Hey, where did your LiveJournal username come from? (If you have numbers or underscores or, G-d forbid, extra x's used for spaces in your name, don't count those. Only the words.)
Though honestly it's so old now I really don't remember any more which came first, the chicken or the egg. I've used it online for over 10 years and people have called me Arie in real life for that long as well (even my own mother almost always calls me Arie these days), and I'm fuzzy on the details of where it started.
Okay check this out. I only whip this out when I really want to show how internet-ancient I am.
We used to call the NASA shuttle update team on a 300baud accousting coupler to get updates on the shuttle (my grandmother worked for NASA back in those days). I've been through it all, my very first computer was a Texas Instrutemtns KEYBOARD deal that you hooked up to the tv and it was really cool when they came out with the module you could hook up to it to make it talk like a really stilted old-fashioned sterotypical computer voice. My very first program was written on that in BASIC and it was to calculate bowling averages.
I just checked with my mother, she believes I was 7 when I wrote my first program. This is why my friends who code are always all shocked I don't do programming. :P
Ha, nice! Yes, you do win. Though I did start on BASIC too. Ah, the good old days. Javascript really needs line numbers.
I remember, many years ago, that my dad had a modem for his Apple ][c. I didn't know what a modem was, though, and didn't ask. I just remember sitting quietly in the back of the computer room. My dad would type something, and it would show up on the screen. Then he would stop typing and STUFF WOULD STILL BE SHOWING UP ON THE SCREEN!!!! My dad was quite the magician then.
My sister used to call me peaches n' cream (don't ask). If I had given it much thought it wouldn't have been the one that stuck on the internet though. The original internet name was PJAgman (I was 10 at the time and thought I was really clever) but I had to create a new IM name quickly when I first got to Penn and it was the first thing that came to me. Then friends happened to see it on my computer and it was all over. I have been Peaches in one form or another ever since.
I do have other internet names but no one really know them so I guess they are mostly for me and a few individuals like "he who must not be named" or games when I don't want to be known as me.
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I'm an internet relic....
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Or maybe not.
(I'm a bit disappointed, too. You were one of the people I really wanted to see the poll results for! A shame you don't remember.)
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We used to call the NASA shuttle update team on a 300baud accousting coupler to get updates on the shuttle (my grandmother worked for NASA back in those days). I've been through it all, my very first computer was a Texas Instrutemtns KEYBOARD deal that you hooked up to the tv and it was really cool when they came out with the module you could hook up to it to make it talk like a really stilted old-fashioned sterotypical computer voice. My very first program was written on that in BASIC and it was to calculate bowling averages.
I win. :P
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I remember, many years ago, that my dad had a modem for his Apple ][c. I didn't know what a modem was, though, and didn't ask. I just remember sitting quietly in the back of the computer room. My dad would type something, and it would show up on the screen. Then he would stop typing and STUFF WOULD STILL BE SHOWING UP ON THE SCREEN!!!! My dad was quite the magician then.
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I do have other internet names but no one really know them so I guess they are mostly for me and a few individuals like "he who must not be named" or games when I don't want to be known as me.
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