Note: I’m leaving the graphics in, even though they keep screwing up the formatting, because I think a person’s Twitter photo is a big part of their “personalityâ€.
The subject line of Tuesday afternoon’s HARO email was called “10 Years Ago Today”. And while I think Peter was referring to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that enacted digital rights management, it made me think.
On October 28, 1998, I was:
- suffering through junior-year public speaking and Core IV (FDU alums feel my pain)
- balancing full-time school with a part-time PR job at Ortho-McNeil (for an amazing group of people)
- babysitting for the pharmacist I’d worked for as a tech (who’s one of my dearest friends, and whose girls are now in or near college themselves)
- dating a guy who smoked, managed a car wash, and adored Pink Floyd (in fairness, that was a long time ago, and he’s very nice)
Point is, I didn’t really know much about anything. Exactly one year later, I was wandering around Rome. And I don’t know if I know a much more about anything, ten years later, but I’ve sure made sure I’ve seen more.
Now check out what Twitter was doing ten years ago today.
deafmom: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago I was wiping butts, juggling 2 toddlers and a baby & counting the minutes ’til hubby arrived home so I cld escape.
bobf1: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago today…I was wondering if people dressed up for Halloween at my first job out of college.
noahsaidwhat: @sarahmorgan – I had just started a new job and was utterly confused
joshshabtai: @sarahmorgan: putting finishing touches on a ‘road warrior’ halloween costume while trying to get over the dissolution of a relationship.
DJDiG: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago, I was probably listening to Hanson (still a fan).
snyderwriter: @sarahmorgan job hunting if I remember correctly.


sachin_shah: @sarahmorgan @robinferrier “10 years ago” I had just moved to New York from DC, leaving my journalism career for the PR world.
ingarundquist:@sarahmorgan I was a junior at West High School having just moved from Germany to the US and taking drivers ed classes! Yikes
rferrier: @sarahmorgan “10 years ago…” i was working 1st job at literary agency and living at home b/c i didn’t make enough $$ to have my own place
gturpin: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago today… I was also a new father and my wife and I were taking my son to meet his grandparents for the first time.
meganlicursi: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago today I was in class at @AuburnU and working at the Auburn Plainsman
andrew_graham: @sarahmorgan 10 years ago, I was a junior in high school. Take from that what you will.
AnnetteFix: @sarahmorgan I’ll play. 10 years ago today, I was working as a dancer, supporting a deadbeat financial consultant from Smith Barney. Next? 
Here’s where you tell me what you were doing!
Updated: Will wrote a whole post on it too!




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