HI!

[vixalicious]

Looking for a quick, completely unscientific poll here:

When did you first go online, and what was it like?

I got my first laptop in 1998 and that's when I went online. It was all AOL chat rooms, complete with skeezy guys trying to have cybersex.

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[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I think it was 1999. The local Records Office down the road from me had a room where you could just go and use their computers and go on the internet for half an hour for free. Someone showed me how to set up an email address and type things you were interested in into Yahoo. One of the things I typed in was 'Eddie Izzard'. There were these crazy people hanging out on something called a 'message board', talking random crap. I thought 'I could go for that'. So when I acquired a stone-age computer in 2000, I looked them up again. Since then my existence has been largely computer-based.