{"id":281,"date":"2003-11-21T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=281"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"irc-nostalgia-and-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/irc-nostalgia-and-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"IRC Nostalgia and The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through the whole buffer of #13thHour when returning to my computer in the morning has become somewhat impossible, but sometimes I skim through it if I feel so inclined. I noticed someone with the nickname &#8220;Tchaikovsky&#8221; dropped by #13thHour last night, she used to go by Tearus. Now I remembered her, that she was a close friend of one of my ex&#8217;s, but I remembered little other than that. So I dug through my #13thHour logs from 1999 to remember (of course I have irc logs from 1999, what kind of packrat would I be if I didn&#8217;t?). It seems that when I broke up with that guy she left the channel with him, and we ended up not liking each other very much. According to what I can see in the logs this was never really resolved. Still, it was interesting to see someone from way back in the day finding us, since we aren&#8217;t on scifi anymore. And hey, it&#8217;s been four years since we last spoke, my ex is happily married with a son and I communicate with him a couple times a year, certainly Tearus couldn&#8217;t hold anything against me still.<\/p>\n<p>Of course since I opened these old logs I HAD to do more searching through them %)<\/p>\n<p>I started using IRC back in October of 1998. <lj-cut>No, I wasn&#8217;t one of those people who has been online since 1994, I really wasn&#8217;t seriously into computers until 1999 (sure, I had a small interest before that). I wasn&#8217;t even online until 1998 (but I did have roadrunner cable internet, ph33r me). I used to drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\"<\/a>Scifi.com<\/a> to play some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/screengrab\/caption.cgi\">Caption This!<\/a> often, and while I was there one day I noticed that there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/chat\/chatnow.html\">java chat<\/a>. My experience up to this point in chat had only been watching a friend of mine chat on AOL, which was horrible, so I was reluctant to join this, but hey, there were fun people on Caption This! maybe they&#8217;d be cool in chat too. I joined through the java chat client, I didn&#8217;t even know what IRC was.<\/p>\n<p>I met a few very nice people in those last 3 months of 1998. I still email brak, Exeplis, and Camadon a couple times a year, I still communicate regularly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottercomics.com\/tongue\/\">Locdog07<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/peacimowen\/\">Peacimowen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lupinstarshine4\/\">Simba<\/a>, and Aquarius. And of course, I live with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevilacqua.us\">Time<\/a> (Myk). We had some fun times back then, I met all these people in a channel called #Tom_Servo (windows calls the log file #tom_s~1.log &#8230; *groan*). Good times, Peacimowen, Time and I even celebrated the 1998-99 new year together. Looking at the logs it seems #13thHour, in it&#8217;s official form (there was a channel or two before it where we all talked, but not called #13thHour) was created in January of 1999.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done being nostalgic now, I&#8217;ll save those wonderful stories of meeting online people for another time.<\/p>\n<p>I now have the whole second season (6 episodes) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/\">The Office<\/a>, the DVD hasn&#8217;t been released in the US yet, so my methods of receiving these episodes aren&#8217;t completely evil ;) This is the only way I can see them! I haven&#8217;t watched them yet though, maybe this weekend or later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Oh joy it&#8217;s friday! I did some cleaning this morning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/Cargo.html\">Cargo<\/a> is coming over for the weekend, yay! Now I&#8217;m going to do some work on some stuff. *wanders off*<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through the whole buffer of #13thHour when returning to my computer in the morning has become somewhat impossible, but sometimes I skim through it if I feel so inclined. I noticed someone with the nickname &#8220;Tchaikovsky&#8221; dropped by #13thHour last night, she used to go by Tearus. 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