Has it really been 10 years?! In 1998, I had just quite my masters program in psychology to start a career in HTML programming! Inspired by a really lame Faye Wong fansite on Geocities I made overnight, I made that fateful move to the "Tech" field.
That summer, I had an internship with a bank mostly filing folders, papers, scraps, etc. But it was so fun to be in the corporate world and see a service center of over 800 hundred people operate. That fall, I was moved to the ATM group that also included the Webmaster of the bank site. I was actually editing corporate HTML on a semi regular basis.
Whats all that got to do with Starcraft?! Well, I worked 24-30 hours a week there and barely got any sleep. The reason is that I would play Starcraft from my lame 2400 AOL dial-up connection until 4-5 am in the morning and try to make work at 8am. I'd goto my car at 10 and 3 to take 15 naps and napped the whole lunchtime! Just to do the same again, repeating my cycle. I had classes on Tues/Thurs and can't believe I passed those in hindsight. I was a Starcraft addict and was intent on being on the ladder.
That addiction soon wore off by the fall quarter, as I was only playing Starcraft a few hours a week and had fallen off the ladder. The realities of life could not be ignored any longer.
I remember that summer very fondly, but won't expect the same when Starcraft 2 comes out. That was also the summer I had The Rockafeller Skank on repeat and the numerous mixes I could located in the AOL chat rooms distrubing MP3s via emails. Yes, it was only 10 years ago.
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