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Ten Years Ago

annathepiper — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:40:33 +0000

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!

Site update

annathepiper — Fri, 09 Jan 1998 17:48:37 +0000

Tweaked my bio a bit; there’s a picture of me there now as well as a blurb on why my account name is Dewshine.

Site update

annathepiper — Thu, 30 Oct 1997 06:17:45 +0000

SAS link off the index now active. Changes to the bios of Rillwhisper, Woodhawk, Rayek, and Moonshade in my characters section; Short Bios page in my characters section updated to having proper background, and the broken table problem on that page is also now fixed.

Site update

annathepiper — Wed, 22 Oct 1997 04:03:28 +0000

I have a new background graphic — drawn and scanned in and thrown through Photoshop by me, and it’s simple, but I’m proud of it. It may be distributed around the net at will, but be nice and tell me if you swipe it. ;) I wanted to lose the leaf-border graphic as it was causing some table weirdness I couldn’t figure out in Netscape.

I’ve also updated my job status on my bio, for anybody who actually pays attention to such things.

And y’all may notice the niftykeen wolf graphic I have on my index now; this is from Theresa Robeson, creator of the forthcoming Wolfrider’s Guide to Elfquest, and it is her Recognition Award for excellence in Elfquest-related sites. Now, my site isn’t particularly Elfquest-related, but hey, who am I to argue with pretty pictures of wolves? :)