Internet Nostalgia

[Chancie]

i got online in about 1995.

I bought a new computer when I started graduate school and

It came with a disk to install Prodigy.

My first email address was a randomly generated list of characters @prodigy.com.

I played a lot of Tetris when I should have been doing research, and

I would dream about those shapes falling.

At some point I discovered a free download for Quake, and

I would play it a lot and I would get kind of flinch-y, and

I would delete it from from my computer.

I would download it again, and delete it again.

Eventually I learned how to play in 'god mode' and

I got way too familiar with the geography of the game.

I didn't know that many people with email addresses in 1995, but

I had a lot of fun corresponding.

I made terrible mistakes all the time, like

I sent a romantic email meant for my ex to her whole family.

Once I cc'ed my ex's mother in an email where I was talking about her.

She was always very nice to me and

All I was repeating was her strong opinion about how to use ellipses correctly.