Alien

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:56:33 -0500

When I was between 10 and 13, my dad started to raplidly collect a series of dead-end telecommunications technologies. That’s not fair, it was only the one IBM beige landline phone with a screen that could tilt to make the basement flourscent lights glare across the cheap plastic a little worse.¹ But the big thing we got was a dial-up internet connection which I fell in love with immediately, particularly the Yahoo Kidz services which lead me to the rest of Yahoo, including the chats. Precious little wizlet I was, I would hang out in the most mature sounding rooms possible, mainly the default “Philosophy” room.

Autism on The Internet's Shittiest Wizard

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