I wish I had saved emails and IMs from AOL back then and I’ll never be able to get those back after my parents closed the account. They’re out there floating around in space somewhere and what I wouldn’t give to know what my 1996 brain was thinking back then and take a look back. I was a senior in high school and it was just such a blissful, simpler time. Maybe because it was pre 9/11? Or pre social media? I don’t know-my DD is in high school now and I just wish she could grow up when I did. Things seem much harder and darker now.

This $107 billion budget deficit is disastrous. If we work together maybe we can balance the budget within the next few years.

When the world was still simple.

I can still hear that dial up....

I miss AOL.

Anyone want to do Happy Hour at Theisman’s
Old Town?

Anonymous wrote:I have at home an Internet Phone Book in Hardcopy from 1996. You look up by category and it gives you websites.

I want that! I had no idea how to find websites, so I mainly used the Internet for email and chat.

ICQ

I miss Georgetown Cotton & C0

I’m heading to Fair Oaks Mall to get some suits for my first job - gonna try Casual Corner, Cache & The Limited (Outback Red). I’ll end up buying button covers for my plain navy suit and several shell tops from Dress Barn.

Got an oxblood briefcase as a grad gift! Hope I can get away with a blazer and skirt rather than an actual suit. I’m pulling my long hair back into a low ponytail clipped with a satiny bow or sometimes I’ll do a satiny headband.

I’ll ruin my new 9West pumps on the Old Town cobblestone first day.

I have at home an Internet Phone Book in Hardcopy from 1996. You look up by category and it gives you websites.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a stick shift Nissan Sentra with a new teen driver on the road. Watch out 1996!

ha. my first car was a nissan sentra, manual steering. And I'm a very petite female.

I had a stick shift and manual steering nissan as my first car in DC. Parallel parking that thing was a b****.

Anonymous wrote:Starting to worry about Y2K guys. Know any COBOL programmers?

Exactly!!!!

Anonymous wrote:Why are you all wasting your time on this weird thing called the... uh... internet? That's for the dweebs and dorks in the computer lab in the basement. I mean, computers? Come on. I have a real life to live, thank you.

I'm 51, and I feel like by 1996 people my age had fully embraced the internet and did not consider it for dweebs and dorks.

Anonymous wrote:You've got mail!

I still have my AOL account. You can rip it from my cold dead hands.