"I have usernames older than you."

[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? 😄

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@Remke @lobingera @Natasha_Jay Perhaps some has it tatooted on their ass?!

[debacle@framapiaf.org]

@Natasha_Jay

I never used ICQ or Facebook, but I still call #XMPP by its confiscated name, #Jabber.

https://mov.im/blog/debacle/76bf90a4-5f59-4962-92db-6cd859f42ec9

[remke@mstdn.social]

@gullevek @lobingera @Natasha_Jay

8 billion people.
Millions of them have weird tattoos on their ass. So why not a user number? It beats the not so original "666" 😄

[storiespettinate@mastodon.uno]

@RJL20 @Natasha_Jay

I'm old as you, bro/sis. "ICQ: what's this vanity news? IRC is enough" yes, I'm SO old, I said it.