Post 9xFdGmiJFYMSldN24e by claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #9xFUY7MepCRy9MQuwa by InvaderXan@sunbeam.city
2020-07-19T15:54:47Z
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• remember Netscape Navigator• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster• used the web before Google existed• ever used a dialup BBS site• remember Gopher• ever downloaded music as .mod files• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites• know IRC commands• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one
(DIR) Post #9xFUhUqWtCZ5aFsTfU by Meeper@blob.cat
2020-07-19T16:11:07.834966Z
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@InvaderXan seo ruined the world
(DIR) Post #9xFUuE16lupx9XtZCK by vandys@mst.vsta.org
2020-07-19T16:13:26Z
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@InvaderXan This is the graphic they left on Napster when it was taken down.
(DIR) Post #9xFVF1XyKW1gYkBVse by lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com
2020-07-19T16:17:11.761775Z
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@InvaderXan @feld * Forwarded a chain e-mail so that Bill Gates would send you money.
(DIR) Post #9xFVWemzgIU3BqcRXc by InvaderXan@sunbeam.city
2020-07-19T16:20:18Z
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@vandys This is so sad...
(DIR) Post #9xFVaRTz63uX4wX52O by InvaderXan@sunbeam.city
2020-07-19T16:03:06Z
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Google was founded in 1998. By the internet calendar, this is the year 0.Years prior to this are known as BG, or Before Google. Years afterwards are known as AV, or Anno Vendi (which probably means something like Year of Advertising in Latin).Humans went to the moon in the year 29 BG.The code for Mastodon was first released in the year 18 AV.
(DIR) Post #9xFXRUyQwnZTCydcJ6 by spacewizard@mas.to
2020-07-19T16:41:48Z
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@InvaderXan @gcupc yet another "everything but livejournal early adopter" here, though I barely ever used IRC.
(DIR) Post #9xFYfb4bANr68Lo9wG by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2020-07-19T16:55:32Z
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@InvaderXan tfw. not 1970 as year zero.
(DIR) Post #9xFdGkJQB7GTJri80G by claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-07-19T16:02:15Z
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@InvaderXan Yes to all. 👴
(DIR) Post #9xFdGlD4qBmg6TkZkm by InvaderXan@sunbeam.city
2020-07-19T16:07:22Z
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@claudiom Impressive!
(DIR) Post #9xFdGmiJFYMSldN24e by claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-07-19T16:09:09Z
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@InvaderXan Some, like IRC, I learned much later since I didn't have any reason to connect to IRC, though I knew of it in the 90s. I did access Gopher through SEFLIN Freenet back in the early 90s. And I think I downloaded a few .mod files but that was rare for me. Did that last one out of curiosity.
(DIR) Post #9xFdGnfrg803kLEau0 by claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-07-19T16:13:24Z
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@InvaderXan My bad, it's actually all but one. I never had a LiveJournal account. Missed that one in the list. 😊
(DIR) Post #9xFdGpKfVuEWtBKh8q by rafial@hackers.town
2020-07-19T16:55:19Z
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@claudiom @InvaderXan Same for me, all but Live Journal. I was skeptical of the early days of blogging. I thought if you had something you wanted to say, why not just put up a web page?My earliest internet memories are pre-HTTP, digging around public FTP sites just to see what was there. The most precious thing to find was a new list of hosts that had sites on it that you had never seen before.
(DIR) Post #9xFdGqylOJtpzp6EHA by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2020-07-19T17:47:03Z
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@rafial remember archie and veronica? there were many kids' sites to be found there. never joined livejournal. i joined dmoz.org @claudiom @InvaderXan
(DIR) Post #9xFgEzdwVU1i9QAJOq by gcupc@glitch.social
2020-07-19T16:45:20Z
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@spacewizard @InvaderXan Same. I used IRC once in 1990 and then basically forgot about it for years.
(DIR) Post #9xFgF0WXEVhAsjhuUa by spacewizard@mas.to
2020-07-19T18:20:19Z
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@gcupc @InvaderXan I was too busy on the ISCA telnet bbs :D
(DIR) Post #9xFljDcBcmJ7wRZlFA by supernova@social.privacytools.io
2020-07-19T19:21:50Z
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@InvaderXan Great list, yes to many of those. I remember Mosiac, gopher, Usenet, having to download a video before playing it (no streaming), ripping mp3 in realtime as the CD is playing, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Yahoo, walkthroughs of DOOM, AOL as your news source and those trial disks everywhere (save them and reuse them)! ICQ, animated gifs, 256 color images, being the first freshman class the get Ethernet in our dorms.
