War of the Brands...err...companies....err..whatever.
“Reserve urs first...use it later...“ the new mantra when a new service is offered for free...
I got my first email account sometime in 1997. Well....at that time, internet was a luxury....and we simply could not afford browsing...and most of my fellow neighbours being my dad's collegues, things were no different for them either. Just as expected, when I tried to get my name in my email id, it was not available. Saddened, I went for the first suggestion the system gave me...sashi_k33. Now, that was hotmail in 1997. Soon after I got my hotmail id, luckily, things started to get cheaper, and I could afford having an account with my local ISP. Then came the famous yahoo....and same problem. Could not get my name. I then decided to have my yahoo id ....similar to my hotmail id.....and in a way easy to remember. All said and done, I was happily using my 2mb and 4mb with too much to spare (in the good old less-spam-ful days). As time passed, my knowledge started to increase .....and so did my web presence. I then managed to get a few other email accounts with my name....from hotmail and yahoo....( yeah...this time i used my full name...nothing to beat that)...and was glad... next msn started coming out with xxx@msn.com....and I jumped in and got my full name @ msn.com just so that i dont loose that and regret later. Then came gmail...same thing. Just when I thought that my battle with email clients was done.....then came website addresses.....domain names.....same shit...different place. I could not get my name....was not interested...but whatever I thought was cool and wanted it as a domain name...was taken. Well...fine...its taken....is there a web-site with that name....NO....same blank page 3 years back....and the same now.
Well..well..fine....then came blogs...."the latest revolution"......same shit. Off late....I start to hear news that states.... " MSN spaces fills up 1.5 million accounts in less than 1.5 months..."....ya...i was responsible for one of those 1.5 million accounts....i got the one with my name. And yeah..i have a dotnetjunkies acct, 2 blogger accts and now...a msn spaces acct. Wonder how many more are like me.... Alteast I am making an honest attempt to make use of all I have.....different purposes for each blog though....and keep updating them as much as I can....nevermind me...what abt u?