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.
I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.
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MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Surp@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Aol mp3 channel 1
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
We built this city…!
TTimo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
9337000 checking in
TTimo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
968015 was my boss
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
1576488 checking in
turnipjs@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
also they were like 20something when myspace started anyway
Zerofactorial@noc.social 5 hours ago
@BonesOfTheMoon I was 76474.3012 on Compuserve
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
That’s nothing. I was on ebaumsworld
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I used telnet talkers! No web browsers existed.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Shit… you’re all pups…
I was on whatever the hell the network was between Stanford and the elementary schools in Palo Alto in the mid 1970’s and cut my online teeth on an IBM Teletype 33!
(Now we’re talking “old school.”)
ceenote@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I looked up “They’re taking the hobbit to isengard” the other day for no particular reason. I felt old when I saw it was 19 years old. Then I remembered it was on ytmnd before that.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Badger Badger Badger Badger
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
limelight79@lemmy.world 8 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.
bss03@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
ICQ 514984 checking in.
yucandu@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
conversations? on geocities? telnet on geocities? wtf is this?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think they’re referring to some early java applet clients that were popular back in the day. he might have telnet’d into the servers that the clients (which were hosted on geocities) would connect to.
only reason why I think that is because I did similar and even found a way to circumvent room bans using telnet 🤣.
In one server variant you could change your name to a mod after they left the room and have admin privileges in that room.
a particularly shitty mod at the time received my ire and I was able to ban them from their own rooms because the software only validated on the clients to not ban yourself 😈
man, I’ve always been an asshole.
bss03@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
I never had a conversation on geocities, but I do remember you could do some SSI stuff, so maybe it was possible. I think lost my last geocities site password and didn’t care to go through the effort of resetting it in '96 or so.
You can telnet into the HTTP port basically everywhere that doesn’t auto-redirect to the HTTPS port (and start/resume a TLS session), and there could be stuff in the HTML source (or headers) that a browser might hide from you, at least by default – but I can’t think of how you would use that in geocities to “see private messages”. (In theory you could manually start/resume a TLS session, but a proper telnet client might break on some of the bytes received, and you’d definitely have to figure out how to send some non-ASCII bytes.)
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Stop…PLEASE!!! …i can only get SO erect!
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 5 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.
mkhopper@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
57598641, checking in.
Also, I just recently found a list online of old-school BBS names and numbers, and that was a fun 15 minutes going, “yup, called that one. and that one. ooh, that was the one with great u/d ratios.”
Ah Telix…Iunnrais@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I have the number “x277853” burned into my memory… but I can’t 100% remember what it was for. I want to say it was my ICQ, but no one else seems to have an x at the beginning of theirs? Where was this x number from?
ronalicious@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I couldn’t join facebook cuz I no longer had my .edu address. also, it was on a vax machine…
but i still remember it.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Behold… a 7th!
flandish@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
mine is 4906xxx. Yep. been a while.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 10 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 9 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 2 hours ago
All depends on what that first digit is.
mosspiglet@discuss.online 9 hours ago
What about my 5 digit Slashdot uid number? Does anyone remember Slashdot?
JaymesRS@piefed.world 9 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 8 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?
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh hey, did you watch “Waiting…” recently, and decided to find your identity thru that piece of cinema?