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.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.