I Want To Meet Ladies Who Want To Have Their Hair Cut
I was really excited 22 years ago when the UPS guy came to my door with the cow print cardboard boxes. Ahh, my first Gateway computer has arrived! A friend was on the World Wide Web and I marveled over the amazing technology that, little did we know at the time, would make the planet a lot smaller someday. I had to have it!
I opened the boxes and set up the tower, bulky monitor, keyboard and mouse on the old wooden teacher's desk that I bought at a yard sale specifically for my new computer. I already had a second phone line installed in anticipation and was ready to subscribe to America On Line, one of two or three service providers at the time.
I can't remember if it was minutes, hours or days before AOL was available to me after I ordered it. But I do remember my first log in and how amazing it was to see the monitor jump to life. For those who were born after this experience took place or wasn't on line in the '90s, I probably should explain what I remember from the early days of the World Wide Web. To be honest, I don't even know for sure when we stopped calling it that and started using “internet”.
I listed everything above that came from Gateway...that was it. There were no speakers because there was no sound. There was a tiny little speaker in the monitor for dings, etc., but this was long before we could listen to music on line. Videos? Hahahahahahahaha! If you clicked on a picture on one of the few websites available, you could go make a sandwich, use the restroom, wash your car or whatever, then come back and the picture may be loaded by that time. One line at a time, top to bottom. Talk about anticipation!
Being a hair aficionado, the first thing I seeked out was any information on hair cutting, hairstyles...anything hair-related that I could lay my eyes on. Up until that time we had to rely on mostly magazines to see hair pictures. Hairstyle periodicals, Cosmo, Redbook, anywhere we could sneak a peek at a sweet haircut and, if we were lucky, a featured makeover. Unfortunately, early on, the WWW didn't offer much for hair junkies to get their fixes on.
But, almost right away I found a group of people from all corners of the planet that were into hair as much as I was and, thus, the hair community was formed. We traded scanned pictures, swapped stories and became as close of friends as anyone that would rarely meet in person could. I met a woman named Joyce in our email exchanges (no instant messaging yet) who lived within an hour from me and, after talking for several weeks at a message delivery pace slightly quicker than snail mail, we met up and I fulfilled her wish of having her waist length hair cut to a really short pixie in an intimate setting. My first of hundreds of on line induced haircuts! Thank you, Joyce, where ever you are, for popping my internet hair chopping cherry!
Around the mid '90s I switched my mail to a new start up company called Yahoo!, which was an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. By this time, also, some local servers started showing up on the scene and I dumped AOL for another dial-up company. Yahoo was a godsend for the fledgling on line hair community. They added instant messaging, like AOL and a few others did, and started Yahoo Groups which almost immediately became inundated with hair lovers posting thousands of pictures.
The hair community was hitting full stride and great friendships were forming daily. More websites were being added by hair folks around the globe. Captain Stanley was one of the pioneers and scanned a lot of his photos from the '80s of women having their heads shaved. Websites like Red Lite Fetish Hair Site, Buddy's Hair Site and the Bob Haircut Worship Site kept folks like me busy for hours staring at all the new found material that would satisfy our cravings.
Around the turn of the century, along came Let's Talk About Hair, a forum based website that bonded the community in a way that no site had before it. We could chat, share stories, pictures and videos and even, perhaps, meet the person of our dreams. I know of at least three couples that met on LTAH and, to this day, are happily sharing their love of hair and each other. More websites and sources came and went but the hair community stayed strong in friendship and common interest.
In the last several years it seems the interest in the hair community has been waning. Many of the original members have disappeared for various reasons, as have many of the sites that paved the way. Yes, a lot of new people have come along but the atmosphere has noticeably changed. We were a tight-knit group that understood each others' fascination with hair cutting and hairstyles. We were everyday people that had, perhaps, a hidden fetish or an outright love for all things hair. When a member fell ill or passed away, word spread quickly through the community and there was a genuine sorrow...we really knew and cared for each other.
LTAH and a few sites are still around for us that embrace the hair lifestyle but the community feeling is barely alive. Sites like Experience Project opened the door for pretenders and wannabes, guys who fantasize about chopping off girls' hair and an equal number of gals with no intention of cutting their hair but have fun leading on the poor saps that are gullible enough to believe them.
