And still falling for the bait
I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.
Submitted 2 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jeffep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Single colour monitors, kids! Single colour monitors!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Team orange or team green?
monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Oh man, I had to use the orange ones sometimes at my first programming job. They were VAX/VMS dumb terminals. It sucked getting stuck with one of those, because the job was making a visualization GUI for some data, and these ones literally couldn’t run the GUI; they were text-only. Eventually they started reserving one of the GUI-capable machines for me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Green al the way
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Orange at school, green at home.
golgaloth@writing.exchange 2 months ago
InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Dont be rude to your mama - laugh at the memes she shares.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You feel me.
turnipjs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
also they were like 20something when myspace started anyway
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB if RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fuck. i can’t remember my icq # anymore. it was 6 digits and started with an 8.
nathanjent@programming.dev 2 months ago
867530
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nein!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Angel is a centerfold!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That I le remember
ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 months ago
Mine was somewhere in the 2 millions. I probably still have it saved somewhere.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I vaguely remember somebody sending me a bitcoin many many years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We built this city…!
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s nothing. I was on ebaumsworld
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used telnet talkers! No web browsers existed.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Badger Badger Badger Badger
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 months ago
The dude who answers, reminds me of my dad.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
may_be@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
SpaceHey may not be the same, but it’s what my girlfriend uses!!
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I looked that up, looks interesting. Apparently it’s not available for us in the UK though because they say they don’t have the resources to comply with age verification, which is now a legal requirement for social media in the UK
rozodru@piefed.world 2 months ago
18982172 here.
Fun fact. ICQ was the the go to messaging platform for the porn industry and was actively being used in the industry right up to the point it was bought by a russian company.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tom and I go way back. He’s never given you a thumbs up.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Now get off my lawn
gergolippai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
icq 29533018 hit me up, but of course that was already an additional fancy layer on top of text only chat. I had it bridged in my bitlbee setup via libpidgin together with my gtalk and irc and other xmpp stuff, and had it run in irssi in a screen on my server (next to the other screen that ran mutt for my email).
and check this: to this day I consider it the best chat setup I’ve ever had.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
66618055 I kept putting off getting on. I was online on the CompuServe days before Prodigy or AOL. I had three different places to access the internet back in 1992. My catchphrase is “I am from the internet. I’m here to help.” I deeply miss Usenet.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stop…PLEASE!!! …i can only get SO erect!
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
KillGorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
16577270 was mine not even close to op number.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Anyone who tries to cut anyone else out of the herd is a dick, nothing more.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Army Navy Air Force baby.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Up here in Canada we have “Legion” clubs where veterans go to socialize (drink) and we also have “The Army and Navy” clubs where veterans go to socialize (drink). It may be the same down south but am unsure. I would never exclude the air force by design. 😊
TTimo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
9337000 checking in
TTimo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
968015 was my boss
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
1576488 checking in
limelight79@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a crappy phone line back then, so I needed those sounds to diagnose connection issues.
ronalicious@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anybody here remember Plastic, circa 2000? It was a forum kind of like Reddit, although I don’t remember if it had upvotes or not.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
upvotes and gamification of human interaction ruined the internet and are directly responsible for the extremity of discourse today.
The internet was so much better before that shit.
Which is also the era before social media, because as far as I’m aware, social media introduced those addiction driven gamification mechanism for what should be, by now, clearly obvious reasons to even the most thick skulled individuals.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The internet was so much better before that shit.
No, you’re looking at it through rose colored glasses. Pure chronological sorting purely awarded the most active commenters regardless of quality, and led people to submit lots of low quality comments. Plus there was the “bump” phenomenon where a useless comment was made simply to manipulate the sorting.
Forums before slashdot just weren’t that great without heavy moderation. By outsourcing some portion of moderation to the users, it made for higher quality discussion in the forums that allowed threading and voting.
Wondahbread@piefed.social 2 months ago
2251298
I am elite. Give me warez doodz!
Iunnrais@piefed.social 2 months 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?
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
ICQ 514984 checking in.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
conversations? on geocities? telnet on geocities? wtf is this?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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.)
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BBS was the shiz in the olden days
PodPerson@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
When the internet was fun
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
–When-- Before the internet was fun
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MO7fkZc5o&pp=0gcJCY4Bo7Vq…