raydawg
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Was contacted by an old friend from many years ago, while still living down in SoCal. We met via a fishing forum message board. This was when 32 gigs was huge, and dial up was the connection. This site was a first of its kind, and enjoyed great success and had thousands of active members and hits/post/replies a day. It led to many fishing charters, barbques, etc.
I was pretty computer stupid, still am with all things considered 🙃 But it really was a great learning experience and led to many friendships and great times. One of the most powerful lessons I learned was that my perception, of who I thought a person was, via a keyboard and monitor, was soooooo wrong, when I met them in person. In reality it showed me more about who I was, and why, for assigning this imagine to them. 🤔 Also, being new to this stuff, I hooked my computer up to my business line. I spent hours in the site..... My business dropped off, huh? I got a phone bill for like 500 bucks 😵 WOW, that was a shocker! And changed my behavior 🤡
Anybody remember those days? It was like the Wild West, the gun fights, etc, were so entertaining, like slowing to look at a car accident on the interstate 🤓
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