Ten Years Ago

[annathepiper]

There’s a fun meme going around Twitter today with the hash tag #10yearsago. For the benefit of those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, here are my contributions! It’s fun to write these down, especially given that this year was before I was regularly doing anything like blogging.

Y’all will notice there’s a whole lot of fandom and geekery here. This would be because, well, I was indulging in a lot of fandom and geekery that year! Which has certainly not changed at all in the ten years since.

• #10yearsago Mylee Ejercito drew me a Shenner picture! http://www.annathepiper.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shenner3.jpg
• #10yearsago I was still totally fangirling on Strongbow from Elfquest, enough that I had a web page dedicated to him!
• #10yearsago X-Files was starting to wear out its welcome at the Murk, but ZOMG Season 3 of Buffy. Big, big fun. Mayor FTW. <3
• #10yearsago Had big fun seeing The Matrix, Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2, and The Mummy, and OK fine ogled Ewan MacGregor in Phantom Menance. ;)
• HA I was wrong. My Presario laptop was NOT running XP. It was running Windows 98 and I upgraded to SE that year. #10yearsago
• #10yearsago Phantom Menace came out! Mimi and I were in line for a late show with a kid with blue hair. We played Egyptian Rat Screw!
• #10yearsago We didn’t go to Worldcon in Australia but DID go to NASFiC in Anaheim and had a 3-day marathon Disneyland run! Indy ride FTW!
• #10yearsago I’d quit PernMUSH, BUT! I was still writing in Pern fandom offline in Telgar Weyr, as brownrider Tember and bronzerider J’marr.
• #10yearsago I was still using a Compaq Presario as my laptop, and it was running XP, and I was FINE with that. Poor deluded 1999 me! ;)
• #10yearsago Wayfound was born at the Willowholt on Two Moons MUSH, and I destroyed the Willowholt in floods at the end of the year.
• #10yearsago Tance Vokrim was my surviving character on CrystalMUSH, and he got his beloved Kesya back halfway through that year.
• #10yearsago I was playing Shenner and Han Solo on Star Wars MUSH and making people’s jaws drop that a girl was playing Solo.
• #10yearsago in addition to not knowing Great Big Sea yet, my dad was still alive, I worked at Attachmate, and I’d just joined AetherMUSH!
• In 1999 I was still living at MurkSouth and had not yet discovered either Russell Crowe or Great Big Sea. Had no idea what I was missing!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

This time ten years ago saw the end of my first college semester. Wow, what a decade.

[annathepiper]

It's been an exhausting one, that's for sure! Here's hoping the next one will be better.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Man, how did you remember all that stuff? After a certain while all the years just start to blur together for me. ;)

[annathepiper]

The movies and TV stuff I didn't actually remember until I looked up what movies and TV were out that year. *^_^*;;

All the stuff pertaining to MUSHes was easy, though--since I have all those log archives that I still have! :)

[astraether.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the MUSH-stuff. I still have all my old logs, too. I wonder if that qualifies me as a "digital hoarder." Regardless, they're still nice to have. I go on little rereading binges every few years.

[annathepiper]

*high-fives her fellow log-hoarder* Hell, I'm still periodically cleaning up old unedited logs to add them into the proper archive. I still have that many to do. :) And yeah, I love to re-read all the best ones every so often!

[ssha.livejournal.com]

10 years ago I had just moved into the grey house on 20th, I think. I was still with Thomas. I didn't know yet that I had a brain tumor.

I can't really think of much else at the moment.

[annathepiper]

*snugs!* Yeah, I could have added "I still had both of my breasts" to the list, I suppose, but I was trying not to go there. It's kind of hard to ignore big life-changing things like that, though!