(partially from my own records, partially extracted from the Google Groups archives)
I've had E-mail since September 1983, and got on the Internet in early April 1988.
Many of my 1988 postings are not in the Google database. I know I was posting quite a lot in 1988 and 1989, but found only a few postings from those years. In the late '80s and early '90s, I was also very active on GEnie, and, from time to time, somewhat active on AOL.
For many years on USENET newsgroups, it was common practice to have a "sign-off" at the end of your posting, and it was called a signature. This habit was lost in social media where brevity was key. Most of the URLs listed in these signatures have been moved, though a few are defunct; the current locations of many of them are listed at: http://www.dpsinfo.com/coa.html
First E-mail address: September 1983 - mann AT stratus.com
My first work-related E-mail address.
Second E-mail address: April 1988 - lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP
My first personal E-mail address.
Until the late '80s, an E-mail address sometimes included a path from one mail server to another.
June 1988
\* This is the way the future is...
Hacking net address: {harvard,ulowell}!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP
Working net address: harvard!anvil!es!Laurie_Mann (Stratus Computer)
uS(n)ail: Laurie Mann, Stratus, M22PUB, 55 Fairbanks Blvd, Marlboro, MA 01752
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July 1988
\* We could be killed and our bodies devoured! * ** Should we go home? * **
No, this is much more exciting!
Hacking net address: {harvard,ulowell}!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP
Working net address: harvard!anvil!es!Laurie_Mann (Stratus Computer)
uS(n)ail: Laurie Mann, Stratus, M22PUB, 55 Fairbanks Blvd, Marlboro, MA 01752
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June 1989 /*Life is like a roller coaster, but I'm glad to be tall enough to ride*/ Laurie Mann * * harvard!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * encore!cloud9!jjmhome!lmann Work: Stratus Computer I log onto the net from Northboro, MA * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
October 1989 /*The typical American is a married, 32-year-old mother with a career. /*Gee, and I've worked SO hard to be ATYPICAL!!! Laurie Mann * harvard!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * encore!cloud9!jjmhome!lmann Work: Stratus Computer I log onto the net from Northboro, MA * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
November 1989 /*This life is a test. It is only a test. You may get a real one later. Laurie Mann * * harvard!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * lmann%jjmhome AT m2c.m2c.org Work: Stratus Computer * * Home: Northboro, MA * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP */ * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
December 1989 /*I'm a woman by nature, a mother by choice. * * Capitalist for choice! Laurie Mann * * harvard!m2c!jjmhome!lmann * * lmann%jjmhome AT m2c.m2c.org Work: Stratus Computer * * Home: Northboro, MA * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP */ * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
December 1990 * ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP * * lmann AT es.stratus.com * ** * ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * ** * ** Work like hell * ** Tell everyone everything you know * ** * ** Close a deal with a handshake * * Have fun * * Doc Edgerton 1903-1990 * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
February 1991 * ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP * * Laurie_Mann AT m80.stratus.com * ** * ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * ** * ** Terrorists are the ultimate cowards. * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
March 1991 * ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT jjmhome.UUCP * * Laurie_Mann AT m80.sw.stratus.com * ** * ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * ** * ** Saddam's problem is that he's creating his own alternate universe * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
April 1991 * ** Laurie Mann * * lmann%jjmhome AT m2c.m2c.org * * Laurie_Mann AT vos.stratus.com * ** * ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * ** * ** Oh, no, not ANOTHER learning experience... * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
August 1991 [The principle of] legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself...it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. The Subjection of Women (1869), John Stuart Mill NOTE: While m2c is ill, please respond to !uunet!lectroid!jjmhome!lmann * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
September 1991 * ** Keep the lovers in rec.arts.sf-lovers--Vote NO on the rename! * ** * * A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by * * * *little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson* * * ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * ** ** ** Laurie_MannVOS AT vos.stratus.com * lmann AT jjmhome.uucp ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
