But why were we down on Geocities? Or people hand-coding? I regret this exchange in 2023

Me: I know you don’t like, look at my twitter or whatever, but did you see this
Adam: holy shit that is geocities as fuck. I think that’s indicative of something. it’s not that geocities cites are terrible by nature, it’s that people can’t design for shit. and since geocities had no templates, like tumblr does, it was just abundant
Me: Yes. When people don’t use templates, tragedy strikes.

Why do some tumblrs look like they’re geocities pages from 1998? (note from 2023 Rachel - because they were rad)

Gateway 2000 Colorbook

Today I was remembering my very first laptop; a Gateway 2000 Colorbook that my father cast off and gave to me. I used it from about 1999 - 2004. All I remember about it is that it had a 512MB hard drive, a floppy disk drive, and Spider Solitaire, so it must’ve been running Windows ‘98. I mostly used it for word processing (and solitaire), and using it made me feel like a real writer (which I am not and have never been). I began many a terrible novella on that computer. I even used it to take notes during my first year of undergrad, although by then it was obviously past its prime. I bet it would still boot if I tried (/if I knew where it was). 

My very _first _computer was a TI-99/4A, which I mostly used to play TI Invaders and Sneggit, and frankly I wish I could go back in time and not throw it away.

Note from 2022 Rachel, I Don’t Feel Like Hating Two and a Half Men Took up This Much of my Brain