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imperfect_cupcake · 01-06-2015, 09:25 PM

My first computer memories are different to my first internat memories. I could not get the Internet unless at school. It was too expensive to get it. I couldn't afford a computer that did it. I had an old machine that did DOS to write papers on at home when I was 24.

But my first computer memory was the computers at my dad's work, at his lab, at the university. They ran on cards. Punch cards. Students would be using box lids to carry their PhD thesis in them. Dad said he watched a student trip and fall and watch the cards go everywhere. They have to be in the right order, obviously.fed into the computer.So the student freaked out.

But the net was too expensive for me to be able to get in a house full of early 20 something artists, none of whom had any use for the net. We were too busy painting, playing music, drinking and having sex.

Only when I realised that I was more interested in research that the Internet became more important - libraries weren't exhaustive for journals. And then the idea to look for perhaps maybe women scientists on match.com entered my head... Because the university I then moved to, away from college, only had these separatist, angry and really snobbish lesbians who wouldn't speak to me because I was bisexual (at the time).

That's how I found my first butch (into femmes. I knew oodles of leather butches into each other) Though, I had zero idea at the time that was what she was or what was coming...

01-06-2015, 09:25 PM	#31
imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,710 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	My first computer memories are different to my first internat memories. I could not get the Internet unless at school. It was too expensive to get it. I couldn't afford a computer that did it. I had an old machine that did DOS to write papers on at home when I was 24. But my first computer memory was the computers at my dad's work, at his lab, at the university. They ran on cards. Punch cards. Students would be using box lids to carry their PhD thesis in them. Dad said he watched a student trip and fall and watch the cards go everywhere. They have to be in the right order, obviously.fed into the computer.So the student freaked out. But the net was too expensive for me to be able to get in a house full of early 20 something artists, none of whom had any use for the net. We were too busy painting, playing music, drinking and having sex. Only when I realised that I was more interested in research that the Internet became more important - libraries weren't exhaustive for journals. And then the idea to look for perhaps maybe women scientists on match.com entered my head... Because the university I then moved to, away from college, only had these separatist, angry and really snobbish lesbians who wouldn't speak to me because I was bisexual (at the time). That's how I found my first butch (into femmes. I knew oodles of leather butches into each other) Though, I had zero idea at the time that was what she was or what was coming...