America Offline

digresssmlOriginally published January 31, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1211

Assorted thoughts…

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My experience on America Online has been less than sterling thus far.

The first time I tried AOL was several years ago. I came on for a live conference. I was on line for about thirty seconds when I was immediately hailed by someone using a fake name. “Are you Peter David the writer?” he asked (one of the hazards of signing on with my own name rather than a nom-de-byte).

I wrote back, “Yes.”

Which garnered the quick response of, “Your writing suuuuuuuucks.”