stark.

Love this project. 

I've seen two doppelgangers of myself in my lifetime. Once at the beach, there was a girl who was a shorter, plumper version of myself, but who shared the same facial features & side profile. 

Another was on an archeology documentary about Atlantis. I took a photo of the screen as I watched and sent it to some friends, who all thought it was me.

i've been online since 1994 in some capacity. 

got my first hotmail account in 1997.

started using icq, forums, and (java, web-based) chat rooms the same year. 

played around with geocities (r.i.p.) in 1997 & 1998, creating personal home pages.

joined livejournal in 1999 and used it until around 2005. started using mirc in 1999 as well.

in 2000, msn messenger all-but replaced icq in my life.

then i started blogging at blogger in 2002. (i had really already been blogging for 3 years at livejournal!)

i uploaded my first photo to flickr on november 30, 2004.

in 2005 i joined the body modification site bmezine's social network, iam. i also signed up to bootsnall - a travel resource and sns - and changed over to gmail.

i briefly had a myspace account in 2006 before deleting it (or never signing in again, i forget which) because i found it too hectic and messy. 

i got facebook in 2007 whilst backpacking in europe as a way to keep in touch with the people i met. i also moved my blog over to wordpress, and got my first iphone, which i promptly "lost" (i.e. left it in the glovebox of my car where it slipped between the pages of my owner's manual, undetected for 9 months.)

in 2008, twitter crept into my life, where it's firmly remained ever since, eventually becoming my platform of choice. i also got a youtube account, which i very rarely use.

in 2010 i got my second iphone.

in 2011 i joined linkedin and academia (the academic social network site).

in 2012 i joined instagram, but it took a while to get going. having already been on flickr for 9 years, i've never really seen the point of uploading photos to multiple platforms - although now i do quite like instagram and use it daily. i switched to android at the end of the year and won't be going back to iphone.

along the way, there have been other sites to which i have been committed on a variety of levels: goodreads, delicious, last.fm, spotify, posterous (r.i.p.), google+, youtube, pinterest, and now tumblr - although i must admit that i set up this account many years ago and never used it. 

(and also the accounts i've joined just for research or to see what they're like: the new myspace is a good example. logged in once, don't see how it could possibly have a use in my life.)