November 1991 ** ** Laurie_MannVOS AT vos.stratus.com * * lmann AT jjmhome.uucp ** ** ** ** NeXT mail: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * * GEnie: L.MANN4 ** ** * ** A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by * ** * ** little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
December 1991 * ** Laurie Mann lmann AT jjmhome.uucp * ** * ** We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; * ** ** ** ** ** others, by their acts. Harold Nicholson ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
April 1992 * * lmann AT jjmhome.uucp * * Laurie_MannVOS AT vos.stratus.com * * * NeXT: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com GEnie: Laurie.Mann * * ** Use your energy to empower, not your rage to destroy. * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
July 1992 * * lmann AT jjmhome.uucp * * AOL: lauriemann AT aol.com * * * NeXT: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com GEnie: Laurie.Mann * * ** Bush or Perot: Just say NO! * 1992: Vote for change! * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
August 1992 * NeXT: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com GEnie: Laurie.Mann * * ** I guess we all have to fall apart a little, once in * ** * ** a while, in order to rebuild our dreams. Tappan King * * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
November 1992 * NeXT: lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com * GEnie: Laurie.Mann * *Bush, Quayle, Perot---We Said NO! * We Voted for CHANGE in '92!* ** ** * "Hollywood still doesn't get it." Dan Quayle, 9/21/92 ** ** * * "No Dan, YOU still don't get it." American Voters, Fall 1992 * * Gee, do you think he gets it now???? * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
December 1992 * In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak * * because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I * * didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade * * unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... * *Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.* * Rev. Martin Niemoeller [Why to March on Washington in April] * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
March 1993 * * lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Internet) Laurie.Mann (GEnie) * * ** ** * * And now for something completely different... ** ** * * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
May 1993 * * lmann AT vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Internet) Laurie.Mann (GEnie) * * * * Claiming that sex education leads to irresponsible sex is like * * ** ** * claiming that driver education leads to car accidents. ** ** * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
In '93 we moved from Central Massachusetts to Southwestern Pennsylvania. Just after I moved, the deal on our Massachusetts house fell through (the buyers started making weird demands, so we pulled out). So I couldn't look for a really good tech job, I needed any job right away. I went to work for Borders and was responsible for shelving computer books. Found a way to get an E-mail address through a club at Carnegie-Mellon University.
August 1993 * * Laurie Mann * lmann AT drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu * Laurie.Mann (GEnie) * * * * Ignore the irrelevant; it soon falls out of fashion. Robin Morgan * * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
July 1994 * *Laurie D. Mann, Technical Writer, Carnegie Mellon University* * * **lm3k+ AT andrew.cmu.edu ** ** Pithy saying under deconstruction.* ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
When I went to work at CMU, I also started working with the Web. It'd known the Web was out there, but really hadn't had much exposure to it until the fall of 1994.
September 1994 * *Laurie D. Mann, Technical Writer, Carnegie Mellon University* * * **lm3k+ AT andrew.cmu.edu ** ** Pithy saying under deconstruction.* ** * ** Home Page Under Construction at: * ** * *http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu:8001/usr/lm3k/lm3k.html ** ** * Working Home Page: http//ivory.lm.com/~lmann/ ** ** * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
September 1994 -- ** ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * * Laurie.Mann (GEnie) ** ** * **I would like to believe in God, but I just believe in Billy Wilder* ** *Director of Belle Epoque, 1993 Best Foreign-language Film Oscar winner* * Geek: GAT d AT -p+ c++ AT l- u+ e+ m* AT s+/++ n+l-- h- f+ g+ w+ t+ r x+ * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
October 1994 -- ** ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * * Laurie.Mann (GEnie) ** ** * * CMU Home Page http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/lm3k/lm3k.html* * ** ** ** ** Telerama Home Page: http://ivory.lm.com/~lmann/ * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
Various things happened at CMU that fall, including the department I was part of kind of falling apart. At that time, if you said you knew HTML, you could sometimes make up to $30 an hour to code pages, so I decided to give independent contracting a shot.
