tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075524748616031851.post2945898384428829024..comments2024-03-21T04:13:56.099-04:00Comments on Aaron's Essays: College Mornings: A Poem or C.P.E.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13589741654455548220noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075524748616031851.post-12852558136330220932009-10-06T23:55:51.755-04:002009-10-06T23:55:51.755-04:00I seem to have miscommunicated. I wrote this poem ...I seem to have miscommunicated. I wrote this poem with the post (on my iPhone, mostly, on the way back from a trip to Harvard Square). It's entirely retrospective, hence the statement, "I found myself reminiscing about it this weekend, and suddenly it seemed to form a poem."<br /><br />Anyway, yes, the .com domain space was pretty sparse compared to today, but there were quite a few by then. Take a look at some of the hosts.txt files that are archived around the Web. SRI.COM, BBN.COM, DEC.COM, Xerox.COM and Unisys.COM were all pretty huge at that time. But yes, I was referring to the events that would affect me and my peers in the mid-to-late 90s and into the early 00s.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334773771068768209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075524748616031851.post-62209351608764835142009-10-05T11:00:50.707-04:002009-10-05T11:00:50.707-04:00dot com intrigue seems to be an anachronism. I wo...dot com intrigue seems to be an anachronism. I would be surprised if the term were that common in the late 80s, as academia is .edu and anything interesting outside of that was likely on a .gov or .mil .com <br /><br />nacense internet also seems retroactive.<br /><br />Come clean. When did you really write this? Have you rewritten it in the interim?admiyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559086516587174707noreply@blogger.com