I have lost contact with many people. I recall my first email account was a Hotmail address. I lost the password sometime around the time I went to Job Corps on February 5, 2005.
At the Job Corps Center, I had a Yahoo-hosted email address, and I was later introduced to MySpace. I recall connecting with mostly students at the center and maybe someone from Port Townsend.
Sometime in 2006, the kids around me started talking about moving to Facebook. I remember logging in to MySpace and someone snorting and saying, “You still use that?”
I’ve always been regarded by others as being good with computers, but I’ve never been good at keeping up with trends. I expected Social Media to be a fad that would eventually go away.
Anyways, Facebook was quite effective. I was able to put in my schooling history, and it brought up the profiles of several friends. That was quite impressive compared to MySpace.
I used the Yahoo email until I moved to NC. At some point, the account became inundated with spam, and I made an Outlook account. I initially tried recovering my Hotmail, but I couldn’t quite remember how it was spelled, Aquila13 or something.
I still use the Outlook account these days. I tried getting back into Yahoo, but it’s totally gone. I think Yahoo went away at some point. Been sold off or something. But the email address wasn’t recoverable.
Unfortunately, I was never able to transfer my contact lists between the accounts. Additionally, I had multiple technology scares that led me to purge my social media accounts time and again over the years. Now I don’t use it at all.
Now with all the AI stuff going around, I just don’t feel like I understand computers anymore. The last technology hurdle I successfully passed was Bitcoin. I chased the mining game from 2013 to 2020.
I should have just held with the HODL crowd. If you count all the Bitcoin and Litecoin I ever bought, I would be a multimillionaire by now. Thousands of coins to pay for GPUs and then ASIC mining rigs that were soon obsolete.
My last mistake was liquidating my last coins to cover the EIDL loans and other bills. I did it two months before Bitcoin hit $10k. I could have paid my debts and had plenty of cash left over.
