I had an icq number in the 184000 range. :) Bragging rights!
Every time this topic comes up, I feel very nostalgic. Of course the tech was not as good, but the internet was free of big tech.
I was using netscape as my first web browser.
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ICQ? Listen here, young man.
I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron. We did school over HF radio with School of the Air, had no phone lines, and barely reliable electricity.
Do not speak of the deep magics to me. I was there when they were written.
ICQ number? Newfangled stuff. BITNET TALK rulez. I wonder if anybody here has ever heard of BITNET...
"I have usernames older than you" is actually a pretty sick burn
I remember trying to play online quake in the 90's, I live in new Zealand... We had dial up, my latency was around the 5s mark. I have up pretty quick.
If I wanted to play multiplayer games, it was taking my desktop computer to a friends house, connecting them together with 10Mb BNC networking, and don't forget the 50ohm terminators.
A friend spent a week trying to download the original pirated version on XP, the couple of hundred meg file would get stopped for various reasons.
I have my full name as a gmail account, I got it as soon as it possible. firstname.lastname@gmail.com
I have usernames older than you
Can't wait till I can use that did someday.
My YouTube account is older than Pewdiepie's account... and that's my second YouTube account.
If you bought your dial-up internet from your local newspaper, there’s a pretty good chance I was doing tech support for it.
Thank you for your service :)
I will invoke the old words
A/S/L
head nod
16/F/Cali
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot slaps CaptPretentious around a bit with a large trout
DiscworldMUD?
It's like I'm back on quakenet!
18/F/Cali
Weren’t they all…
We were and still are all f16s
Nyeeeuuuuwwww kkkkkjkk bbrrrrrrrr
55/male/Stalingrad
2251298
I am elite. Give me warez doodz!
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.
My ICQ was 1428816.
And when young people ask me if I ever play multi-player games.. my dude, I played the first one. Midimaze on Atari ST.
Yeah, seems there is a belief that past a certain age, you should have zero fun, be nothing but a wage slave, and die somewhere quietly, where no one will see what fate awaits you.
Well, I happen to think minors especially should not have access to social media, or at least somehow have minor only social media.
Prevents them interacting with predators, getting brainrotted, and most importantly: leaves us with more mature people to interact with.
I initially like the idea of a minor-siloed internet, but damn if the predators aren't going to congregate there too (eg roblox) so I'm not out sure what the answer is
Same here, but I believe that those savvy enough should be getting into the conversation, instead of sneering at the ignorant lawmakers.
It's a tough problem that should be handled by interdisciplinary panels, and then coded into law in a non partisan way, instead of knee jerk legislation with the only intent of getting votes.
What we have right now is "War on drugs" shit.
What we have right now are fascist surveillance states leveraging both outrage against predatory tech companies and the protective instinct we feel for our children to lock down our communications network by pinning all users to a real world identity. Wheeee!
Adobe flash games and adobe flash videos. Beige computers. Monochrome monitors. Trackball mice. DOS. The original Doom. Newgrounds. Joe Cartoon, Killfrog, and Stickdeath. Napster and Limewire. Geocities. Forums for days. Browser games like Utopia.
I think you are referring to ball mice. Trackball are still in use and development, and are the preferred weapon for knowledgeable gurus, like me.
I used to admin a small campus, where we had 3 computer rooms. Kids (college) stole the balls.
I ended up buying a couple hundred of (then) expensive "laser" mice, because it ws cheaper than throwing away half the neutered mice each semester.
Oh shit! I had completely forgotten about Utopia until this post. The hours I wasted. Haha! MUDs before that...
You'd think he would have set up a usenet server running over UUCP. Or perhaps writing sendmail.cf files by hand?
I remember ratio FTP sites
(I also remember how to make them look like you're uploading a lot quickly using a 14.4k modem.....by uploading files full of null bytes and using the compression to your advantage.)
These kids have never been slapped around a bit with a large trout and it shows.
W98BSoD slaps usualsuspect191 around a bit with a large trout
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