January 1995 ** ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * * Laurie.Mann (GEnie) ** ** ** ** ** ** * Telerama Home Page: http://www.lm.com/~lmann * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** *How come it's OK for a THIN person to be lazy and eat lots, BUT ** ** * **if a FAT person is lazy and eats lots they have a character defect?* * (later variant:) Laurie Mann*lmann AT telerama.lm.com*http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html * How come it's ADMIRABLE for a THIN person to be lazy and eat lots, BUT * * if a FAT person is ACTIVE and eats lots they have a character defect? * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
January 1995 ** ** Laurie Mann * * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * * Laurie.Mann (GEnie) ** ** ** ** ** ** * Telerama Home Page: http://www.lm.com/~lmann * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** Technical Writer/Internet Consultant/webmaster--E-mail for rates ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
February 1995 * ** Laurie Mann * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * http://www.lm.com/~lmann * ** ** ** World Wide Web Page Authoring/Technical Writing/Color Scanning ** ** Get Online! Box ** ** * Pgh, PA 15228* *Actually, I DO speak for the company * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
May 1995 *The best way I've found to make money fast is to deny it access to food.* * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** *Tom Digby ** ** * * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
June 1995 * *Laurie Mann*lmann AT telerama.lm.com*http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html* * "Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated." George Washington * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
June 1995 * *Laurie Mann*lmann AT telerama.lm.com*http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html* * Beware of people who claim to be "pro life" but show no respect for the living! * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
I turned out I never made much money as an independent contractor so I found a regular job again.
July 1995 Laurie Mann * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html *A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. --Chuckles* * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * *** *ServiceWare Database Wrangler and CyberLibrarian * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
October 1995 * **William Kennedy Smith, Lyle & Eric Menendez and OJ Simpson all prove* ** * *that in America, guilt doesn't matter if your checkbook is big enough!* * Laurie Mann*lmann AT telerama.lm.com*http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html * ** Angry * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/feminist/angryaboutoj.html * ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
January 1996 * ** Last night I attended a "take back the night" protest march here. Year * ** * * after year women organize and march to get back their right to unmolested * * * ** freedom. My question is: when will men organize a "give back the night" * ** * ** protest march?" Walter Bresette (Ojibwe activist) Madison, WI, 1990 * ** ** ** Laurie D. T. Mann * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * http://worcester.lm.com ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
January 1996 Laurie Mann * lmann AT telerama.lm.com * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html A waist is a terrible thing to mind! * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
I lasted about six months at ServiceWare - the commute was a killer and a new person became my direct supervisor whom I didn't really feel comfortable working for. But a job for a misc writer opened up at Lycos in downtown Pittsburgh. I also lasted about six months at Lycos. I wasn't fired, but I was tired of writing customer service letters to annoyed users who didn't understand why sometimes Lycos went months between updated its search databases. A few of us made suggestions for other services Lycos could offer; as we were merely workers, our ideas were ignored. Every idea some of us suggested to Lycos in 1996 later were adopted by Google, which is why Google is the search engine everyone uses and not Lycos.
August 1996 Laurie Mann*lmann AT telerama.lm.com*http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html ** ** Smoking causes over 100,000 spontaneous abortions each year, making ** ** tobacco-promoters like Jesse Helms the biggest abortionists in the country. * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
August 1996 Laurie D. T. Mann * * * SearchHelp: Finding Stuff on the Web lmann AT telerama.lm.com * * * http://searchhelp.com Just in alpha test, so there's no real content yet, but you're welcome to visit and make suggestions. * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
In the spring of 1997, I went to work for ANSYS down in Canonsburg. It was a fascinating tech writing job and I had a wonderful boss.
November 1997
Laurie D. T. Mann * ** lmann AT ISPcity-net.com
(Delete all caps to spam-bust the E-mail address.)
