You're probably wondering how or why my online presence is (mostly) under the pseudonym of “billspaced.”
If you aren't wondering, kindly move along. Nothin' to see here.
It's really a simple, short story. It all began in 1995.
My roommate really really wanted to get this thing called “AOL.” I had no clue what that was. I was working a really difficult retail job (yes, they exist), where I got up every day, went to work at variable retail hours, had a 30 minute lunch, went back to work, and then came home and pretty much went to sleep.
That was my day.
Anyhoo…getting back to this story I said was short…Ron wanted to get America Online.
Two problems:
- I didn't know what it was.
- We didn't have a computer.
Further, we'd have to get a “modem.” (Listen to this shit!)
Not having $2,000, I did the typically American thing and bought a top-of-the-line brand-new PC on credit. It came with a modem. I think it may have been a Pentium running at about 16Mhz with maybe 16Mb of RAM and a whopping 850Mb hard drive.
Classy.
We opened the CD-ROM drive, inserted the AOL “coaster,” and let ‘r rip!
Hell, tbh, it may have been one of these:
In no time (20 minutes) we had AOL rip roarin'. Then it came. The program asked me to create a username.
Bill Davis didn't work. Bill D didn't work. Apparently, all variations of “Bill Dxxx” were taken.
Fuck me!
My roommate suggested “Bill [space] D” but the mofo AOL didn't like spaces, either. So I typed in, bill space d (without the spaces).
Thus, “billspaced” was born.
Now you can find me nearly everywhere as billspaced.
Well, except for on twitter because those miscreants permabanned me when I called somebody a cunt.
I may share that story at some point down the road.
Until then, make is a great day!
With love,
Bill aka billspaced