"It Was Twenty Years Ago....."

[fitzjameshorse]

It was 20 years ago today....Sgt Pepper.....no it was 9th August 1998 that I took delivery of my first computer. The Internet and going online in those days was highly expensive and cost a lot of frictin between my wife and me. The thing is that it changed my life...in the same years I started some therapy and the combination of counselling and the

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[mac_arthur_park]

It's funny how 20 years seems like nothing now. It goes so fast.

[fitzjameshorse]

or put it another way.......in 20 years time I will be 86 years old. Or I wont be.

[greeneyedsadie]

I got the internet at home in 1995 when I was 21, and it completely changed my life. I had tons of friends all over the world and I had so many LDRs, OMG. I had nothing but LDRs for like 7 years once I got on the computer.

My internet friendships have gone in cycles. I'm still friends with a few people from a group on Usenet from the 90s, so those friendships are now 21 years old, but I've lost most of them, some have died, some became twats and assholes, some have given up social media, so my friend circles have definitely changed over the years.

The internet is definitely more angry and violent than it used to be, it used to be like a big commune, but politics have infiltrated all parts of the internet now and have destroyed some of the more beautiful parts of the internet, which is sad. I think the internet is wonderful, and has done amazing things for this world, but I think it's also scary and dangerous and will eventually (already is) being used as a weapon against the masses. It's scary.

[fitzjameshorse]

Before I got online, I heard someone on TV explaining this "Internet" as a giant library but all the pages from books were scattered all over the place

[greeneyedsadie]

After I left Mal, who I was with for 5 years and lived together (it was like a marriage), I was manic for a long time due to a medication I was taking, and I had lots of sex with a lot of different men, and I tried kink and discovered that I loved being tied up and flogged, but I hated being a "sub" as I did not like being submissive and the doms saying nasty things to me and being dominant in an asshole way, so I discovered I was a "power bottom" and Doms don't really like those so I gave up when I couldn't find someone who would tie me up and whip me and fuck me and have fun with it and not be so serious