h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm sitting here having just celebrated my 10th anniversary of using the internet, starting off with Foothills all those years ago, and spending a week in the States with my oldest net.friend (Foothills, Surfers, Mars Base Alpha 4) - Thankyou Owl for reminding people the net has been around longer than all these fancy graphics, XML, multimedia, broadband...

Text...


...just plain text....DOS and a 386, or even a Vax machine...bliss!

And I still have the same name, even now

I'm a recent spod (by spod terms) as I'm only ikkle, but I know people have been around as long as you...

What name do you use on Surfers? I might have seen you around...

~

I was MrdaSilva (or Mr.daSilva, maybe even just daSilva, can't remember *lol*) - I don't know if my account's still active there though, x-me and find out *grins*

I pop onto MBA4 (Mars Base Alpha 4) from time to time as just plain old daSilva

I remember the parties at Warwick Uni with 100+ people from all over the UK/US taking over the student's union (airport lounge bar) back in the mid 90's (and yes, I have met Burble IRL )

Hmm, no pfiles for any of those three names on Surfers.

I've never been to MBA4, might have to check it out sometime. Mind you, I've never been to Foothills or Snowplains either.

meeting Burble irl, I've never met a spod (except Nitina, of course... it would be hard to marry her without meeting her, but then I've known her longer than she's been a spod)...

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Ah, the fun we had back then - He was interviewed for a BBC2 program presented by Gillian Anderson about the near future of technology if I remember right, oh, what was the name now?

Funnily enough, where I was a student (Staffs Uni in Stoke) we met up with more spods from Keele than the two Unis mixing in any other way - many long stories

Heheh. Sounds like I've really brought back a lot of memories for you....

The late nights,


the patrties,


the travelling,


the dating!


failing so many courses

...parties even

I didn't have any of that... downside of meeting the perfect partner at uni, I guess. No, wait! There aren't any downsides!

Some of us get lucky

I'm one of those annoying people who always rolls sixes on dice...

Don't ever lose it, you don't wanna end up like me

Awwww...

But I don't need luck now I've got Nitina.

We've lost the plot of this conversation a bit, haven't we?

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There was a plot?

Oh yes, Talkers, EW-Too, those were the days

Those _are_ the days! I still spod every day!

Thanks Owl for that! I feel the same way!

Back off the plot again, are we?

*covers us so as not to bother daSilva... *

Now... back onto the conversation...

Don't mind me, I'm just reminiscing

Sorry, daSilva... not trying to exclude you!

No worries, I'm well aware I'm the old man of the internet in these here parts