That's when I was telnetting to UNC from the Chico State computer lab to read Usenet. Ah, grad school.
I vividly remember a guy I went to college with saying without irony about a job interview (at Netscape, iirc) "They could go to my website and see a picture of my cat, so they knew I was serious". Images were still pretty exciting.
I have edged my front lawn AND swept up the clippings. And tacked up the roses that were starting to encroach on my neighbors yard. That may be it for today, it's getting hot.
In 1994, talk was the most exciting thing ever. I could type back and forth with my roommate, while she was still at work! Woot.
"They could go to my website and see a picture of my cat, so they knew I was serious"
Does that mean we can blame it all on him?
I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
I used tohave long conversations over talk with a friend/crush from high school who was up at Harvard, freshman year. He was homesick and few of his other friends had access to it.
First browser I used was a dev version of Mosaic, so that was what, 92? (Observatory was in a partnership with U. of Ill.)
I didn't get internet access until grad school, can't remember the exact date. I just remember that they installed ethernet cables in the uni housing and boom! There it was.
Blame? Why are cat pictures deserving of blame?
ahh BBS chat good times. webbroadcasting or something. ridiculous theme rooms or somesuch.
I think I was buying off ebay in 1995.
I got online in...91, I think? When I was at UT Austin. I spent way too much time on Usenet.
(When was the original Undocumented Features posted to rec.arts.anime?)
