What your e-mail address means…
I got on AOL and CompuServe, back in college, then later, me, dialing into the University’s mainframe.
From 1987 to about 1996, I was AOL, and in 1996, I was given a “free for life” AOL account. Supposedly grandfathered in. That went away in 2001, the last of the crash. Last of that cash, too.
“Free for life,” yeah, corporate speak for what?
By the end of 1998, I leased astrofish.net and that started the current run, still at it today. My first name, Kramer at my domain.
Geeky.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address
Free-stylin’ micro-bloggin’:
Message here.
Comments on this entry are closed.
Liked the Hunch Blog you linked to. Very interesting, read it top to bottom. I started out with AOL way back in 19 (ahem) and very quickly dropped it in favor of hotmail, even though my employer’s firewall admitted AOL (!) and not hotmail. Even more surprising, still the situation. Says a lot about the IT folks who run our network, doesn’t it.
Currently have both gmail and hotmail accounts, linked so I can read email on just one site. Gmail didn’t seem to have anything particularly snazzy or different, so never did migrate there completely. Would do so if my employer allowed access, but since the IT folks are stuck in the Computer Dark Ages, not going to happen any time soon.