Remember when your parents would yell at you every month when the Internet bill came in and AOL would charge your sorry ass dial up service by the motherfckin minute?!?! 

That was the first time I got a taste of ADDICTION. 

I loved hearing the urrrr EEEE urrr NNNGGGG CRRRRcrrrr KEEEEEEE grrr nnnnnng

YOU GOT MAIL.

I was 13 when I first fell in love with the Internet and I became ‘QTQueenD.’

Rarely ever using that screen name or even sighing into my IChat AOL CANCELLED my account. I had to call their outsourced customer service center and Habib’s brother Habib wanted to make sure we got down to the bottom of this together, it was after all his pleasure. He asked me for the name of the account holder, considering I was 13 when i first got this account i figured it had to be one of my parents names…NOPE. The agent asks if maybe it’s the name of a husband or a sibling or maybe someone else like another household member.. I let him know that this was an account i have had since i was 13 and the only people that i answered to at 13 were my parents. Nothing. After having ben on hold for 20 min then being on the line with Habib for another 20 i felt like driving my car off a cliff only I cant because im in Florida.  

For the 15th time Habib asked if there was another name the account was associated with. After i confirmed that neither Mickey Mouse, nor Donald Duck, or even Edward Scissorhands were account holders I gave up. I think my favorite part was spelling QTQUEEND and Mr. Scissorhands. 

Goodbye Internet Beginnings……