I will income the old words
A/S/L
I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.
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CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot slaps CaptPretentious around a bit with a large troutW98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 minutes ago
18/Cali/F
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
These kids have never been slapped around a bit with a large trout and it shows.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 minutes ago
W98BSoD slaps usualsuspect191 around with a large trout
jeffep@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
And still falling for the bait
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
It’s surreal to think about how genuinely good Facebook used to be, before they added the algorithm. It made our social lives better instead of replacing them. You could go on Facebook to peruse events in your area, having an idea of who would be there before you went.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 hours ago
rofl tell me you do not understand how FB got started without telling me…
That shit’s been a privacy nightmare from the beginning.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Back when I was booking shows it was great because you could blast a small event and know it was reaching a lot of people. Bands would share it, every band member would reshare it. But then I noticed the growing discrepancy between the amount of people who claimed they’d attend online and who showed up. Like so much on FB, the illusion of being a part of something became more important than actually being a part of something. But yeah, for a brief moment there was a bit of “social” in social media. Then came the yelling.
NoPanko@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Events was what kept me on the site for far too long after they went bad. Being able to organise events with friends so easily was incredible. I can track the decrease in my social activity along with fb making their system worse and it makes me sad
chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Before Zuck hired Joel Kaplan to specifically cater to right wing interests.
It was kinda nice yeah.
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Assuming y’all aren’t just fucking around, reading the comments here is actually really cool, tangentially interacting with people who have internet stories from well before I was born
I’m just from the dialup era, and I still feel old online a lot of the time, but then someone here is like “yeah, Berners-Lee invented HTTP just to make a website to mock me”
gluestick@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
We are of similar eras. I just missed the days of building phreak boxes and it was always a bit of wonder to me.
While it’s harder these days for a litany of reasons I think it’s still in our collective interest to be bearers of stories, old and new, to the neophytes of the current generation.
I guess what I’m saying is, I am in your camp but to my kid’s generation we are still warlocks
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
So much of the wonder of computers and networks and just… all of it has been abstracted away
So many people just have phones or tablets as the majority of their computer experience
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I was on BBS forums in the '80s.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
wasn’t usenet fun?
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Well not sure about the other poster but the BBSes I used were ones you had to dial into and you were the only one there. Well unless it was a fancy one that had multiple phone lines. I even ran one for a short bit my junior year of high school on my commodore 128 and a 1200 baud modem. Good times. Then I got to college and learned about usenet and IRC. This was like ‘89.
Hackworth@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark.
hOrni@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I came here to make this exact quote. Good job bro!
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I’m so sad that I missed out on this era of the internet. I only got online in 2020, just horrible timing. all you older folk were so lucky
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If it makes you feel any better, I’m also so sad that it’s gone and not coming back :(
wraekscadu@vargar.org 41 minutes ago
Why’s that? What part from that era would you like to see again today if you could?
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 34 minutes ago
The modern internet can be more interesting than the old one ever was once you start to explore it, rather than hanging out on like three websites total.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I watched the Adam Friedland interview with Clavicular yesterday, and Gen Z is so fucked. I realize not all of them are like that, but that someone like Clavicular has gained any traction is a sign the youth is not alright.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
The only place I hear anything about that guy is on lefty podcasts and streams, I tend to avoid most social media so I’m not exactly tapped in to that shit but it kind of feels like the reactive coverage is his biggest boost. I tune in to chapo and hasan and friedland and denims and seder and holy shit I’m so sick of hearing about this irrelevant fucked up kid.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
That’s my rotation as well. You are probably right.
What is denims? Everything else I listen to.
gluestick@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I hadn’t heard of this person so I asked my 15 year old son if he knew about him or if his friends were in his orbit.
“He’s a loser. No.”
I appreciate you for giving me this intense moment of connection with my boy
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
Haha. You’ve got a good son.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
As an early GenZ myself, the only consolation I have is that I still had a pretty un-GenZ childhood and the lack of that rot will always give me a competitive advantage.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Adam was bugmaxxing hard in that interview
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Single colour monitors, kids! Single colour monitors!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
Team orange or team green?
YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
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…!
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Like ASCII tears in a digital rain
SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 2 hours ago
The true measure of your worth: do you prefer amber, green, or true B&W?
