hnpcc | 10 friends meme

nicked from

barrington. The 10 people I've known longest in my friends list.

This took a while because I had to remember who = where = when. I think this is is right. The things in brackets are what I'm using to remember the years.

shnetti,

droxina, and

barrington I met IRL (in order I think it went

shnetti then

droxina, then

barrington?) and online via atvrd and the mailing list in 1995. All of us were at Multiverse 1, although some of us don't actually remember others being there. I also met

sardy both IRL at the first Meet up in Sydney in 1995, which

sardy,

droxina and myself were at, and via atvrd. And I have photos from that Meet still. God we look young... ;-) (Escaping bad triple ligation cloning experience). I remember

barrington much better from the DJJ Day(s), but I already knew you previously so I think that must have been from M1 and M2. And isn't it bad to have friends who can remember the dodgy things you did when you were 17, but you don't know the dodgy things they did? Good for us, anyway. ;-)

Presumably I encountered

frieda on atvrd in 1995 as well, although I'm certain he wouldn't have noticed me until quite a bit later. I'm quiet, OK? Whereas the first time I hit atvrd was in the middle of an NGPOTY campaign. The first post I opened had "Vote Friday" several million times through it. Disturbingly, that would also put

charlesd quite high on the list. Or quite high at least. Definitely 95 though.

ang_grrr,

gamemaker,

hawkida,

epideme,

dsn,

_jamez_,

tomburnell,

polyhedra,

prid09,

jakebullet and

ajr I encountered on atvrd and, when I got to work early enough, on #starbug as well some time between 1995-1999. I really quite honestly have no idea when people came online (I'm bad at remembering things like that).

hawkida and

gamemaker
came out to Oz and I met them then (97? Nah, noisy car. '99? When did you guys come out?). I finally met

polyhedra IRL in Sydney in late 97 (virus work) and again at his wedding in 98 (after virus work). ;-)

dsn and

epideme came out for Multiverse 3 which was definitely the start of 1998 (being on a committee helps focus the mind).

epideme didn't leave again ;-) and

dsn's still out on a regular basis. ;-)

I seem to be having major trouble remembering the 90s. See kids, that's why you don't do postgrad degrees. They screw with your mind.

ETA jakebullet because my brain really has died. Anyone else I've forgotten?