WTAE Radio - Lost Cause for Thoughtful Listeners
http://www.city-net.com/~lmann/wtae
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April 1998 Laurie D. T. Mann http://www.city-net.com/~lmann/dps Hoax virus E-mail is a lot like VD... If you use common sense you won't spread it around. Spam is forwarded to the FTC (uce AT ftc.gov) then trashed. * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
January 2000 Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** Geek Feminist ** ** lmann AT city-net.com Dead People Server * Trivia Maven * http://dpsinfo.com/index.shtml (c) 2000 by Laurie D. T. Mann. Permission to publish it in full and without alteration (Usenet, IMDB, Deja) is granted. Venues that alter the text in any way (ReMarQ) are denied permission to publish. http://www.dpsinfo.com/mannschoice/biases.html * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
mid-2000 Marcy Thompson wrote of Thomas Jefferson: "And, he owned slaves. I have never understood how people can unreservedly admire a man who owned slaves and then vilify him because he had sex with one of these slaves. Which is worse?" * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
April 2000 -- Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** Geek Feminist ** ** lmann AT city-net.com Dead People Server * Trivia Maven * http://dpsinfo.com/index.shtml "If your website looks like a website , it's in trouble. It should look like a content site." Edward R. Tufte * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
During 1999, I completely burned out helping to convert the tagging of a manual set for a new publication system for Y2K (very long story that). I sometimes thought it would be great to do something different for a while, but I wasn't sure what. That spring, Leslie was unhappy in her freshman year of college. We told her she should stay and at least finish the semester. I told Jim I wanted to go back to college in the fall, and I went back to Pitt in August 2000. I almost immediately got apart-time Web job for the Undergraduate Research Program.
October 2000 Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** lauriemann AT dpsinfo.com Dead People Server * ** http://www.dpsinfo.com/index.shtml Before you vote: http://politics.slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp (after the election) Now that it's almost over: http://politics.slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp It ain't over 'til...and I ain't sung yet! (after the Supreme Court spoke) OK, OK, so I sang * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
I graduated from Pitt in April 2001, sill had the part time Web job at Pitt and mostly worked on Program for the Millennium PHilcon. My plan was to look for a full time job starting in September 2001. That should be easy, right?
September 2001 -- Laurie D. T. Mann * * lauriemann AT dpsinfo.com (Adelphia E-mail address for news access only) Make an appointment to give blood NOW! It's the only helpful thing you can do. 9/11/01 (later) Laurie D. T. Mann * * lauriemann AT dpsinfo.com (Adelphia E-mail address for news access only) Donate money for disaster relief: http://store.yahoo.com/firedonations/ http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-wtc/ http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * **
I sent out over 70 resumes that fall. Nothing. Meanwhile, Pitt was planning to fold the Undergraduate Research Program into a new office and they asked me to increase my hours to 20 a week and maintain a new database for the program which was fine. By early 2002, it was a full time job.
December 2001 * * Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** ** * * * * ** ** ** lauriemann AT dpsinfo.com * * * * Mann's Law of Conventions: The odds of a convention requiring * * * * rescue are in direct proportion to the number of purely political * * * * appointees on the convention committee at high levels. * *
February 2003 * * Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** http://www.dpsinfo.com * * I am in favor of any war in which the commander in chief, the vice president, the secretary of defense... will personally lead the troops onto the field of battle with their sons and daughters in the second rank. --Ken Parker
April 2003 * * Laurie D. T. Mann ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** http://www.dpsinfo.com * * And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution -- Senator Rick Santorum, Republican from Pennsylvania
It's kind of ironic I never really updated this page after early 2003. As it turned out, I worked even more erratically after 2002 as I developed severe insomnia that nothing ever improved. So within a few years, I couldn't work full time. We were very lucky that Jim was only laid off for about a day in those years (another long story). Beginning in 2008, I mostly did movie/TV extra work, though spent a lot of 2010 doing Web support for a writer.