Yr Not Punk And I'm Telling Everyone

Remember when the internet was new? We do. If we wanted to get on the “world wide web” we had to wait 10 minutes for our phones to make that weird noise and connect to AOL. AOL was the Google of the 90s as I’m sure you know by now because if you’re reading this, you’re probably younger than me and therefore more well versed with the history of the Internet. Also, I don’t know photoshop.

The only reason the Internet intrigued us back then is because we got to talk to strangers in chat rooms. Are there even chat rooms anymore? I guess I can find out right now in about 5 seconds but I prefer to write this and have the question remain unanswered.

There were sex chat rooms obviously, but more importantly there were chat rooms like “FoR nOfx FaNs OnLy!” I was really excited when one of those popped up, even if there were only 3 people inside (one person would drop out if they weren’t getting enough attention).

Once I met a guy in one of those punk chat rooms. The weird thing was, I didn’t have Internet, only my neighbor did, so I went to their house like every night for a week to get in the chat room and talk to my AOL boyfriend.

I thought he sounded sooooo hot. We had plans to meet up at the Warped Tour. He was coming from Pittsburgh I think, and maybe even had intentions to stay with me? I didn’t know where “Pittsburgh” was and didn’t care, I just wanted to see what this guy looked like and if he was my soul mate. In that order.

Turns out, he was not my soul mate.

xox Lez