How I Became billspaced.

You're probably wondering how or why my online presence is (mostly) under the pseudonym of “billspaced.”

If you aren't wondering, kindly move along. Nothin' to see here.

It's really a simple, short story. It all began in 1995.

My roommate really really wanted to get this thing called “AOL.” I had no clue what that was. I was working a really difficult retail job (yes, they exist), where I got up every day, went to work at variable retail hours, had a 30 minute lunch, went back to work, and then came home and pretty much went to sleep.

That was my day.

Anyhoo…getting back to this story I said was short…Ron wanted to get America Online.

Two problems:

I didn't know what it was.

We didn't have a computer.

Further, we'd have to get a “modem.” (Listen to this shit!)

Not having $2,000, I did the typically American thing and bought a top-of-the-line brand-new PC on credit. It came with a modem. I think it may have been a Pentium running at about 16Mhz with maybe 16Mb of RAM and a whopping 850Mb hard drive.

Classy.

We opened the CD-ROM drive, inserted the AOL “coaster,” and let ‘r rip!

Hell, tbh, it may have been one of these:

In no time (20 minutes) we had AOL rip roarin'. Then it came. The program asked me to create a username.

Bill Davis didn't work. Bill D didn't work. Apparently, all variations of “Bill Dxxx” were taken.

Fuck me!

My roommate suggested “Bill [space] D” but the mofo AOL didn't like spaces, either. So I typed in, bill space d (without the spaces).

Thus, “billspaced” was born.

Now you can find me nearly everywhere as billspaced.

Well, except for on twitter because those miscreants permabanned me when I called somebody a cunt.

I may share that story at some point down the road.

Until then, make is a great day!

With love,

Bill aka billspaced