Originally Posted by indyfabz

When I was voluntarily downsized in '99 I lost my only email access, which was through work. I had no idea you could get a free email address through places like Yahoo! and Hotmail. Someone on my cross country tour that summer clued me in. When I got home I went to the public library and created a Yahoo! account. I was such a newb when it came to that type of thing that I simply picked the first letter of my first name underscore my last name. How boring.