Rachel, the internet long predates me, but I’ve pretty much seen the web grow up.

Matt, some day we’ve GOT to have an in-person reunion! Just Saturday I went to a baby shower for another Trinity grad and caught up with several other alums — do you remember Vivian and Xandria?

Brigid, ah, bitnet. And bang addresses! Such memories.

Here’s to many more! (clink)

I’m not a web pioneer (surfing the web since 98), so unfortunately I can’t tell of any fond memories from the very beginning. I just started using the web when I went to university, before that I could always do without using a pc. Funny that I find it hard to imagine not having a pc and the web at my disposal nowadays.
For the site I’d like to say that it’s very good you’re doing it, Johanna, cause it gives one a view on comic related stuff that’s hard to find anywhere else and you really seem to care about the things you post.
so I always enjoy checking by.

I’m married to a physicist (15 years!) and we used to send e-mail back and forth when we were dating. We used Bitnet, and I would send him an e-mail and watch it bounce from node to node on its way to him. I also remember him getting all excited about one of the early web browsers, Mosaic maybe, and my sister and I rolling our eyes because it took so long to show a single image. At the time I thought it was entertaining but pointless. Shows what I know.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics/browse_thread/thread/e10625444b469857/7ca02b31a586690d?hl=en#7ca02b31a586690d

Some of the stuff I wrote on the ‘net was interesting, some of it boring, lots of it stupid — hey, I was young! And all of it is archived for eternity. For a short while there, I was the official net news source for Hepcats. There are some messages from before then, dating back to late 1990 — the very first message, with my name attached to it, that is archived at Google is just me asking to be “subcribed” to rec.arts.comics, sixteen years ago. Back when I was still a young kid in college, typing on those damned green-glowing VT100 terminals. There may be some older stuff floating around (I did participate in a couple of non-newsgroups discussion groups before that date), but not by much.

Believe it or not, Johanna, your only one of two people that I know from Trinity U (the other person is Joe Rosales). I’m terrible at keeping in touch with people, and I wonder where some of them have ended up, all these years later.

I was trying to figure out how long I’ve been online, you were the DC Online moderator on AOL at the time.

All hail CLI and no threading!

Now add in three kids…