That's a "Mac User's Group" meetup. (Very rural place I grew up) it was my best shot at finding anyone else who cared about computers tbh.
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Anyway I ended up going to a few of these and once in a while there was a trivia contest. One of which, I won
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IIRC the question was something like "name all the subtypes of the 802.11 standard" in the super early days of Wi-Fi ("what's Wi-Fi??")
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I won.. a pair of large men's Apple-branded sandals, likely transported to my town by an ex-Apple employee (probably)pic.twitter.com/MbIz4XbUtV
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My mom just mailed them to me because she is "done hanging onto them for me" I totally forgot about these
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They leave Apple-logo relief footprints in the (putative) sandpic.twitter.com/2zMt8tow9J
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I can't believe these still exist. Anyway if anyone is interested in a pair of
new in bag
men's huge vintage Apple sandals, @ me7 replies 0 retweets 16 likes -
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Also if it seems cruel to anyone else to give a 12 year old girl huge men's sandals as a prize.. I was the only girl & only person under ~40
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giant men's swag as prize is huge pet peeve of mine. can't tell you how many mens L startup t-shirts have gone right into the goodwill bin.
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Yeah it was a real "....thaaaaaanks" moment that I didn't really know how to parse at the time, "this was not meant for you" First of many.
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Because as a kid you are accustomed to very generic swag gifts ("a book!" Etc) I was extremely puzzled "why would they choose this?"
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I didn't yet know about
the culture
and pretty much wrote it off - assuming they were scraping and didn't have anything else available0 replies 1 retweet 6 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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