I was never on AOL. I hated AOL before hating AOL was cool.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Typo Boy - Sep 10, 2011 11:49:47 am PDT #17785 of 25505
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
quester - Sep 10, 2011 12:08:17 pm PDT #17786 of 25505
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I think Juno was my first or second. Never did AOL or Compuserve. I was late to the party and didn't have a computer until the lollipop iMacs, mine was green.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2011 12:25:26 pm PDT #17787 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Prodigy was my first ISP, and I never had an AOL handle until I needed one for AIM. I wish I could remember my Prodigy ID, but it's gone.
Liese S. - Sep 10, 2011 12:28:34 pm PDT #17788 of 25505
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I was on Compuserve and ended up on aol because of gaming. I was fatoudust there because everybody on the internet was supposed to be geeky and get fractal math references. I had multiple accounts and kept a notebook with lists of online minutes, somewhat because of chat, but mostly text based rpgs. It's kinda funny to me in a way that we're back to metered data usage. We may look back on the years we're closing out now as the halcyon days of unlimited data.
Strix - Sep 10, 2011 12:35:05 pm PDT #17789 of 25505
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
When I went to NWMSU in 90-94, there was a while big deal about it being the first "electronic campus" so I started out with my student email, then I had Jan-May without email at my folks house (NBD -- I used a LAND LINE (gasp) to call people on their LAND LINES when I wanted to chat, and used my dad's Earthlink if I needed to surf) and then I started grad school in 95.
sumi - Sep 10, 2011 12:43:39 pm PDT #17790 of 25505
Art Crawl!!!
I have an aol name because of AIM - but that was the only part of aol I ever used. (I had my NIU email address - I've had it pretty much since grad school.)
Sophia Brooks - Sep 10, 2011 12:52:26 pm PDT #17791 of 25505
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Buffistas were my first internet experience. I was such a late adopter that my first home computer was a ruby imac,and I used to print off pages of buffistas at work to read at home.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 1:47:11 pm PDT #17792 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, LeN, did you get that fancy stylus yet? eta: This looks interesting.
I was online first in university. I was "phoenix" there. My friend ktrigg told me to go with my name, and he's been ktrigg everywhere for twenty+ years, but if you can't be a phoenix at 18, you're not really living.
I should have been ita more places, and ita [lastname] a couple fewer. That's where most of my error (i.e. non-resume) appearances are.
-t - Sep 10, 2011 1:54:29 pm PDT #17793 of 25505
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't have a choice in college, I was tskared, and I still use that some places because I can remember it and nobody else is gonna want it.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2011 2:03:22 pm PDT #17794 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
I have used it a bit, but not enough where I can really give a review. I like it, it gives me a lot of control, but there is a faint click click as I write.
So, my quick assessment is that I like it but I wish the click wasn't there.