I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
-t - Aug 07, 2012 9:48:15 am PDT #17314 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sarameg - Aug 07, 2012 9:50:38 am PDT #17315 of 30001
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.)
Burrell - Aug 07, 2012 9:50:44 am PDT #17316 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
Fred Pete - Aug 07, 2012 9:52:26 am PDT #17317 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Blame? Why are cat pictures deserving of blame?
msbelle - Aug 07, 2012 9:54:10 am PDT #17318 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ahh BBS chat good times. webbroadcasting or something. ridiculous theme rooms or somesuch.
I think I was buying off ebay in 1995.
chrismg - Aug 07, 2012 9:59:43 am PDT #17319 of 30001
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
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?)
Zenkitty - Aug 07, 2012 10:04:18 am PDT #17320 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I was mostly unemployed and BAROQUE in 1994. By 1995 I was working at my sister's company and then I was getting online, checking in on boards that posted Highlander fanfic. My sister taught me how to use ftp. It was amazing. We could get huge documents from Germany just like *that*.
-t - Aug 07, 2012 10:11:12 am PDT #17321 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In just a few hours! 1200 baud modem, baby.
I remember gopher and ARCHIE, but not Veronica.
Kate P. - Aug 07, 2012 10:14:09 am PDT #17322 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
We got AOL in 1994 -- I remember because I mostly used it to email friends I'd just made at my summer camp that year. Also to post on listservs for fans of the Nields, Dar Williams, and Ani DiFranco.
It's weird at first, huh? Enjoy it, though!
Thanks! It's mostly weird how not-weird it feels, except when I think about Rose at home with M all day. (He doesn't go back to work until classes start in another couple of weeks.) Also, I think I will be going through my backlog of emails for at least a week. Yikes.
Zenkitty - Aug 07, 2012 10:16:14 am PDT #17323 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I never had an AOL email address! I had email through work and never needed anything else because the company was so small no one was spying on it. I think my first personal email was [myname]@yahoo which I still have.