First time you met her

Remember the first time, that you met, her.

It started up with a dial-tone, a series of telephone keypad beeps, a pulsating fax-esque (hah, betcha can’t pronounce that!) tones, then it all begin.

The negotiation. Its kinda like two lawyer arguing, roaring at each other back and forth in a course tone. When the Grandfather’s clock chime twice, you know you’re half way through.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I’m talking about the internet!

My first experience was on a RM 10k Apple Macintosh G3, the pre-iMac one. It was blazing fast! We pumped up the RAM from 32MB, to a whopping 96MB. We felt god-like.

Back in those days, IDD phone calls were damn expensive. My sister, who was studying in HELP KL created an account for me, it was philipkhor38@hotmail.com . Only problem was, she forgot to drop me an e-mail!

I was at my friend Nicholas Thien @NTMJ house, login to my account. (while waiting for my mac to arrive from cupertino)

It was about RM 4 per minute IDD rate: “Eh, che (sister).. “send” liao boey?” During that time, I also changed my default password to a 6-letter “m” word that a lot of you might know! Ha ha ha…

Ah.. the days of IRC, and ICQ “uh-uh”!

One of my e-mails back in 2001, educating my friends about the severity of junk / chain mails. Even back then I was this geeky technocrat.

Nov 2001 10:52:21 +0000
Subject: Re: ?
Heylo…..

Hmm… VERY SPENDID idea to SEND THIS JUNK CHAIN MAIL TO ME!

It may sound.. *ahem* sexy to send it out… but it’s CAUSING INTERNET TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

What I’m trying to say, is that, whenever you send ONE SINGLE MAIL to 13 different friends .. you ARE ACTUALLY slowing the Net down.

Here’s how. This e-mail is 33 K heavy! Your modem does 6K/s max. Basically, that’s 5 seconds of… web surfing, let’s say.. So, if you do the Maths, 5 seconds X 13 friends = 65 seconds of internet time surfing WASTED on your “CHAIN MAIL” forwarding!

Well, AT LEAST 13 friends x 33 K = 429 KiloBYTES (or 0.4 MB) of data traffic is wasted!

The main and bad intention of these CHAIN MAIL creators are simple. To PERSUADE “less informed” people to send this around the Net – at the same time, create what we call “Net congestion”. The INTERNET SLOWS DOWN.

PEOPLE’S MAILBOXES will be FLOODED with all these stuff. Hard Disk space is FILLED within hours (for E-mail providers such as Hotmail).

If chain mail is TOTALLY STOPPED, E-Speed (ADSL) could have been cheaper (Bandwidth is CHEAPER) and less servers are needed for people who FORWARD CHAIN MAIL… which in turn means LESS COST FOR EXPENSIVE SERVERS sending and receiving… CHAIN MAIL.

Of course, this is lovely and all but think twice before SPAMMING.

Love,
Pip

http://go.to/f3g

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:52:21 +0000
Subject: Re: (2ND REPLY)
……..

Oh, and “the rest” shouldn’t be happy that you “revealed” their addies to someone.

Sorry if these replies are… not nice.. but then..
Just telling ya da facts! =)

One more reason not to FWD chain mail is because E-mail addresses are REVEALED. If you look at what you’ve just sent, hundreds of e-mail addresses are seen. What if your chain mail falls into the hands of porn operators (yes, there are such people).. or even.. EVIL people who deliberately subscribe LOTSA porn to your e-mail address.

THIS IS HOW DIRTY STUFF GETS TO YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS..

STOP CHAIN MAIL NOW!

Sorry if u feel offended.
=)

Love,
Pip

Oh, and I had the best e-mail addresses back then!

>
>>From: Pip Khoon >>Reply-To: pip@spl.at
>>To: pkhor@mac.com
>>Subject: Heheh!!
>>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>29th September 2001 @ 1:05 pm
>>
>>Promise: I, Philip H.K. Khor will not go online until the 22nd October
>>2001. However, if I feel I would like to do so, I can – but with a 5 minute
>>limit per day.
>>
>>E-Signed: Philip
>>
>>P.S. Wanna join?

AU revoir, we are off to learn Font-say!

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