What’s In A Name?

[duluthralphie]

You remember America Online?!
Do you also remember Compuserve and the Fido mailbox network?
And the Altavista search from Digital?

No evil krakens at this times!

Yep, those were some of the names I couldn’t recall. Except Fido I never heard of it.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I had aol as my internet service until this spring....they discontinued their broadband then. I just got home internet through t mobile Friday.

How is your commodore 64 doing, I have to keep air cleaning mine.

 

[electrycmonk]

Back in high school... We had a pc10 with lotus 1,2,3 version 1.0 in 1985(?)

 

[azurbanclucker]

You remember America Online?!
Do you also remember Compuserve and the Fido mailbox network?
And the Altavista search from Digital?

I remember those things. I remember BBS door games and fidonet and pirating games on usenet. I remember my first shell box account. most importantly, I remember the first time I had this, though at the time it didn't mean as much as it has in the years since.

[root@ferrum ~]#

 

[electrycmonk]

Are you speaking in metaphor?

Or might this be a wink to the linux community?

I do miss usenet and telnetting.....

 

[mamiemonrovia]

Use ur "stripper" name. Take the name of ur 1st pet attach that 2 to the street u grew up on. Volla! It works every time 2 much hilarity, hence Mamie Monrovia. Cheers

 

[CluckerFamily]

My name came after an adult conversation after some adult beverages.
It started with Cluck You. Then we thought it was hilarious to come up with others.
Mother Clucker
You are Clucking Crazy
Clucking Family
Etc.
It ended with :
You and the whole Clucker Family

CluckerFamily just had to be my name for BYC!

 

[Mimi13]

Back in high school... We had a pc10 with lotus 1,2,3 version 1.0 in 1985(?)

“Back in high school”. . . I had typewriters! All you young pups don’t know what you missed! <semi P; semi P> I can hear it just like it was yesterday! No games to play, no usernames to create, no passwords or commands to remember. Heck, I’m almost old enough to remember not having to turn the dang thing on! No electricity needed. And speaking of remember, I can’t. I just can’t anymore.

All my computer experience was for work only (beginning in the early 80’s). No games, just floppy disks; a bunch of them, in their very own little organizer, complete with attached, acrylic cover. Oh yeah, good times, none of which I remember. CRS is a real thing, people, which I blame on the rest of my life...birthing babies and raising them - no computer needed, just a lap and loving arms. (I wouldn’t change a thing. )

Nowadays, I do have a laptop that I rarely even turn on anymore and mostly only for my embroidery machines to access the embroidery files. My iPad is great for playing solitaire and my iPhone is great for taking pictures of all my feathered friends. Thank goodness accessing my birds doesn’t require dial-up.

 

[Mimi13]

Use ur "stripper" name. Take the name of ur 1st pet attach that 2 to the street u grew up on. Volla! It works every time 2 much hilarity, hence Mamie Monrovia. Cheers

I love it!

 

[Mimi13]

My name came after an adult conversation after some adult beverages.
It started with Cluck You. Then we thought it was hilarious to come up with others.
Mother Clucker
You are Clucking Crazy
Clucking Family
Etc.
It ended with :
You and the whole Clucker Family

CluckerFamily just had to be my name for BYC!

It would have been funny to be a fly on the wall during that decision!