Messaging

I've had a computer for over 15 years. My first one cost almost $4000 and ran Windows 3.1. It had File Manager, the father of windows Explorer. I had the first copy of AOL, and believe me it was slowwww. But it's where I met my first person on a messenger. And I've met MANY since then. I had one send me all of her grandmother's prized pocessions, along with three pairs of panties. That was in the early days. I couldn't get one now to send me a recipe for toast. Such is growing old.

My favorite was PalTalk. I discovered it in its infancy on a Thanksgiving morning when it first came out. That shit was fun. Old Bear and I had a room where we had women eating out of our hands. We both had voices that sounded great over a microphone, and they ate it up. Plus, we were funny and gregarious. Pictures flowed, sultry innuendos, cybersex every weekend. It was great. I met one woman from Canada that I just fell head-over-heals for. She was married, but wasn't intimate with her husband, but had one hell of a body. We would spend hours together. I'd even talk to her husband, because I admired his skills as a carpenter. He never knew.

Then PalTalk got going and they started charging, and I got older. And busier. Then Yahoo started gaining momentum, because, of course, it was free. But they didn't have voice, like PalTalk did, so you couldn't discern what a person was really thinking or saying.

Long story short; I've given up on them. In retrospect, I'd rather talk to a PERSON, not a pulse that travels over a phone line. And I want to know that the person I'm talking to is genuine, funny, honest and sincere.

Not directed at anyone, just my experience as a long time user.