Corrupted
Yes, I have been corrupted…corrupted by the corporate take over of my beloved internet.
I have been online for about 10 years now. I seem to recall when Hotmail was announcing that they had reached 2 million users. WOW I was one of the first 2 million people using hotmail. How many are there now…I think I read somewhere it was up to 18 million. If you didn’t know…back then mircosoft didn’t own Hotmail.
Another thing I remember is the rise of instant messaging…not to clearly though, I think I am starting to get old or something. Anyway as I remember it AOL had all the long had IM on their network, but they didn’t have AIM yet. We used to use a little program call ICQ. Once AOL started loosening their reigns and were letting their users venture out into the “real” internet, AIM was not far behind. Anyway if if all of that is somewhat wrong, what I do remember is the guys over at ICQ trying to hook into AIM so that ICQ users could IM with people on AIM. Well AOL freaked the fuck out…whole lot of back and forth around and round and in the end AOL bought out ICQ…
Another cool thing that was just starting out back then were websites that let you create a website for free…ever heard of Geocities? Any guesses as to how this story goes? Good thing…gets very popular…bought out by yahoo. Actually there where quite a few people doing this type of thing back then, and I don’t think any of them have survived except maybe angelfire. (I am too lazy to look it up.) I remember that one of the sites didn’t require you to put a link back to them or anything, I am not sure how they could have expected this work out long term…when I think about it, I was pretty much using my free website as a blog. Of course back then it took a little more work than just typing and clicking publish.
Back then the internet was much more innocent…and it was actually pretty easy to find free porn, not the “free” previews you can get now, real free porn. Oh yeah and you didn’t have to deal with advertisements on ever single fucking website and spam email. I think I will have to devote some special time to spam so I won’t get into it now, but I will just say…my Hotmail account…the one I have had for like 10 years…I only ever get spam in that account…nothing else.
OK, you’re right not every single website has ads, but…this is no longer one of them! Yes I have sold out to the man…so get to clicking or something.
