In December 0f 1993 Harry Marks traveled to San Francisco to join me in one of the first events of Joe's Digital Diner. After a homecooked pasta dinner we moved across to my studio for the evening's presentation. I was performing the current version of Next Exit. Harry was coming out of the artistic closet that night and was going to show some personal Digital Stories and play his Fender guitar along with the accompaniment of a midi-based sideband. We looked at each other before the show started with the somewhat dismal realization that we were the oldest people in the room.

When my daughters Megan and Gillian were growing up in Crested Butte they used to point at the Old Timers and call them "Geezers". I remarked to Harry: "We're the first digital geezers.

He laughed.

On the occasion of the 1st Annual Digital Storytelling Festival in 1995 Harry designed and printed up the first batch of official certificates for the Society of Digital Geezers. I was declared Head Digital Geezer; Harry proclaimed himself Deputy Digital Geezer.

After a dinner with guests from the Festival Harry and I, along with photographer Pedro Meyer, were inducted. Ralph Rogers of Apple Computer was awarded a temporary certificate since, at the age of forty-nine, he still had several months of pre-geezerdom.

The certificates read:

(Your name here) Having miraculously survived the rigors of half a century, is hereby inducted into the Society of Digital Geezers and is forthwith afforded all of the respects and courtesies due him, if any.

Indeed!