I was on USENET in '87 or '88, but I don't think I grasped the enormity of what was going on--despite it being somewhere authors were hanging out, and stuff. Once I graduated, it got frustrating. Our AS/400 at work was on an all-IBM network, which...limited fun, but I did get nookie out of it. And when I came to the US in '93, I found FidoNet, and it was on, baby, ON. And then AOL/Prodigy/Juno/whatevs...that very special time where everyone had their own website with a guestbook, and then Friendster and...I can't believe there are kids on Tumblr younger than my Internet addiction. My Internet addiction can drink and vote.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 10:16:16 am PDT #17324 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Aug 07, 2012 10:16:31 am PDT #17325 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, I think I will be going through my backlog of emails for at least a week. Yikes.
Delete 'em. Add a note to your signature that says "I was out of the office, resend anything you still need a reponse to" and delete the whole backlog.
Zenkitty - Aug 07, 2012 10:17:31 am PDT #17326 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Juno! I remember that now! Juno might have been my first personal email, come to think of it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2012 10:21:45 am PDT #17327 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
I remember getting AOL on my first computer (a Mac Performa) and then having to ban a roommate from using it because he racked up so many minutes of long distance phone charges that he couldn't make rent.
Jesse - Aug 07, 2012 10:23:53 am PDT #17328 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The yahoo I still use as my primary email address is the one I got in 1995, when I needed a personal account.
Kate P. - Aug 07, 2012 10:25:13 am PDT #17329 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Delete 'em. Add a note to your signature that says "I was out of the office, resend anything you still need a reponse to" and delete the whole backlog.
Yeah, I'm deleting most of them -- I had an autoreply set up so that anyone emailing me about book pitches got directed to a coworker. But I do need to get back up to speed on what books are coming out this fall/winter, and reading through publicist emails and industry newsletters is one of the best ways for me to do that. But yeah, almost none of them are going to get a response at this point.
Ginger - Aug 07, 2012 10:26:13 am PDT #17330 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I first went online in 1995 on MindSpring (now merged with Earthlink) back when the servers were in the founder's condo in midtown. When something went wrong, he'd call you.
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2012 10:29:58 am PDT #17331 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember getting AOL on my first computer (a Mac Performa) and then having to ban a roommate from using it because he racked up so many minutes of long distance phone charges that he couldn't make rent.
Heh. After I moved to Minneapolis in '91, I was low on money and ended up locked out of my WELL account due to being behind on my bill. At least there was a way to avoid long-distance charges.
I think I sent one or two emails to addresses outside of the WELL while I was on it.
-t - Aug 07, 2012 10:33:58 am PDT #17332 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had friends on the WELL, but I could never afford it. Those e-mail addresses to easy to remember, at least.
NoiseDesign - Aug 07, 2012 10:36:05 am PDT #17333 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
I ran a BBS in San Diego in 1985 I think, I was online at 300 Baud before that.