Thanks for letting all these nerds on HN know how important it was to maintain contact with a drug dealer and super hot girls when you were a hip teenager, I mean... i totally get it because I was also a really cool hip teenager. Did we just become best friends?
Think of the gravity that Instagram/Facebook has today, or maybe things are different today, so had for millennials. Try to take away a young adult's phone today, you'll risk being eliminated. We had some neat handhelds with PCMCIA slots that OpenBSD ran on in those days but it was only the kids in "rich" neighborhoods that also had them and I was a year behind in getting those. The critical mass of the network effect at that time was on desktops and iBooks.
> super hot girls
Yeah a San Francisco 7 was like an 8 in Los Angeles and easily a 10 in most towns (in those days).
They were prowling MySpace just as much as anyone else. You know what they're up to.
