of survivor's guilt.
I didn't get online until 1999!
My XT clone died while I was in San Francisco in '95, and I didn't get a computer to replace it until '97. So I generally consider that as when I got on the web - at least it was the first time I could browse the web with graphics!
I got online in 95 when I started grad school and got a computer of my very own. I think I was mostly on Salon and Eastenders message boards for a long time.
The first time I had my own account with an ISP wasn't until around 1997. About a week later I discovered slash fanfic (X-Files, Mulder/Krycek). Mmmmmm, good times.