Anthology of Snippets

Your DIGITAL footprints, that is.

I am in a bit of a stump right now, and a slew of articles have my name on it. So I figured, why not stretch my brain muscles a bit and see how far I can let my brain reach into the depths of Internet abyss? Actually, my teacher/friend’s blog inspired me to make this post as a bit of a tribute to the Internet and my 11 years of roaming around the World Wide Web.

First, let me ask you this question:

How many Internet accounts do you have and are these still active?

Me? Oh I do not have a lot of accounts online. Hrhrhr.. you can ask my friends if they can keep up with all the accounts I have, I’m sure they can answer you the number. However, if I had to answer you, I could say: I HAVE NO IDEA. Lainee calls me a person suffering from split personality, but I beg to differ. How about you tell me what you think after I TRY to remember everything? Oh, there will be no links.. heeheehee hop on memory train and let’s see what I did…

I started using the Internet in 1998. I got addicted to mIRC and playing games. My first nick on mIRC #dumaguete channel was ‘smooches_oui‘. That would be 2nd year high school me. Next nick that still stuck until now is ‘lurchelle‘, and that would be that.

Now, I shall make a list and just indicate how many accounts I have with the website or something like that…

Emails: It is not a chronic thing I have with emails, I just … have a habit.

• Yahoo (5 – 4 currently active)
• Gmail (10 all active)
• Eudoramail (2 – dead emails)
• TwinstarsMail (1 – dead email)
• Mail.com (1 – dead email)
• Lycos (3 – dead email)
• AOL (2 – 1 currently active)
• Hotmail (2 – dead emails)
• SquirrelMail (3 – dead emails because they were hosted by a company)
• … I cannot remember all.

Web host(?): For making websites and stuff

• Geocities (3 – its there but no longer used)
• Tripod (3 – I don’t think these are active, I have not yet checked)
• Angelfire (2 – inactive)
• Google Sites aka Google Pages (2 that I can think of)
• Webs aka Freewebs (3 – I don’t think these are active, I have not yet checked)
• FreeHostia (1 trial, 2 made as of the past few days because of desperation)
• Weebly (1 – inactive)
• …

Social Networking/Micro-blogging sites: Isn’t this the trend these days? Heehee..

• Twitter (3 active accounts)
• Plurk (1)
• Tumblr (2 active accounts)
• Facebook (1)
• Friendster (1)
• Multiply (3 – 1 active account)
• hi5 (1)
• Tagged (1)
• Ping.fm (1)
• Posterous (1)
• Bolt.com (2 inactive since 2000) << I was very active in 1998-1999 (older than Facebook!)
• Classmates.com (1)
• DailyBooth (1)
• deviantART (1)
• Flixter (1)
• Flickr (2 – 1 active)
• Fotolog (1)
• Gaia Online (1 – inactive because I just joined to check on my sister)
• imeem (1)
• Jaiku (1)
• LinkedIn (1)
• MySpace (1)
• Ning (1)
• Orkut (1)
• Ryze (1)
• Shelfari (1)
• StumbleUpon (2 – 1 active)
• WAYN (1)
• Yahoo! 360 (2 inactive accounts)
• Yahoo Meme

Blogs: Here come the blogs!! Well, these may be merged with those above.. So I may have mixed them with the ones above.

• Blogspot (8 blogs)
• Bloglines (1)
• WordPress.COM (4 – 3 inactive; 1 removed)
• Vox (1 inactive)
• Xanga (1 inactive – my very first blog was hosted there)
• Tabulas (1 inactive – 2nd blog was hosted there)
• Self-hosted blogs [blogs that have domains and were hosted by paid webhosts]  – the maximum number of blogs I had for a year reached around 30 blogs. Now I only have the free web hosts, and 2 active blogs that have their own domains.
• Photoblog (1)

…uhm.. That should be all for now, I know I have other accounts, but if I revealed them to you, you might say I am an Internet addict, which I am NOT by the way. I am just a normal Internet user. I am pretty sure nobody’s jaw dropped with what I shared. But it does feel good to be able to delve into my memories and extract what can be extracted.

You know, I did not get my first computer until 2001, and back in 1998-2001, I had to use computers in Internet cafes, and some of these Internet cafes even billed users Php. 50.00 or so.

I will not disclose other websites I have accounts with, like Google Wave, Reddit, Furl, Digg, forums, and all that other stuff because… … just ‘coz! However, if you ask me what Instant Messaging systems I am online at everyday, these would be: GTalk, AIM, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger. Oh don’t ask how many IM accounts I have.. shhhh…

Well, that was fun. Now I shall proceed with my regular programming. hrhrhrhr…

The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat ~Dave Barry