Chat

Macbook madness
Originally uploaded by cdevroe.

I was a young man when the word pc was coined, I used the first piece of word processing software developed and chat rooms held 6 people. When chats only cost a few dollars a year and the memberships were usually less than a hundred you got to know the people pretty well. They usually lived a local call away and you usually figured out the phonies and freaks pretty fast. You usually knew pretty much who was on when and developed a bond with a group without having such a clutter of rooms and people to search through. Members met, were often neighbors, I never heard the horror stories that abound now. Not all chats were safe or well run but good administrators could keep the wierdos out pretty easily and the software was uncomplicated enough to kept tweaked to an optimum. I was an AOL'er when they hit their first million subscribers and I already missed the old chats then.