I asked her to be my girlfriend in 9th grade, and she said no. I asked her to be my girlfriend in 8th grade, and she said no. As most middle school romances go, this was special, I asked her to be my girlfriend in 7th grade, and she said no. It was one fateful fall afternoon, she teased that she liked some boy and was going to tell me at the end of my allotted dial-up time, which for once took forever to come…she messaged, “the boy I like is…. So it was routine of ours after our respective soccer practices to chat on AIM for a while, most of the school knew I liked her. I was fortunate enough to have a couple hour block of the line to use the dial-up, her family had two lines to the house. It was 20 years ago, we were in middle school, doing our homework together and messaging over AIM. Mutual masturbation with girls in LA who are no doubt actually guys from Iowa My husband had the foresight to leave his AIM username in his first message to me, which worked out well because without that I never would have talked to him. I might as well have been a bot, except that these days bots probably actually reply to people who send their messages.
At the time that was fine with me, because I was just curious about online dating sites but not actually interested in dating anybody through it.
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When I was in college I had a free account (meaning I could receive messages but not send anybody). ĪIM is the reason I’m married to my husband. But I had several different handles on there that I switched between depending on what I was needing to use it for or who I wanted to talk to. Most likely 3rd Eye Blind or Savage Garden. I mostly have my many hours on AIM to thank for that.īeyond that, my away message and whatnot was usually some lyric because of course it was. I’ve had to take typing test for jobs at which they were impressed with my speed/accuracy. Because I felt it necessary to carry on as many conversations with my friends as possible at the same time I became a really good typist. I’m turning 38 in a few weeks, and I STILL remember how much a laughed at that.Īnd of course, you posted~~~~ embarrassing away messages~~~~:ĪIM is partly responsible for how quickly I’m able to type. SomeRandomDude: No wonder you felt funny. SomeRandomDude: *starts rubbing MysticRift to find out why she feels funny* One chat interaction that sticks with me: I was just going back and forth with people in one of the main, general chat rooms (hey, remember those?) when this occurred: I remember my screen name being something like MysticRift, as I was into the RIFTS role playing game and the Mystic class within. Good memories of the late night, generally hormonally exciting conversations with people on the periphery of our peer group.
I do miss the individuality that we could show with a screen name. For some strange reason, my small private school wrote a school song, where one of the lines read, “More precious than a sparkling jewel.” Due to my extreme lack of self-confidence, and the unanimous “panning” of the song from the students at my school, I thought I’d be funny, creative, and gain some high school popularity points by changing my screen name to “MorePreciousThan.” If The Hobbit, had come out in theatres that year maybe I would have gotten less ridicule, but about the nicest thing my peers could say to me was that it was a screen name for an 11-year-old girl.All in all, I’m glad we use facebook messenger where we use many real names for communication. I had gotten sick of that particular reaction so much that I was in desperate need of change. I had created the screen name “TtoThaX.” It made much sense to me with the caps lock choices, but to everyone else, ttothax just sounded like Roger Daughtry’s “My Generation” stuttering with a lisp.2. All of my friends at my small private school decided to call me Tex, which I owned, despite being a short pudgy Jewish kid from the suburbs without any athletic prowess. I had moved to California from Texas when I was 14. You made serious missteps with screen names: Drove the other students that used the lab to goof off insane. Whenever I was in the college computer lab, I always made it a point to uninstall AIM from the station I was at.
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