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I’ve known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been on university work terminals and back… frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of Usenet bound for Mosaic with sweat in my eyes watching Netscape Navigator fight on the shoulder of the internet… I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding Lynx off of monochrome monitors and seen usegroups burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it, felt it…!

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JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Like ASCII tears in a digital rain

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- slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Time to dial
  
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SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The true measure of your worth: do you prefer amber, green, or true B&W?

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- FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Pretty sure the first C prompt I ever encountered was amber. Will always have a soft spot for it.
  
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  - SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We have a winner!
    
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- JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My terminal used to be set up such that local terminal usage was green & black and remote was amber.
  
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  - SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So, that was a PC, or a color terminal? Either way, you’re probably a young old fart.
    
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    JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was a color terminal starting with my upgrade from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS 10 (and Fedora around the same time).
    
    But I kept it that way because of my history growing up with Apple IIs (and an old interface to airline booking software in the early 2000s as well.
    
    Born in 80.
    
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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When my main (only) programming language was TurboBASIC, I was amber all the way.
  
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DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
bye

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