3 posts tagged “nerdy”
wow, awesome blast from the past. i was modifying my résumé for an online-oriented employer, and out of curiousity i wanted to see how long Prodigy had been around (or *P, for those who remember) to see if i had gotten my dates/years straight in my head. for those keeping track, i was on around 1991.
i ended up switching to AOL (version 1.6!) at around 1993 because they had ftp access without needing a shell account (which meant first web site!), it used the windows 3.1 UI so i didn't have to download a whole new gui every time i wanted to look at something else, and it also had archie/veronica searchable access so i could get guitar tab from sunet.se. or maybe that was a little later? i do remember the stigma of having been an aol.com email holder by internet "elitists" however (then mostly compuserve and university students). i think i had flashed my 2400 baud to 33.6 by then. does that sound right? or maybe it was 1200 to 2400.
so in 1995ish i got my first "real" dial-up service from netcom, who was subsequently purchased by mindspring, who later merged with earthlink. at least my email address didn't change through that time. enter blazing-fast 56k modem.
the rest is uneventful: earthlink DSL in 1998, interquest/ygnition T1 in 2002, and now a cable internet connection.
uh, yeah, that's enough about internet tubes for now.
* i had set up accounts for everyone in my family, but i was the only one who used the service. hence, the lowly "D" account.
tiara.org: powerpoint karaoke
It basically involves downloading random ppts from the web, the more obscure the better (I would think the RFID tag/mark of the beast deck would be a good starter). Participants have to improvise a presentation along with the PPT, having no idea, of course, what slide is to come next. I have a feeling I’d be good at this game, but it doesn’t seem to have caught on in this country, even here in the ultranerdy SF bay area.
steve is currently trying to organize a powerpoint karaoke event.
