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As much as I'm fascinated by this work and the author's tenacity, as a past user of CompuServe I'm quite alarmed at the prospect of my data falling into the han

As much as I'm fascinated by this work and the author's tenacity, as a past user of CompuServe I'm quite alarmed at the prospect of my data falling into the hands of a random tech junkie blogging on the internet. Verizon, if you're out there - please get a handle on this breach before my lawyers call you.

icedchai 8y ago
Yes, I was a CompuServe user back in 1988. I'm very concerned about my teenage "CB" chat logs falling into the wrong hands.
- ghaff 8y ago
  :-) Although I was no longer a teenager and don't think I ever used chat, it's hard for me to imagine just about anything in my early online presence that would cause me more than very mild embarrassment today. Yeah, someone should have scrubbed these. But it's hard for me to get too worked up.
- CamperBob2 8y ago
  Eh, buy the ticket, take the ride. Don't type anything on a keyboard today that you don't want to see on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow. I learned that lesson at 300 baud, long before I had ever heard of CompuServe, but that didn't stop me from forgetting it a time or two when I got my CS account. So if there's anything in this archive that would embarrass you, well, at least you're in good company.
- zeveb 8y ago
  Past Senate and current Presidential candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke felt a need to apologise for his adolescent fiction, which he posted online. You might be surprised what you posted back then. I know that when I've gone back and reviewed my own history I've been surprised what I posted for posterity as a kid. I didn't understand that it'd be out there for the rest of my life.
  - CamperBob2 8y ago
    I didn't understand that it'd be out there for the rest of my life. Neither did anyone else, which means it isn't going to matter in the long run for anyone who is just starting out today. If everybody has skeletons in their closet, no one does. And everybody pretty much does. Remember that one of the two major parties in the US has willfully abandoned any pretense at moral authority by supporting Trump. The only threat Beto faces in that regard comes from his own party. The correct reaction would be for him to own his juvenile fiction, not apologize for it.

icedchai 8y ago

Yes, I was a CompuServe user back in 1988. I'm very concerned about my teenage "CB" chat logs falling into the wrong hands.

ghaff 8y ago
:-) Although I was no longer a teenager and don't think I ever used chat, it's hard for me to imagine just about anything in my early online presence that would cause me more than very mild embarrassment today. Yeah, someone should have scrubbed these. But it's hard for me to get too worked up.
CamperBob2 8y ago
Eh, buy the ticket, take the ride. Don't type anything on a keyboard today that you don't want to see on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow. I learned that lesson at 300 baud, long before I had ever heard of CompuServe, but that didn't stop me from forgetting it a time or two when I got my CS account. So if there's anything in this archive that would embarrass you, well, at least you're in good company.
zeveb 8y ago
Past Senate and current Presidential candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke felt a need to apologise for his adolescent fiction, which he posted online. You might be surprised what you posted back then. I know that when I've gone back and reviewed my own history I've been surprised what I posted for posterity as a kid. I didn't understand that it'd be out there for the rest of my life.
- CamperBob2 8y ago
  I didn't understand that it'd be out there for the rest of my life. Neither did anyone else, which means it isn't going to matter in the long run for anyone who is just starting out today. If everybody has skeletons in their closet, no one does. And everybody pretty much does. Remember that one of the two major parties in the US has willfully abandoned any pretense at moral authority by supporting Trump. The only threat Beto faces in that regard comes from his own party. The correct reaction would be for him to own his juvenile fiction, not apologize for it.