Noleli’s avatarNoleli’s Twitter Archive—№ 24,439

      1. AIM was hugely important to my college social life. Away messages were how we coordinated. Adium was my first foray into open source.
    1. …in reply to @Noleli
      I had friends submit last lines to silly limericks. I wrote scripts to do polls, show news headlines, and graph the weather.
  1. …in reply to @Noleli
    I also “invented Twitter” when I wrote a script to automatically post my away messages to a blog for posterity. noleli.blogspot.com
    1. …in reply to @Noleli
      Sadly, I didn’t do that till the end of 2005. I have chat logs going back to 2003, though. That’s embarrassing.
      1. …in reply to @Noleli
        Away messages were so different, though. They were transient. You could change it without cluttering people’s feeds. twitter.com/Noleli/statuses/5200746860
        1. …in reply to @Noleli
          1. …in reply to @Noleli
            Remember buddyzoo․com? It was my first exposure to visualized social networks. It was so cool to see those connections.
            oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
            1. …in reply to @Noleli
              Away message, 2004-04-30: “thefacebook․com is cool. Do it. Oh yeah, and buddyzoo․com. Social networks are cool.” We were so naïve 😂