"I have usernames older than you."

[catdad@ohai.social]

@Natasha_Jay <chuckles in Netscape>

[mxalba@blahaj.zone]

@itdude@hachyderm.io @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

OMG, DP! That's another blast from the same era... And Sinfest before the author went off the deep end...

[deutrino@mstdn.io]

@Natasha_Jay haha my icq number is lower

[darby3@zirk.us]

@Natasha_Jay wow

[tcmuffin@toot.wales]

@dertseha @Natasha_Jay

I grew up, and worked in IT, before the internet was a “thing”!

In fact I wrote my first computer program in 1973 before TCP was invented in 1974 🙄

[thoralf@soc.umrath.net]

@Natasha_Jay 15079984

[tamsynulthara@transfem.social]

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I still remember my UIN: 162126

[daveosaurus@mastodon.nz]

@Natasha_Jay "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@lobingera @Natasha_Jay Not unless you brag about your ICQ number (which is burned into your brain)

[thestrangelet@beige.party]

@Natasha_Jay Dayuum! Burnt to a crisp!

[wusel@fed.uu.org]

@Natasha_Jay Wat'n Jungspund.

[peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange]

@Natasha_Jay ICQ UID 16532, early user from ‘96.

[berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es]

@Natasha_Jay The perfect definition of the fediverse does not exis-

[staringatclouds@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay Yeah, you want to bully me ?

Bitch please

My generation invented the internet that you share aubergine emojis on, when I started using it, it was called the Joint Academic Network or JANET & it had links to DARPANET

We created bulletin boards, IRC, HTML & everything else you take for granted

I helped build your playground

So fuck off & play, child

But if you ever feel like contributing instead of bitching, you know where to find us

[justbob@kolektiva.social]

@Natasha_Jay hehe, that is why i keep yelling #TakeTheInternetBack, i remember what it was BEFORE the great corprite take over and this shit (not the #Fediverse or #XMPP (#Jabber) of cource) makes me sick.

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@MxAlba
116381 and I recall that faster than my first telephone number.

#sixdigitclub
@Natasha_Jay

[lobingera@chaos.social]

@ElBeeToots @Natasha_Jay

"... began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner, published in the July 5, 1993 ..."

[rjl20@sculpin.social]

@Natasha_Jay Hah, ICQ. I never bothered to sign up for ICQ because I and everyone I wanted to talk to had been on IRC for years before ICQ existed. My personal email domain is older than ICQ. It's old enough that I remember thinking of it as a "vanity domain".

Christ, I'm old.

[remke@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay

I miss that modem sound.

[remke@mstdn.social]

@gullevek @lobingera @Natasha_Jay

...not literally though? 😄