To: brian@arl.wustl.edu X-URL: X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.3 BETA X-Personal_name: Sarang Gupta From: proveit@rt66.com [new email: sarang@sarangworld.com] Subject: Confession! December 15, 1994-- I remember it well. It was a warm day in the city.. Albuquerque, the city... I'd spent most of the afternoon outdoors, engaging in wholesome, healthy activities. But, after the sun set... it does that... set you know, I decided to head for home. Yeah, I could've stayed on the streets... cruisin', maybe grabbin' a burger or two, but nah... I figured I'd chill at home... December 15, 1994, 7:35pm-- After having watched a particularly churlish episode of Growing Pains, I headed for the 'puter. Can't get into trouble there.. not on the 'puter... heh... or so I thought. December 15, 1994, 8:15pm-- Got stuck on Leisure Suit Larry I (VGA version)... could've called for hints, could've called it a night. But I didn't. Instead, called my provider... Internet Service Provider that is... fired up the old web... yeah, the good old web... harmless fun, right.. that's what they all say. December 15, 1994, 8:22pm-- Got tired of pictures of people's dogs and girlfriends... hard to tell 'em apart sometimes... found USELESS WWW PAGES. Heh... finally, someone who admits it. Now, this was back in the old days... back before Paul had them all sanitized into directories and stuff... it all just lay out there like someone's sore thumb. Yeah, I checked it out... lots of cutesy stuff.. what some guy had for lunch... some girl's grades in high school... maybe even sent a couple of email messages to some of 'em... don't remember. December 15, 1994, 8:34pm-- Came upon Brian's phone. Some guy hooked up his phone to a computer... yeah, real boss. This was back when the number was still up on the web... could see it plain as day... kinda like it was callin' to me... but I guess it's like that for everyone... always seems to call to you. Maybe there's one thing that makes me different... I got two lines.. yeah, two phones... sometimes I call the time + temp when I'm netsurfing... sometimes, my folks call in from work... nothing heavy... just that they're bringing someone or somethin' home. December 15, 1994, 8:37pm-- I did it, man. Two phones, and a phone number-- it was worse than 976, worse than the 900 stuff... just a machine with a message.. spilt out my guts... 30 seconds later, it was all over. Couplea weeks later, I see it up there and I think "busted"... but, wait... it says anonymous.... I got away with it... "anonymous message on Dec 15, 1994". So I'm laughing cause they ain't found me. Jan-Mar 1995-- Everyday I'm gettin' up and thinking 'bout how I beat the system... how they probably stopped lookin'. I was free, man, free... but I couldn't tell no one nothin'... couldn't tell 'em I was the FIRST freakin' person to be recorded and put up on Brian's Phone page. I was famous, man, but no one knew it. April 7, 1995, 10:00pm-- The pressure's finally gotten to me. IT WAS ME! I WAS THE ANONYMOUS CALLER ON DEC 15, 1994. ME, SARANG GUPTA OF ALBUQUERQUE, NM!! I DID IT!! I DID IT!!! IF YOU WANT PROOF, I GOT IT.. A PHONE BILL.. I GOT THE STINKIN' PHONE BILL TO PROVE IT!!!! FREE!!! FREE AT LAST!!! Sincerely yours, Sarang Gupta (proveit@rt66.com) [now sarang@sarangworld.com] Sarang's Home Page P.S. I really am the anonymous caller of 12/15/94, but the story above is over 95% fictious :) P.P.S. Feel free to use/edit this in any way you see fit.