![]() ![]() I just made my away message Fiona Apple lyrics and it was pure serotonin I also had a Sim named Magenta Curry around this time in my life. I was Magenta512, for the character I most identified with from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (which yes, I’ve already unpacked exhaustively), Magenta. who I guess saw as like daddy inspiration, and this radio station in the bay area called Live105 which was where I listened to Nirvana, Bush, The Counting Crows, Weezer, Everclear and all my favorite bands. Umm, mine was GRIF105 which was a baseball reference to Ken Griffey Jr. I can’t even explain how much this choice makes me physically uncomfortable to this day □□♀️ I’m here to sheepishly report that my screen name was urbanbeauty13. I was pinkskittle619 on AIM and then switched to mIzZgUrLiEgUrL when we got AOLĪOL was sybagirl. I got pissed off at her, but then she finally explained that “xxx” referred to sex/porn/explicit content/etc and I was so embarrassed that that memory is stronger for me than my actual screenname itself. I do not remember my screen name but in case it’s helpful, I desperately wanted my screenname to involve “xxx” because I thought that’s what the cool girls had, and then my mom told me I couldn’t. My first AIM Screen name was PopTartGod, because I loved pop tarts more than anything in the world My AIM screenname was lovexpeacexunity and I have NO COMMENT My AOL screenname was GeorgiaMntnBiker, which sums up several things about my personality that are still true to this day: I am very Southern, riding a bike is my favorite activity, and I have never been capable or interested in being coy. ![]() My screen name was horses4eva90, so I am required by law to be gay now. i’m glad i don’t remember those ones verbatim Mine was DratiniJ for a while, which is a pokemonĪnd then i had a lot with underscores and x’s in it. We were very into Sporty Spice and, well, aliens.) We had the very original ButterflyGirl713 and BroadwayGirl713 (worth noting here that my birthday is not, as these would suggest, July 13th), SportyAlien3 (Sporty Aliens 1 and 2 were my friends Lisa and Kasey. Though to be honest once I started choosing them on my own they weren’t much better. My very first one, my mom made up for me, because I was in like 5th grade… it was AceReader. Wow I literally have aim up while writing an article as an out queer girl in my own apartment. I could keep SprtsFreek1224 from my elementary school days but I’m not trying to prove as much now But mostly just good old wholesome chatting with friends!Ĭurious what your friendly Autostraddle writers and editors’ screen names were? Let’s surf the Information Superhighway back down memory lane! I asked out my first girlfriend over AIM! A lot of breakups also happened over AIM. Shelli started it, by posting a picture in our Slack of a laptop logged into 1997chat – a simple web service that allows you to relive the 90s by utilizing a clunky, basic instant messenger client that looks a lot like AIM, which everyone born between 19 (and surely lots of other folks as well) was using every single night. Remember when it cost a few cents to send a text? When the Internet seemed so full of potential to positively transform society? When we were gracefully shielded from the truth because presidents didn’t have a tool to constantly let us all know their terrible inner thoughts, and we didn’t have a literally unlimited number of perfect-looking “regular” people with amazing lives to compare ourselves against? The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinemaįor those of us over a certain age, 90s nostalgia is hitting right now.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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