Comments on: Geektown USA

By: dio

dio — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:16:49 +0000

Awwww….I was in labor only during the late nights for 5 days before I gave my birth to my son…10 yrs ago on 3/20….the first day of Spring!….I spent all those nights on the “web”…stay green! D…happy memories!

By: erat

erat — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:04:25 +0000

Wow, I was just thinking about Yahoo a few days back. A group of us were chatting at school and Yahoo came up. I recalled how they had a section on their main web page that listed all the sites they added to their search database that week. Can you imagine? A list of four or five sites added over the span of a week? That happens something like every half second nowadays.

Ahhh, the old Internet. Bad web pages, gopher, finger, shell archives, ftpmail at decwurl, The Well…

It brings a tear to my eye.

By: coskel

coskel — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:31:25 +0000

boy did it bug me that I had to turn off my firewall to see the “netrospective”.

By: jenna

jenna — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:14:08 +0000

My first website…I got a book out of the library and loaded some lame-ass early version of AOL with a lame-ass dialup connection. I typed in the address. The book was written by a young guy and recommended his favorite site which was “My Girlfriend, Claudia Schiffer”. I remember it took 10 minutes to load 1/2 way and I called my husband over and we marveled in awe at some blurry 1/2 loaded images of Claudia. Ah, the old days.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:22:08 +0000

Wow. I remember the first time I accessed the internet. I was in grade school. I looked up figure skating!

I also remember hating the school computers. In fact, I think the first time I hated the school computers was when the schools got internet. Before that we just played Oregon Trail and that Amazon river game.

By: Echo

Echo — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:12:58 +0000

Made it!!! Just been reading all of your work (took a few weeks). I’ve got to give props to you and your lady. You guys are the most dynamic modern couple.

For what Yahoo started as and is now, it goes to show where we’ve come from and are destined to go. I’m a Yahoo slut, and proud of it.

Thanks for writing, putting it out there, and letting it come back. And what amazing shots!

By: Coelecanth

Coelecanth — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 23:56:19 +0000

Love the design of that Yahoo matrix. Didn’t really read anything just played around it and admired the cleverness. Can’t decide if that’s geeky or just sad….

By: marsha

marsha — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:41:37 +0000

oh and Mahir totally rules

By: marsha

marsha — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:36:52 +0000

I just bought a SHUFFLE!!! Geek on THAT! It’s on a string! Around my NECK!!!! I AM UBERGEEK! Bow down and worship me now. Seirously. I wear this walking around new york people. Geeky as hell…(oh and I also like to make databases and get excited when I figure elegent ways to store and relate data.)

By: GN

GN — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:46:08 +0000

The Mahir sensation is much like Ali G’s “Borat” character who is also hilarious, if you haven’t seen him yet.