None of that is a flex. ICQ is the same shit from the endless September. Personally I used to read Usenet on a mainframe, and thought it was cool we could see weather maps with gopher. I don’t think any of this makes me cool at all. Just that I was nerdy and liked the escape technology used to be when the signal to noise was good.
I was on Usenet before AOL even knew it existed.
UltraGiGaGigantic slaps BonesOfTheMoon around a bit with a large trout
…yeah, come back after you’ve pulse-dialed an acoustic coupler at 300 baud to network your terminal emulator with a shell account, kid…
BBS was the shiz in the olden days
The dude who answers, reminds me of my dad.
Honestly, the people who were around in the early internet days helped build the online world we all use now. A little respect for the veterans of dial-up isn’t a bad thing. 😄
Do not speak to me of the old magic, I was there when it was written.
I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin on a team managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB of RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.
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I remember the rise and fall of icq. I laughed from the real internet as you kids played, knowing it was a fad wouldn’t last, not worth taking seriously.
I played online before the internet, when it was scattered individuals, or when you needed access to separate telenet and arpanet, when you could keep in your head all the accessible nodes, when the building blocks you take for granted were all new and exciting ideas
Now get off my lawn
You wouldn’t be in my Top 8
I chuckled. I miss MySpace. Choosing a song for your profile was great. Facebook should add that feature to their profiles. So should Bluesky and Mastodon.
SpaceHey may not be the same, but it’s what my girlfriend uses!!
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Social media used to be about socializing and communicating. These days its all drivel that has bren productized into a vehicle where streaming addictive brain rot keeps the advertisements flowing and lowers self esteem.
Gen Z may have adopted the internet but it was born of us- AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC servers, news groups… all on a dial-up modem. The good old days where there wasnt enough bandwidth for all the ads of today, and the most intrusive ads were a 468x60 pixel banner at the top or bottom of the netscape page
I feel like those platform ideas came initially from people who wanted to build something cool. Something people would use. The ads were a side effect of being part of the tech company.
Now I feel they are built because it’s a way to show ads or harvest data.
Exactly, the priorities have flipped. It used to be that ads were a necessary evil to fund the development and hosting costs for the service you actually care about and want to provide. Now it seems like the service is the necessary evil that’s only there to provide an excuse for the real goal - selling ad space.
Not even 6 digits. Child.
Okay, I get this may be off-topic, but “It is okay to bully–”, no, it’s not okay to bully anyone. What is passing by these people’s minds?
Is it okay to bully nazis?
Is it still bullying then? Seems less like ‘bullying’ and more like ‘self defense’ and ‘standing up for what’s right’ to me.
That’s not bullying, that’s enforcing social mores.
Haha, I just said something similar before your reply had loaded on my screen. :) Whoops!
Just like what a butthead would say.
Uhh, shut up Beavis.
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