On 14th April 2004, I joined AOL for its dial-up service. We all remember the unworldly creaking noises as the 40 kilobyte per second connection was set up. Nowadays, I enjoy 37 megabytes per second, a thousand times fast. And in some places, internet speeds are measured in gigabytes per second, another factor of thousand quicker.
I found myself embroiled in an internet chatroom of dubious repute, until my circumstances changed. From 2005, I became involved in AOL J-land, a community of bloggers. I became friends with people like the much missed Donna Diggins, then more familiarly known as nightmaremom, and Sugar Lewis, who has now disappeared of the radar, and might well have passed away. More than 60 of our friends have died in those 20 years.
Who knows what the coming years will bring?
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