(DIR) Post #9xFmMffzE8iYGYAKky by supernova@social.privacytools.io
2020-07-19T19:28:59Z
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@InvaderXan Oh how could I have forgotten as well the MOD, midi, s3m and other audio files?? On a Sound Blaster card! My roommate had a fancy Turtle Beach card.
(DIR) Post #9xFpM7lXbZ4SxPC7jk by loweel@boseburo.ddns.net
2020-07-19T20:02:32.858769Z
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@InvaderXan yes, I am. 300 BAUD modem on AMIGA.
(DIR) Post #9xFte40WiTwIKX0uCe by mike@z.macgirvin.com
2020-07-19T20:32:23Z
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Don't even know where to start. We didn't call it the "internet" until the early 90s. I'll just say I got my site indexed in Yahoo by stopping by the office at Stanford Business School where yahoo was a single desktop Sun workstation and writing down the URL. Cat pics were in ASCII. I attended GopherCon. Oh and I worked on Netscape Navigator.
(DIR) Post #9xFyYZa4uiwsHpqNBA by ghost_bird@mythago.space
2020-07-19T21:45:27Z
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@InvaderXan I prefer to think of it as the 8199th day of the Eternal September.
(DIR) Post #9xFz4xw9tTjH5ncMNM by gomez@toot.wales
2020-07-19T21:51:28Z
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@InvaderXan DanDamn I can tick every box apart from never having a livejournal account. Am I just an Internet OAP?
(DIR) Post #9xGiFO3a8FCKw0QvHE by unwesen@mastodon.social
2020-07-20T06:17:30Z
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@wolf480pl@InvaderXanThat will always be my year zero, yes.
(DIR) Post #9xLHi50R4aF24Nh4gi by MrRawes@social.privacytools.io
2020-07-22T11:13:48Z
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@InvaderXan i love gopher
(DIR) Post #9xLm38t8pZXEohF248 by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T16:53:26Z
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@InvaderXan Gopher is newer than the web, not older.
(DIR) Post #9xLmMfB30QoqScvPxw by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T16:56:48Z
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@InvaderXan I would say it'd be more accurate to set Year 0 as starting on March 12, 1989, which was when the web started to be a thing, and that was and still is the internet's "killer app"
(DIR) Post #9xLmWsJ52sMW4qYGrw by fluffy@queer.party
2020-07-19T16:16:20Z
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@InvaderXan @maloki all of the above. I used IRC back in 1991. And I remember being envious of folks with a SLIP connection, back before PPP became a thing. Oh how I wanted to be able to send email or post to Usenet while downloading a file! (Via FTP of course.) plus being able to display *graphics*! Via X Windows!Heck, being able to use FTP without needing to download it to my shell account and then Kermit it home would have been nice.
(DIR) Post #9xLmWsoz8FsnfnTkbA by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T16:58:48Z
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@fluffy I high key miss internet access with a shell account included. Like, that should still be a thing.
(DIR) Post #9xLoX2j8VFDmIrwmES by fluffy@queer.party
2020-07-22T17:06:32Z
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@BalooUriza I feel like that became less necessary as people switched from shell dialup to PPP, and later got more bandwidth available. Shell accounts are still handy for stuff but there's not a lot you can do with them that you don't get by just installing WSL or being on a UNIXy environment in the first place.I think the main neat thing about them was the shared-resource camaraderie with fellow users, and https://tilde.club is great for that.
(DIR) Post #9xLoX2xJeWZ10qa6Km by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T17:21:06Z
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@fluffy Most PPP providers, before they got borged by the likes of OneMain, Earthlink, etc. usually provided shell access because it was literally easier to set up and maintain just letting the OS do it's job than reinvent the wheel.
(DIR) Post #9xLocu77RJ5rKMxYVk by woozle@toot.cat
2020-07-19T19:45:12Z
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@InvaderXan 1. yep2. used a modem at 300bps (bonus: wrote custom software to upload text files to the custom thingy at the other end)**3.* I think @Harena did she says "what counts as early adopter?" She got her account in 2003, LJ started in 1999...4. It fell? I remember there were security issues, and better things came along...5. Yep. (Never used it, tho.)6. AltaVista was new & sleek.7. Actually no! ...unless you count CompuServe/AOL/Prodigy (Harena, however, definitely did.)8. still exists; never used it9. actually no10. I keep wanting to do something to make Harena's personal site (which was originally on Angelfire!) more usable...11. We were both IRCops. She still has IRC running on her desktop.12. We were making fun of that back when it was a thing -- "the information supergoatpath"13. Maybe? They were distinctive -- but it's been awhile...14. yyyyyepp.
