The Ghosts of Christmas Past

[msnvwls]

Merry Christmas, everybody. I hope you’re only reading this because you have some free time away from your families and your presents, and that everything where you are is warm and happy, the way this day ought to be. I’ve always thought it was strange that this holiday, the biggest of the entire year, takes place on the first day of the last

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[violalee]

Andrew,

You are amazing. Never forget that who you are on the internet is the person you are/could be in real life. This stuff doesn't come from thin air, you know.

Love always, and Merry Christmas. May you find the peace and solace you've been looking for.

Traci

[msnvwls]

: D

Thank you, Traci. A very Merry Christmas to you, too. Mine's actually been decent so far, and I hope yours has been great.

[bad_juice]

I'm also planning a year-in-review type post, due for publication sometime around Wednesday.

I used to have a camera just like that one.

I'm far more interesting on the internet than I am in real life. Or at least, feel that I am. The only reason I seem to do anything in real iife anymore is so that I can come back and write about it on the internet.

Now, with my current job, the internet is easily more my life than the "real world" is.

I used Audiogalaxy and I have no idea what the first song I downloaded is. I wish I could remember shit like that. I do remember my first introduction to movie criticism via the internet was reading Ebert's review of Bringing Out the Dead. Even back then I only used the internet for chatting with people, and then I noticed that Ebert had his own special deal with Compuserve(my ISP at the time) and saw he gave it four stars and read the review. Hah. I didn't even remember that I remembered that until just now.

[msnvwls]

The only reason I seem to do anything in real iife anymore is so that I can come back and write about it on the internet.

I'm kind of afraid of that, but at the same time, I'm not so sure it'd be a bad thing. I mean, I like the people on the internet a lot more than I like the people in real life.

[bad_juice]

It is nothing to fear. One day, if all goes well, we'll live our whole lives on the internet and never leave the house.

That's my hope, anyway.

I'm just waiting until a grocery store advertises free online delivery and I'm there.

[msnvwls]

I'm just waiting until we figure out how to send physical objects through cyberspace.

See this new couch I downloaded?

[doctorzombie]

I remember searching for the Gremlins theme song and finding it in midi format on the internet. I don't remember my first mp3s at all.
I do remember playing some game where you shoot floating skulls on prodigy beta.
Yeah, we had all the computer stuff way early.

[msnvwls]

Dude! Fucking Prodigy internet, that shit was awesome. I remember playing this game where you tried to get across the room without falling in a hole and dying or something ridiculous like that.

[doctorzombie]

i am pretty sure it had skulls man
fucking skulls!
then we moved onto AOL beta, and we had AOL for years until dad got us cable.
hotness.

[msnvwls]

Sounds like my experience, too, almost exactly. What was terrible for me, though, was that we had cable for a month or two and then went back to dial-up. You should never be forced to use dial-up after having cable.

your mom is pretty fucking faggoty

[msnvwls]

That's one of the most recent songs I've downloaded, actually.

[courtiscahoot]

Happy Holidays!

There should be a law stating never to re-read old entries. I get depressed when I do it too. Why must we inflict this pain? haha, oh wells it can be exciting to read old entries as well. Double-edged sword, really.

I'm glad we met! Exciting lj friends.

[msnvwls]

More exciting than I used to be, anyway, haha. I'm glad we met, too, and I'm definitely with you on creating laws against reading old entries.

Merry Christmas