internet denizenery
When I was 10 or so my parents bought one of these bad bois. I had no chance.
By around 11-12 I was already on AIM, messaging my friends and leaving stupid away messages
"XxXxGolfxXxX isn't here right now, leave a message or whatever, I could care less. Sign my LiveJournal"
The thing with AIM at this time is that you were marked offline if your internet connection would drop. We had dialup, so that was near always. Phone call? Connection drop. Mom had to call someone? Connection drop. Gotta leave for the night? Connection drop. More often than not, my edgy away messages would go unseen because I would have to physically disconnect my pc :'(.
At the time I imagined a world where I could always have a message list open and where I could message whomever I wanted whenever. I wanted availability to reach people. I didn't want the confines of being able to talk to my friends after they were done with homework AND when their parents didn't need their landline.
Little did I know, that dream would come true. . .in the form of Slack