Last night over wine and pizza with friends we were reminiscing about the old MSN days and a bizarre level of infamy that I somehow achieved back then.
Example 1. The launch of Windows 95. Venue - some major London venue whose name I forget. Attending - like, everyone. World press, major figures, Bill Gates, me, etc. Bill G does a speech and a demonstration of this 'fabulous' new technology including the ability to add an attachment in email. He double clicks & a 20ft high photo of yours truly suddenly appears on the giant screen behind him.
Example 2. MSN commissioned a graphic design company to create some awesome 3d chat environments. They made a fantastic Wembley Stadium which one could run around wearing a shirt with ones name on while talking to people. The guy in charge was a nice guy that I got chatting with and he created me my very own 'Katie's World' which was a village with a pub, a cricket pitch, a little bridge over water, and a lovely cutsie 3d space. The pub had TV's in the corner which played porn. We never made it public for obvious reasons and actually forgot about it, leaving it sitting in a staging area of MSN for a couple of years. Happening upon it after considerable time had passed I decided to check it out again and downloaded the necessary stuff. In I went, only to find 20 or so people hanging out in there. As I joined I was greeted by lots of 'OMG, are you THE katie????'. Bizarre.
Example 3. New Years Eve, a party hosted by some MSN Support people that for some peculiar reason we ended up attending despite not knowing anyone. Sitting chatting to some, I was asked my name. 'Katie Jones' I replied. 'Katie Jones?? Yeah and I'm Bill Gates' the incredulous dude replied. Apparently my name preceeded me in MSN Support Circles.
Example 4. More related to the whole katie.com saga, but after moving to Canada and being rather despondant about life with no human contact other than G, I decided to dig out the flute again and contacted a band. 'Don't suppose you need any more flute players?'. The reply...."Are you THE Katie Jones?'.
No Autographs.
Posted by katie at December 11, 2004 11:13 AMBut the real question: do any of the chat rooms you're running out of your house have porn on the TVs in the corners of the rooms?
Posted by: Steve at December 11, 2004 08:19 PMI remember that New Years Eve party. We called it "The Land of the Giants" as everyone seemed so tall!!
That was New Years Eve 1995!
Posted by: Neil at December 12, 2004 05:14 PM