I think we got our first modem sometime back in 1994 or 5, it took up to ten minutes to download our first current affrairs webpage- much quicker to just read a newspaper back then. I seem to recall our ISP was a small outfit called ICONZ or something similar.
When I found myself pregnant in early 1996 I found an online support group/closed members list in the US called 'November Moms' set up for women expecting babies in November 1996:those women and their families became a daily part of my life for almost the next decade. when I couldnt log in for a daily chat at one point due to not having a computer, the US women put together and bought me one -shipped it to NZ in fact!
Ive met some of my closest and dearest friends and lovers on the internet, spent probably far too much of my life online but...
Memorable moments: sitting up the whole of last Christmas night keeping my son company on Skype (his first Christmas in the UK, lonely, cold and without family or friends I couldnt bear to think of him spending Christmas day alone); seeing photos of my cousins and their children posted on Facebook, not seeing them since childhood and being shattered by the ties of blood and family resemblances..the delicious and sometimes surreal conversations with people all over the world you will probably never meet.. MSN in the middle of the night..helping a friend through a crisis..feeling a deep soul bond with someone on the other side of the world...chatting to someone new in Europe and suddenly they have arrived in NZ, are on your doorstep and living in your home..and you know it will be a friendship that may last a lifetime..having scored yourself a fee trip to Europe as they return the favour...I could go on...

yes, I lived through every moment of birthing that album (someone decided that the drums would sound better recorded outside the soundproofing of the studio and beneath my bedroom) glad you enjoyed it ...

yeah - I've often thought about writing a book about those years, so many hilarious stories - would make a great movie too. And its all 100% true - we really did live off those trivia quizzes for months at a time....

ah I have many fond recollections of the years spent living in a dilapidated downwtown warehouse, flying just below the Auckland city council radar in terms of legality, with Big Ross and the remains of the Bird Nest Roys....the best bits of the story undoubtedly include the one about the 0900 Trivia Quiz scam we ran so successfully that Big Ross was able to give up his day job and use the cash to set up Globule Records...kept our recording studio and young family going through many a shaky week too ;-)

Just reading what Creon was saying about the Verlaines brought back a very poignant memory: A very cold August 1992..driving late at night through thick, eery fog into Fitzgeralds Glade just before getting into Rotorua for the 'romantic' weekend that was supposed to be saving a dying and hastily entered marriage.
I knew it was over. He was too thick-skinned to realise. The Verlaines 'Ready to Fly' on the tape deck of the mitzi Sigma (loosely quoted) 'you got love in my heart, I got nothing in mine...and you dont even know why I'm telling you why..I'm ready to Fly..if I gave my soul to you you'd lose it'
followed by throbbing guitar outro.
One of those uncomfortable moments when there really is nothing else to say....