I remember Y2K. Dale Gribble was inspiring everyone to freak out in Arlen, Texas. The seniors were getting coddled because they're the first millennium class.

I remember Y2K. Dale Gribble was inspiring everyone to freak out in Arlen, Texas. The seniors were getting coddled because they're the first millennium class. The Rio PMP300 is f-ing amazing since it made it much easier than my Sony MiniDisc recorder/player having to use sound breaks to copy MP3 tracks. There was no WiFi but then again it's not like anyone had laptops to use that anyways. I had to use the powerline as my network. But I do remember writing HTML for the high school web team and thought I was amazing. I remember not being able to send a whole album through email but then if you knew anything you would have been splitting zip/rar files or how to fake upload ratios to leech off FTPs anyways. Yahoo was all you needed. Yahoo directory was good, Inktomi kind of sucked so everyone used AltaVista, Yahoo Mail was good, Yahoo Maps was good, Yahoo Games was good, Yahoo News was good. There were no ads but if there were there was probably some auto-clicker to let you make a paycheck out of it. I remember having a 5 digit ICQ number, remember AOL Profile was my Facebook, AIM status messages was my Twitter, Netscape Navigator could be bought in a store like CompUSA. I remember spending all your time on a computer, or especially the Internet Information Superhighway if anyway knew what even means meant you weren't like them. But now it's a given. A few years ago I reflected, thinking how far out in the future I was living just by the good fortune of having grown up in Silicon Valley. I've been online for 18 years now, babies then are now legal adults, and it's been three lifetimes of watching the internet being the internet. And compared to other industries like Hollywood which endured more than 85 years, we've barely begun.