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March 31, 2000: Friday
I was digging through some archived material from old homepages of mine (the first is gone forever now, alas; wish I had it as it'd help keep me humble) looking for a page I used to keep of song lyrics and poetry snippets that moved me in one way or another. During the search I ran across old guestbook entries from 1996. I didn't even know I still had these. It made me terribly nostalgic for the virtual places I hung out then and for the real-life people who signed my guestbook then and since for one reason or another have vanished. It even provided email addresses for some people I thought I'd lost forever.
Snippets:
Name:Bingo? Bango? BONGO!
Email:bunny@luv.snuggles.com
Date:Friday - 2/Feb/96 - 14:37:00
Homepage:The Cuddle Page of Mr. Bongo Bunny!
Referred from:Yahoo!
Comments: Once upon a time, when I was stealing radishes out of Mr. McGregor's patch,
I happened upon something very strange: A PILE OF DEAD BUNNIES! WITH A BIG
LABRADOR RETRIEVER ROLLING AROUND ON THEIR STINKING CORPSES!
Needless to say, I was quite aroused.
Name:lex of death
Email:born of me@.... (none of yer beeswax)
Date:Sunday - 11/Feb/96 - 20:11:18
Homepage:i hate more than most people breath
Referred from:Michelle Made Me Do It
Comments: why is your damn page black you damn joiner???? don't you know that if "big brother" didn't give
you something to fight against then what would all the young "oppressed" rebels of the world do? Go around
being happy? Hell no you would still de depressed, depraved, and desperately looking for the next big thing to
break down. If you really feel strongly about something don't shout it in a closed room where the only people who
are going to hear it are people that hear the same shit out of you all the time anyway... send your message
straight to the people behind the lens! essentially all i'm saying is; speak out if you must, but speak out when you
want to and in your own way, following the crowd that doesn't follow the crowd is still... following the crowd. Glad
to see that you had so much time to put together your page. hope mine will be ready for viewing sometime
soon. and for the love of individuality, turn on the damn lights!
Name:JADE
Date:Saturday - 17/Feb/96 - 14:15:59
Homepage:
Referred from:Michelle Made Me Do It
Comments: I'm sitting here with your HORNEY cat in my lap. This is
the first time I have lurked in your digital layer.
You're somking a crushed cigarette from a pack left over after
the Zombie pit. What a incredible creature you are with your
feminine features, tough resolve and gentle nature.
I shall return to your layer soon with gifts fit for a godess.
Name:Jennifer A. Wand (spoiler)
Email:eponine@ccs.neu.edu
Date:Thursday - 11/Apr/96 - 11:42:16
Homepage:Jen's Batcave/Sailor Scout Headquarters
Referred from:NewsGroups
Comments: Hey Michelle my love! Great page... you are a babe in fact :) without you who would control my
rapid-fire puns eh? I love ya, hope to see you on irc again soon!
Name:Greg Alt
Email:galt@asylum.cs.utah.edu
Date:Tuesday - 16/Apr/96 - 19:51:57
From:Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Homepage:the Utah Anarchism and Revolution page
Referred from:Linked from a "Chicks-on-the-Web" page
Comments: "Utopienne" sounded interesting, so I thought I'd check it out.
Interesting site, though I think your clinging faith in electoral
politics is unrealistic. If you really want a free society, based
on mutual aid and respect, the government must go along with its
prisons, military, etc. Check out my web page for some more info
on anarchism. I especially recommend anything written by Emma Goldman,
especially her autobiography, 'Living My Life'.
Name:Glenn V. Morrison
Email:glenn5@mindspring.com
Date:Tuesday - 14/May/96 - 7:34:42
From:Atlanta, GA, USA
Homepage:Glenn V. Morrison, Urban Adventurer
Referred from:Random Curiosity
Comments: "Random Curiosity" works well enough, I suppose, but it was a little more systematic
than that: I was scrolling through the Mindspring personal pages. Nice page, Michelle!
On your art page, I particularly like the silhouette of the girl in the graveyard.
Name:Timothy
Date:Saturday - 25/May/96 - 14:43:51
Referred from:I was hoping it would make Michelle fall madly in love with me.
Comments: That seems appropriate, Mine Own...
Name: Thomas L. Strickland aka Lafcadio
Email: lafcadio@mindspring.com
Date: Thursday - 30/May/96 - 13:56:48
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Referred from: I was hoping it would make Michelle fall madly in love with me.
Comments: Actually I do not know Michelle and have nothing upon which
to base any desirous thought or action... except for this
loverly website here. If only my bosses and coworkers would
simply leave me be for a day or two, I too could establish a
pseudopermanent presence on the wide world of web. Alas, however,
my notoriety can only be spread by occasional emails, celebrated
guest books and pointed posts to particular newsgroups. (If you
have seen Lafcadio roaming about your favorite ng, that twas me it
was I tell you it was!)
Anywho. Simply phantasmic website Michelle, just smashing. In
response to its beauty I offer a tip of my absent hat, a moment
of golfer's applause (I am at work y'know), and an offering of
coffee and conversation at the Starbucks/Caribou of your choice!
I actually did eventually meet Thomas for coffee at a place just around the corner from where I lived then. We'd corresponded via email for a bit by that point, and so we brought one another gifts: he brought me a cigar; I brought him my outgrown HTML primer, consisting of four different short HTML tutorials, including the "How To Write Good HTML" document and the tutorial that used to be hosted at NASA's site, whatever that was about, that I'd printed out on four colors of paper and velo-bound myself---this was in the days I worked at Kinko's and overindulgence in office supplies was a way of life. Thomas eventually did put my primer to good use, and put up a webpage of his own on his Mindspring space---but it's gone now, and though I haven't the heart to try, I bet an email to that address would bounce too.
I don't agree that the internet isolates people from one another. I would, however, have to say that while it actually enables a person to make friends one would otherwise never have met, it also makes it too saddeningly easy to lose them as well.
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