How I Met My Husband

     


    If you can recall in my first blog, I wrote about my earliest experiences with technology. I would be remised if I didn’t talk about how technological advances have changed my adult life. Disclaimer, it’s not as exciting as you might think…

    I’m sure by now, most people have experience with internet and email. But how many of us remember aol? America Online? Dial-up? Chances are, your birth year doesn’t have a 19 in front of it then you may not. Believe it or not, 90s internet actually used the landline phone (yes, landline, as in home phone…). I will always remember hearing “I’M ON THE PHONE!” As my mother would holler down the stairs whenever I attempted to log in without asking first. Once she finished her phone conversation, she would let me know that it was ok to sign into my aol account. I was in about sixth grade at the time so no, I wasn’t checking my email. I was checking my instant messages.

    Before Facebook messenger, google duo, or text or iMessage, we had AIM which stood for AOL Instant Messenger. Consider it a text message but from your computer. The messages were, in fact, instant. You could have a real-time conversation with your friend(s) via the internet. You could even create fun, catchy screen names. The caveat: you all had to be signed in at the same time. Otherwise the sent message would sit, unread, until the next time the receiving party logged into their account. See? Kind of like texting.

    As my friends and I moved onto High School, we mostly moved on from aim. Its replacement: cell phones and Facebook. Cellphones had a 10-digit keypad and Facebook was bare bones compared to what it is today. We could text from our phones (google search T9 Word) and Facebook was always wondering “What’s on your mind?” Got your cellphone taken away? No biggie! Just post on their wall or send them a Facebook message! If “sliding into your DM’s” has an originator, it was our generation. Facebook put a “new school” spin on online dating. Which, as cringy as it may seem, is how I met my husband.

                                                         

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