Continuing with Q&A - Hermione of Hermione's Heart had a question for me:
what inspired your screen name Morningstar?
That's a bit of a long story Hermione.........
Way back when - before the internet we know today - there were BBS's. I am thinking some of you won't have a clue what a BBS is ....... they predate the internet we know today.... and were a precursor to online chat / online games / online information. If you want to learn more you can click HERE and learn a little bit more.
How did I find these BBS's?? Eldest daughter used to log on to one and being a curious mother - I used to stand behind her and read over her shoulder. I was fascinated, that by typing, she was actually 'talking' to friends from school. I didn't understand it and I think probably drove her crazy with all my questions. Finally she got me to set up an account on the Adult only BBS's ........ and that was when I had to come up with my first nickname.
I spent several days trying to come up with something no one else would have... and one very early morning (the time I most often was on the computer cause no one else was !! cause again in those days if you had one computer in the house you were lucky! ) and I was looking out the window - daydreaming - and there was one sole star in the sky........ and the word 'morningstar' popped into my head. I was like that lone star in the sky - the only one up and about at that hour!!
Honestly it didn't take long for me to be hooked! and Adult BBS's were like the wild west - untamed and wild! That's actually where i first found a hint of a kinky lifestyle. Back in those days I was the only 'morningstar' around (cause when I entered a nickname I never got told to pick another one) ...... Even when the internet did show up 'morningstar' wasn't a nickname that was already taken - soooooooo I have been morningstar for over 30 years!
Thanks for the question Hermione!!
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and that brings me to the end of questions for March....... if you didn't get your question in.. .please feel free to leave it for me in comments and I will answer. Thanks to everyone who played along :) It was fun!
Oh wow, that was lovely. Thank you morningstar.
ReplyDeleteI never went on a BBS but have heard of them. We only had internet a work and I didn't even know where to go.
Hugs,
Hermione
what I remember most about those early days on the computer was having to learn DOS to access the computer... I got quite good at it - so when Windows appeared I actually said 'it will never get off the ground - it's too easy' GAH!! little did I know LOL
DeleteHi Morningstar, interesting reading how you came up with your online name and reading about BBS's. Although old enough lol, I hadn't heard of them. I perhaps had some vague idea of precursors to the internet, but not the detail.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up you were cool if you had a Commodore 64 computer lol. Pac Man and the Atari were also the rage.
Hugs
Roz
If memory serves me - our first computer was the Commodore 64!! LOL long long time ago!!
DeleteI love a good back story. Yours is so much more lovely and elegant than mine. I don't remember what our first computer was but the only game I remember being on it was pong. Damn, I'm old.
ReplyDeleteyou're old??!!! not even close PK - did you have to learn DOS to use your computer to play your game??? OMG - I feel SO old !! Memories will do that to you
DeleteLearning DOS and early CAD systems almost drove me mad. Put me off getting my own computer for over a decade. Lovely story about your screen name. :)
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I enjoyed DOS - bought a 'Dummies' book - do you know them "Cooking for Dummies" or in this case 'Dos for Dummies' ..... got pretty good at it...
DeleteDear Morningstar, I always flinch when I read R.I.P Buffalo where I have no permission to go. I loved him, same as you and I'm glad to have copied his posts all along the years: Buffalo Path 2004-2007, Buffalo's Ruminations 2007-2011, Buffalo's Muses 2012. I can't believe it was ten years ago! My question is this, if I may ask: what did he die of?
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Hi Orage :)
DeleteI honestly don't remember what he died of - he had been really sick for awhile - but truthfully I do not remember... He was bigger than life wasn't he??? I miss him too..
Ah, he was a great guy with a wonderful personal style too!
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