The joy of text
October 10, 2011Over the last month I’ve finally embraced text messaging. It’s a nice way to deliver short messages fast without the imposition of a phone call.
Texting has also gotten me thinking about my adoption of communication technology in general.
* First regular use of email (as 95gjc@williams.edu): spring 1992
* First regular use of World-Wide Web: 1996
* First courtship relying heavily on email: March 1998
* First personal web page: 1999 (?)
* First cell phone: 1999 (?)
* First non-student/non-work email address (trappedinlab@yahoo.com): June 2000
* First email from grandmother: 2004
* Ceased to have a land line at home: 2004
* First consistent use of blogs (reading and writing): 2006
* First home wireless network: 2007 (?)
* First tweet: May 27, 2009
* First smartphone: 2012?
My Track Record 
My first email address was (and is) lsh@u(dot)washington(dot)edu (with the obvious replacements for ‘dot’). Whenever I give it out to someone (for work purposes, when ordering, etc.) they always marvel at how simple the ‘lsh’ is and ask how I got that. I tell ’em it helps to have been around when the internet took hold.