Quiver & Quill

Goodbye Poet4dylan.

Do we ever say goodbye to our old online identities when we grow into new ones?
It’s funny how we discover the online identities of our friends and co-workers.
It  happened recently when I was sending a document to a client whose servers went down.

“Ok, ok, send it to my personal email, but don’t laugh.”

Her personal email was something like, pinkprincess15@aol.com, and she was in her mid-twenties. I laughed and did not comment. But I wanted to hear the story behind pinkprincess15.

Goodbye Poet4Dylan.

That was my online identity, formed when the movie Dangerous Minds came out, and the poets Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan where compared. It was my first screen name on American Online 1.0, my first chat room and the early and strange experiences of going to school having in person conversations at day and by night having online conversations that were very different with the same folks.

Goodbye Poet4dylan.

Do we have an online memory? Can this be a part of who we are—a vivid as trips to Disneyland and Grandma’s house, as distinct as Little League and first steps. I think so.

Hello Quiver&Quill.

Along these lines, I read a blog post that you might enjoy. It’s almost a literary account of what Chelsea, from Chelsea Talks Smack, misses. Give it a read.

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