So, ICQ is shutting down. I decided to log in one last time, since I still, miraculously, have my original credentials. UIN 5437541, password unchanged since 1998—still rolls right off the fingers. This isn’t what ICQ actually looked like for me when I was using it, but this is the...
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Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. After nearly a decade of just barely existing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it. At this point, I think just about everyone–but especially folks in the software...
A lot of contemporary video game players take online communications for granted—after all, online services have been a standard feature in consoles for nearly fifteen years at this point1. However, before the ubiquity of the internet there was a time when some clever cartridges let gamers run up to the...