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
Pretty sure the first C prompt I ever encountered was amber. Will always have a soft spot for it.
JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 hour ago
My terminal used to be set up such that local terminal usage was green & black and remote was amber.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 hours ago
bye
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
fuck. i can’t remember my icq # anymore. it was 6 digits and started with an 8.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 13 minutes ago
Mine was somewhere in the 2 millions. I probably still have it saved somewhere.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Friends, hear my story…
In the days of old, the days where 300 baud modems were bought by us, the Early Adopters, there were meetings in dark places where code was exchanged on cassette, to be loaded from our tape drives, to create a new BBS, and you - yes you, dear reader - could be your very own SysOp. A king! Let them fall before you as you interrupted their email to live chat. Behold a world where encryption dare not tread, and you, My SysOp, could read the thoughts of all your subjects! Enter a universe where mom picking up the phone downstairs, only to be greeted with digital screeching, turned your conversations into garbled, alien characters before your eyes!
This is where it began. This is where I began. And thus shall I endure, today, tomorrow, and all tomorrows. The lore is mine and mine alone to carry.
Post on, dear friends. I did all this for you.
daannii@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I got a Gmail account back when you had to get an invite.
Drops mic
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Moi aussi. My Livejournal user number was 3 digits.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Tom and I go way back. He’s never given you a thumbs up.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I remember my CompuServe id. I remember the sequence to kick the operator off a call and jump into AT&T’s switching network for the free calls. A 300 baud modem was the shit in 85. Most these fetuses have no idea how anything works and what I used to do to get a connection would make their mind explode.
Monstrosity@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Old man yells at the Cloud.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I regret nothing.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Have some damn respect old man helped build cloud while you get excited because your IPad is blue
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
I’ll stop yelling at the cloud when it stops tripling my electric bill!
golgaloth@writing.exchange 3 hours ago
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You feel me.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
My ICQ number was 737916. A hacker stole it 20 years ago because I thought, “why would anyone want this?” and used the password “buddha” for some reason.
I loved that platform. Those were innocent by comparison days.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 minutes ago
1576488 checking in; still burned into my memory from 30ish (fuck) years ago.
limelight79@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I tried to get into it on the relaunched site a few years ago, but it didn’t work. I might have used my university email account as the recovery email, and that account is long gone.
But…why? I doubt anyone else that I know is using it…
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
There’s no reason to use it anymore. I was using the OTR encryption protocol with it, which was the best there was to offer.
That being said, I did say “could have gotten,” not “could have.”
Surp@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Aol mp3 channel 1
TTimo@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
9337000 checking in
TTimo@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
968015 was my boss
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 minutes ago
1576488 checking in
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Bragging about how long you have been on social media is like bragging that you are the coolest kid in a special needs classroom.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
And for people who might be impressed, a 7 digit ICQ number proves they aren’t really old school.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 minutes ago
All depends on what that first digit is.
mosspiglet@discuss.online 7 hours ago
What about my 5 digit Slashdot uid number? Does anyone remember Slashdot?
JaymesRS@piefed.world 7 hours ago
What about my Fark account number being a low 6 digit number (It would have been lower, but I just lurked for a year first).? Or how far I got in various MUDDs on My local BBS. I need someone to recognize my internet clout!!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I’m a bit older, but this reminds me of back when people used to shame people with 8 digit SteamIDs, because they were obviously noobs, compared to 7 digit people, and of course the 6 digit people.
Bwah, my 7 digit one starts with a 0, yours starts with 8, [insert various slurs]!
And now the entire format has been through I think like 3 total revisions or something?
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I have usernames older than you.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
We built this city…!
Zerofactorial@noc.social 3 hours ago
@BonesOfTheMoon I was 76474.3012 on Compuserve
turnipjs@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
also they were like 20something when myspace started anyway
limelight79@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I turned off those modem noises.
I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 with the beautiful aluminum case.
Facebook, Myspace, etc. all came after I finished grad school.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
That’s nothing. I was on ebaumsworld
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Bro got brutally post mogged. Unfortunate for him that he crossed paths with an Elder. He needs to grind 4chan for the next few weeks if he hopes to ever recover. Instagram reels won’t help him out of this one.
Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world 3 minutes ago
this post rules