Role playing? Save that for those that have never experienced the exhilaration of hair cutting, both giving and receiving. Our hair community was made up of real people with real life experiences and a genuine love for the art of hair and the beauty of the women that wore their hair short. If it's time to pass the torch on to the next generation, someone else will have to do it because I would never replace the legacy and genuine friendships of my fellow veteran hair folks with the phonies and liars that prevail on the internet today. Borrowing from the title of one of the first hair sites on line...Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.
I opened the boxes and set up the tower, bulky monitor, keyboard and mouse on the old wooden teacher's desk that I bought at a yard sale specifically for my new computer. I already had a second phone line installed in anticipation and was ready to subscribe to America On Line, one of two or three service providers at the time.
I can't remember if it was minutes, hours or days before AOL was available to me after I ordered it. But I do remember my first log in and how amazing it was to see the monitor jump to life. For those who were born after this experience took place or wasn't on line in the '90s, I probably should explain what I remember from the early days of the World Wide Web. To be honest, I don't even know for sure when we stopped calling it that and started using “internet”.
I listed everything above that came from Gateway...that was it. There were no speakers because there was no sound. There was a tiny little speaker in the monitor for dings, etc., but this was long before we could listen to music on line. Videos? Hahahahahahahaha! If you clicked on a picture on one of the few websites available, you could go make a sandwich, use the restroom, wash your car or whatever, then come back and the picture may be loaded by that time. One line at a time, top to bottom. Talk about anticipation!
Being a hair aficionado, the first thing I seeked out was any information on hair cutting, hairstyles...anything hair-related that I could lay my eyes on. Up until that time we had to rely on mostly magazines to see hair pictures. Hairstyle periodicals, Cosmo, Redbook, anywhere we could sneak a peek at a sweet haircut and, if we were lucky, a featured makeover. Unfortunately, early on, the WWW didn't offer much for hair junkies to get their fixes on.
But, almost right away I found a group of people from all corners of the planet that were into hair as much as I was and, thus, the hair community was formed. We traded scanned pictures, swapped stories and became as close of friends as anyone that would rarely meet in person could. I met a woman named Joyce in our email exchanges (no instant messaging yet) who lived within an hour from me and, after talking for several weeks at a message delivery pace slightly quicker than snail mail, we met up and I fulfilled her wish of having her waist length hair cut to a really short pixie in an intimate setting. My first of hundreds of on line induced haircuts! Thank you, Joyce, where ever you are, for popping my internet hair chopping cherry!
Around the mid '90s I switched my mail to a new start up company called Yahoo!, which was an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. By this time, also, some local servers started showing up on the scene and I dumped AOL for another dial-up company. Yahoo was a godsend for the fledgling on line hair community. They added instant messaging, like AOL and a few others did, and started Yahoo Groups which almost immediately became inundated with hair lovers posting thousands of pictures.
The hair community was hitting full stride and great friendships were forming daily. More websites were being added by hair folks around the globe. Captain Stanley was one of the pioneers and scanned a lot of his photos from the '80s of women having their heads shaved. Websites like Red Lite Fetish Hair Site, Buddy's Hair Site and the Bob Haircut Worship Site kept folks like me busy for hours staring at all the new found material that would satisfy our cravings.
Around the turn of the century, along came Let's Talk About Hair, a forum ba
In the last several years it seems the interest in the hair community has been waning. Many of the original members have disappeared for various reasons, as have many of the sites that paved the way. Yes, a lot of new people have come along but the atmosphere has noticeably changed. We were a tight-knit group that understood each others' fascination with hair cutting and hairstyles. We were everyday people that had, perhaps, a hidden fetish or an outright love for all things hair. When a member fell ill or passed away, word spread quickly through the community and there was a genuine sorrow...we really knew and cared for each other.
LTAH and a few sites are still around for us that embrace the hair lifestyle but the community feeling is barely alive. Sites like Experience Project opened the door for pretenders and wannabes, guys who fantasize about chopping off girls' hair and an equal number of gals with no intention of cutting their hair but have fun leading on the poor saps that are gullible enough to believe them.
Role playing? Save that for those that have never experienced the exhilaration of hair cutting, both giving and receiving. Our hair community was made up of real people with real life experiences and a genuine love for the art of hair and the beauty of the women that wore their hair short. If it's time to pass the torch on to the next generation, someone else will have to do it because I would never replace the legacy and genuine friendships of my fellow veteran hair folks with the phonies and liars that prevail on the internet today. Borrowing from the title of one of the first hair sites on line...Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.
By:
hairitgoes
Age:
51-55
,
Male
