"First, alternating caps - thats SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 'computer nerd' dear. now to the matter at hand..."

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so spake fatnick (or if you must: -- Nick Greenfield(clashguy@yahoo.com), May 02, 2001.), about a year ago.

do you have an ilx "persona"? if so, how close is it to reality? did you always have it, or did it develop over time? masking on the internet: classic or dud?

― jess, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

too tired and lazy to think of anything clever...

― jess, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno. I think I am different on here but only due to the limitations an online message board imposes.

― Ronan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find it much easier to be nice on the internet. IRL I find it a lot less easy to be nice. But, apart from that, I'm pretty much the same, I hope, I dilike the idea of creating a whole new persona. Boo to Sherry Turkle, and the whole post-modern multiple-self.

― jel, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I AM WHAT I AM. The motto of both God in burning bush mode and Popeye, so hey.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NED RAGGET ; AMERICAS LITTLE HONEY EXPLOSION

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm afraid I come across as sort of a dry asshole online sometimes, something which I'm pretty sure no one in "real life" would say about me. I haven't figured out how to convey personality very well online yet, I guess--I NEED A GIMMICK GODDAMMIT! ;-)

― Clarke B., Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

geoff is the asshole when you need an explosion of shit.

― geoff, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best compliment I've had in years there, Mike.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sort of a dry asshole

There's a cream you can get for that you know.

Good morning all!

― Sam, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1973 - French fan to booy - 'why did you kill Ziggy ?'

2001 - ILE has enough Flav

2002 BBC news - 'The govt is to give laptops to shitloads ov teachers so they can post bllx threads on ILx during their morning breakz' = Hurrah! real me has a weblog

― , Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I admit whilst retaining a fondness for the odd h4X0R aLtErNaTiNg capitals make me very very very angry indeed. I know someone who keeps using them and against her I AM VERSUS. Grrrr ANGER RAGE. I can let Phay off as he uses them sparingly and consistently whereas SHE oh GRRRRRR ahem tra la la.

I do talk in CAPITALS and exclamation marks wherever possible! However when I got nabbed by the Observer after a Magnetic Fields show to do an exit poll thing (WHEN I WAS STILL SHAKING LIKE THE DORKY FAN-GURL THAT I R) I relied on talking in capitals and p!o!p! but she didn't notice it. I sounded like a twat. I admit I would have sounded like one anyway but there ya go. I still think I was bettah than Neil Hannon.

I think my ILE persona will 'take things on' more than the real me in a pub talk would. At least with people I don't know that well. Also I think I am more AGRESSIVE (grrr) whereas meeting me first time in pub I may come across as more quiet and shy believe it or don't.

― Sarah, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the alternating caps thing sounds to me in my head like squeaky- voiced-teen in the simpsons. "tHaT cOmEs OuT oF mY sAlArY"

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe I'm overspecifying here, but, last time I checked, alternating caps was the hip way to type for young Asian American teens. (wZuP 2 aLl uV dA aZn hUnNeEz oUt dEr--!!)

― Honda, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The alternating caps thing makes you sound like Torgo.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it makes you look kinda silly and it's difficult to read, it's crap.

― chris, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eXCuSe Me, i DoN'T uSe aLTeRNaTiNG CaPiTaLS! i uSe "TRouT SPeaK" ie "CaPiTaLiSe CoNSoNaNTS"

― Norman Phay, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I try to make my online persona more dull and less eloquent than the real me.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AzN PrYdE!!

Computer nerd?! Cool?! Sorry, I have personal issues with America's new breed of Asian. I know it's probably the most irrelevant thing on this board. But check out the alternating-caps-as-hipness factor...

― Honda, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah I knew there was a consistency in there somewhere, but I just hadn't grokked it.

― Sarah, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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