The "Idiot Box" Revisited - The Last Few Years
Chronicles of an Adult Child of the Media
There's ALWAYS something on TV now!
Let's see, we're now into the decade of my forties, aren't we?
I am a late-bloomer, it seems. I didn't get a PC with Internet access until August 1995, and that was merely America Online. I only accessed AOL for "chatting," anyway, until late June of 1996.
Prior to then, I used my PC for word-processing (completing reports or other work at home), or playing Tetris™, Monopoly™, and a few other computer games. Most of the time, I practiced "recreational reading" and watched my favorite television shows. I picked up a second VCR to tape programs that aired while I was at work AND simultaneously as other shows I already taped on a regular basis.
Like what, you ask? (Okay, so you didn't ask, but I'm going to share my favorites with you anyway.)
Programs I have watched these past few years
- Quantum Leap
- Alien Nation
- Murder One
- The Simpsons
- ER
- Law and Order
- The X-Files
- Voyager
- Babylon 5
- High Incident
- Homicide -- Life On The Streets
- Real Stories of the CHP
- Frasier
- Earth 2
- Space - Above and Beyond
- King of The Hill
- America's Funniest Home Videos
Back in September '95, I had started a weekly chat session on AOL for Public Safety Dispatchers, and shared the logs of those sessions with a few folks at work -- many of whom didn't have computers, but one DID, and in March 1996, he suggested I check out the local ISP he used. Well, that became MY ISP, too; suddenly I was surfing the 'Net like a madwoman. (I hadn't liked AOL's browser, by the way -- and who does?) I was searching for diversion -- and I found it. After work, at midnight, I'd start looking for humor on the WWW. The first site I ever bookmarked was the C*E*A. (Next, I think, was Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.)
And then I discovered GeoCities!
Because I had struggled with AOL's Home Page editing system, I was delighted to discover how easy GeoCities made it to create a killer web-site: thus began the The Break Room for Public Safety Communications Personnel.
That site became my universe; I updated it several times a week -- sometimes, several times a day! At first, it was just a collection of my favorite web-sites, which I wanted to share with other dispatcher-types for stress relief. Then I started collecting Public Safety sites.... and it has grown and grown until it became everything I did when I wasn't at work.
I love working with HTML and creating something for the rest of the world to enjoy.
I became a Community Leader in the Heartland "neighborhood" of GeoCities. As a result of that role, this past January, I met a "homesteader" with a WebTV™ who was having difficulty with the GeoCities HTML editor, and I began to learn something about WebTV™.
On August 14th, 1997, I bought my own WebTV™.
Forward to what my television experiences have been like since!
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