SmokestackJones
08-14-2007, 11:17 AM
Okay, this isn't much, but if you want to respond, feel free. I just wanted to put this here as I wrote it for NTL's closing and I didn't want it to vanish with that board's closing (at least not right away, anyway).
When I started out on the internet, I took Gore's idea of the "information superhighway" seriously enough to imagine an actual highway in the ether, with streams of glowing roads heading everywhere with stops along the way and users "driving" down those roads in vehicles that looked kinda like modems, kinda like classic cars. One of them vehicles (looking more like a '57 Chevy ragtop than a modem) was piloted by the coolest of the cool on the WWW, Smokestack Jones. With his black DA and shirt to his tight jeans, Smokestack was ready for anything, be it a virus he put down with his .44 FlashGun to a cyber-babe-in-distress along the side of the road.
Now you know the origin of my virtual self. Along with that, I was going to make my first-ever website. I dubbed this net highway Virtual 66 and was gonna open Smokestack's Virtual 66 Roadhouse, a place to hang out, read some stuff and have a good time - but it was not to be. Maybe some day...
-SJ
When I started out on the internet, I took Gore's idea of the "information superhighway" seriously enough to imagine an actual highway in the ether, with streams of glowing roads heading everywhere with stops along the way and users "driving" down those roads in vehicles that looked kinda like modems, kinda like classic cars. One of them vehicles (looking more like a '57 Chevy ragtop than a modem) was piloted by the coolest of the cool on the WWW, Smokestack Jones. With his black DA and shirt to his tight jeans, Smokestack was ready for anything, be it a virus he put down with his .44 FlashGun to a cyber-babe-in-distress along the side of the road.
Now you know the origin of my virtual self. Along with that, I was going to make my first-ever website. I dubbed this net highway Virtual 66 and was gonna open Smokestack's Virtual 66 Roadhouse, a place to hang out, read some stuff and have a good time - but it was not to be. Maybe some day...
-SJ