Women’s Internet History Project launched its first event on August 12, 2010. The conference room was packed with women from all aspects of involvement with providing a purpose and usage of the internet and digital. The support from the attendees was overwhelming. Advisory board members Gloria Feldt and Mary Boone provided sound advice on the organization. Several luminaries came to …
Lori Schwab
Why did you first get online? The why is the same as the when. For a job I had at the time, we needed to be inline or ahead of the communications curve, which is why and when I got my first external Hayes modem — remember those? This was followed with my first email account with CompUServe. It was …
Aliza Sherman
Why did you first get online? I first used an external modem to connect with a BBS in 1987 on my Amstrad 1640 desktop computer. I had purchased the computer and a dot matrix printer to type out my many stories that I had hand written into spiral notebooks since I was in grade school. I had dreams of publishing …
Brenda Scott
Why did you first get online? In 1982, I was in the Navy and stationed in London England right out of a 3 week computer school. It was there, that I found that we could actually type back and forth to Pensicola, FL to get our advancement test scores before anywhere else in the fleet. We would be the ones …
Danielle Cyr
Why did you first get online? I had moved to LA and my sister told me about an LA BBS. I thought it would be a good way to meet people in my new city. For the most part, though, it was just creepy guys trying to pick up girls. 😉 It was a “prehistoric” Facebook. When did you first …
Lydia Kidwell Sugarman
Why did you first get online? Mine wasn’t the earliest experience. I saw and sent my first emails in 1992 w/o really understanding how it worked. But, I was so intrigued, blown away really by this new disruptive technology. At the time, I was selling syndicated television programming for a new company called Summit Media that has gone on to …
Cecilia Pagkalinawan
Why did you first get online? In 1993 bought a Mac PowerBook and it came with a “fax modem” and an AOL start-up disk. That was when I first went on the internet and got an e-mail account. When did you first get involved with digital and why? I was working as a media specialist at Young & Rubicam. I …
Dara Tyson
Why Did You First Get Online? Coming out of the book publishing/retailing world, I was attuned to what was happening in the industry from the mid 80s because of professional necessity. At home, we had a TRS 80 back in 1987 and graduated to an IBM XT in 1989. This was all pre-Windows and MS-DOS wasn’t intuitive to use nor …
Marina Zurkow
Why did you first get online? In 1992 I bought my first modem and joined echo. It was a social move, a move made out of curiosity and a growing penchant to hide out in the world of text (I never loved the phone and I still prefer email). I was more of a lurker than participant, but I found …
Laura Rich
JWhy did you first get online? Originally? We had an Apple IIe at home in the early 1980s. Otherwise, 1993, AOL and Panix. When did you first get involved with digital and why? I took over a column at Inside Media, where I was a reporter, covering the digital doings of advertisers, from CD-ROMs to the new websites they were …