(DIR) Post #9xLocv1853te85AHoW by Shufei@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-07-19T20:18:18Z
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@woozle @InvaderXan @Harena Early Adopter was and is a special account type on LJ. It was like a basic free account, but has a few more perks. They closed it off pretty early. There are still a few EA accounts on LJ, bumbling around...I remember web before Yahoo. Yahoo suddenly made it useable. Links were submitted manually and manually approved. They never accepted my application to be listed on Yahoo!
(DIR) Post #9xLocvGNAO5ctMISZc by woozle@toot.cat
2020-07-20T00:34:47Z
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@Shufei @InvaderXan @Harena I do remember how Yahoo was when it first existed. I thought it was a bad idea when they switched to using crawlbots and automated indexing.I think I first discovered the web in 1995, if that gives you some idea.
(DIR) Post #9xLocvchpLxE0ckINs by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T17:22:20Z
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@woozle @InvaderXan @Shufei @Harena I find it amusing (and appropriate) that a lot of internet sites still reject signups from @aol.com addresses.
(DIR) Post #9xLorFhhxracLHupSy by uther@mastodon.roocita.com
2020-07-21T12:30:41Z
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@InvaderXan Not only do I check all your boxes, I still run an IRC server and I abhor Discord. We need an Internet Ancient Mastodon emoji. 😇
(DIR) Post #9xLorGQNHnJoZooV5U by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T17:24:32Z
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@uther I wish IRC was more fault tolerant. Pretty sure that's the number 1 reason why it's not still ubiquitous. If I'm in BFE on a connection that fades in and out on the weather, I'm missing everything going on while it's out and can't send anything new. Most chat systems, including (maybe especially) XMPP deal with this sanely; IRC doesn't.
(DIR) Post #9xLteFNWMaibL45iVM by cy@fedicy.allowed.org
2020-07-22T18:18:56.839726Z
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@fluffy @BalooUriza I use shell accounts all the time. It’s how I upload files to my website, how I synchronize my stories on my desktop and laptop, and how I put files onto the desktop of my mother’s computer. I use them to forward ports turning my VPS into a VPN, and to run p2p nodes on multiple computers.
(DIR) Post #9xLvG8YII86l7rlGbI by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-22T18:36:29Z
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@cy @fluffy I primary a Linux laptop so arguably so do I. ;O)
(DIR) Post #9xM7avj6N46YsYUw4m by HarneyBA@pleroma.site
2020-07-22T20:55:11.932467Z
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@InvaderXan Got 9 out of 15 with 3 more barely missed. Barely an "adult" but have undeniably been More Online than most people in their late 20s. bragging about brainrot ftw
(DIR) Post #9xMflD06OiTRn7WSfI by fluffy@queer.party
2020-07-22T20:08:40Z
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@cy @BalooUriza I mean, yeah I use a shell account for a lot of those things too, but mostly because my web server is an actual server and I fully believe that shell-based server administration still makes the most sense for anything small. And things should stay small. But that’s a separate set of problems I have with the modern Internet.
(DIR) Post #9xMflDDDbwxwRnew6q by fluffy@queer.party
2020-07-22T20:09:48Z
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@cy @BalooUriza what I don’t think is as useful is a shell account provided by your ISP
(DIR) Post #9xMflEJdVZh3rzfZke by cy@fedicy.allowed.org
2020-07-23T03:18:01.714917Z
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@fluffy @BalooUriza Oh sure, if my ISP gives me a shell account to a server on a fat pipe that I can install i2p on, that will save me from having to buy one from a VPS. But a shell account where all you can do is check company emails or something is pretty lame.
(DIR) Post #9xMjidc9OLzRHQLhTs by BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
2020-07-23T04:01:40Z
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@cy @fluffy Heh, that former part reminds me of the 90s on Teleport.com or Aracnet.com...
(DIR) Post #9xNon9kgXZhd2ZH6HY by nemo@mas.to
2020-07-23T16:33:55Z
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@InvaderXan Yep, hehehe👍 😂