Ah nostalgia the good old days.
I stumbled upon somnet in 1998 as well, lurked a little never posted and got bored after a couple of days, But then i was in University, so much to do and so little time,
I joined up in 2004 by then i had a job that gave me allot of free time, and i found myself on somnet practically all the time.
I was never around many somalis so i was looking for my peeps, and what a wonderfully crazy bunch of people did we have back then.
somnet was new and wierdly wonderful , i was a gamer back then and one hell of a geek. I even used to write fanfiction lol..
but i found myself wasting it on somnet.
Met a few chicks as well, surprisingly even a few dates.
I have never dated somali women back then and was isolated from the community.
I am still in touch with mad mac on facebook, and was close with Kamal35 do you remember him, spanish dude. I met him in Grenada , hell of a guy journalist and punk rocker. Sadly he passed away 3 years ago..
and Basra calooley, i always wondered why they called her baruuro and calooley
who knows she may even be skinny..
There was a time i wondered if she was really an AI or bot that came into sentience chose a somali indentity and lived on somnet.