"I have usernames older than you."
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay brilliant reply
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay Or, to quote a friend:
"Listen, sonny, who the fuck do you think built the thing?" -
@Natasha_Jay I have domains older than you.
@ktims @Natasha_Jay "I filed FOIA requests to the FBI about myself before you were born."
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I hope someone has told them about https://escargot.chat/ where you can sign-up using your own ICQ and/or AIM handle and then use classic ICQ and AIM!
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"I have usernames older than you."
uhhhhh we invented this shit. why are YOU here? how bout we bully you young fuckheads who don’t respect their cyber elders? bitch please, until you’ve waited in line after school for two hours just to get 15 minutes of playtime with Oregon Trail so you could kill your friends off with dysentery, let’s not pretend we’re the ones who don’t belong here…… *drinks from garden hose and roams the streets like a feral fairy child whose MTV actually played music videos*
I HAVE USERNAMES OLDER THAN YOU!!!
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay nice quote. I wonder why people try to rage bait online over who is unable to use emoticons and social media correctly. My observation is that in any age group there are a lot of people who do not know how to use communication tech correctly, understand the tech to some degree and know how they are manipulated by it.
Also I do not know my ICQ number anymore, but I use my first university login as Mastodon handle. Thus, it's from 1993.
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"I have usernames older than you."
My first social media was a BBS at 300 Bauds and you had to know the right AT modem config command or you couldn't connect...
..and you had to whittle your modem out of wood, cuttle fish bone and use pirite and flint to spark binary sparks and blown them down copper tubes to the exchange where the lady would direct them with plugs to where they needed to go! -
uhhhhh we invented this shit. why are YOU here? how bout we bully you young fuckheads who don’t respect their cyber elders? bitch please, until you’ve waited in line after school for two hours just to get 15 minutes of playtime with Oregon Trail so you could kill your friends off with dysentery, let’s not pretend we’re the ones who don’t belong here…… *drinks from garden hose and roams the streets like a feral fairy child whose MTV actually played music videos*
I HAVE USERNAMES OLDER THAN YOU!!!
🤣
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I don't think any of us really want to be on the internet anymore
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@Natasha_Jay
They think the internet was invented yesteryear by vibe coders, while we were already creating ugly websites with stolen GIFs in notepad in 2000 and earlier. -
@Natasha_Jay I'm so cyber I piss neon and spit chrome. I cut my teeth in a time when you would swap floppies and underground zines. I would try to learn every machine I touched, from the C64 at my friends house because his dad was an enthusiast, to the Tandy I inherited from a dead grandfather I had never met. No modem, no wifi, no youtube tutorial, no money. Just technology that was facinating to someone who just prior had been living on a mountain reading outdated encyclopedias by kerosene lamp, and only listening to the radio for 15 minutes a day because batteries were hard to get.
A computer was science fiction still, something from the movies. The ICU message notification still can set my brain on fire with anticipation. I keep my notifications off now, because no amount of push messages or advertising will ever compare to the sound that meant the person who I could actually be myself with had arrived online.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay i have configuration files older than my co-workers…
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@Natasha_Jay Who actually cares?
@Iveyline you, clearly. @Natasha_Jay
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay fuck me, this thread is making me miss those days in the 2000s when me and my cousins and my friends and their friends would all sit around on the living room computer and swap software, websites, ideas and games.
I'm in my mid-20s. I don't remember the dawn of the internet. I wasn't there. But i'd like to think that I managed to catch a glimpse of what could have been.
We have to get back there.
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My first social media was a BBS at 300 Bauds and you had to know the right AT modem config command or you couldn't connect...
..and you had to whittle your modem out of wood, cuttle fish bone and use pirite and flint to spark binary sparks and blown them down copper tubes to the exchange where the lady would direct them with plugs to where they needed to go!@n_dimension Whistling 300baud carrier for tests ;-)
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay 10019756. just missed the shorter one.
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@Natasha_Jay I'm so cyber I piss neon and spit chrome. I cut my teeth in a time when you would swap floppies and underground zines. I would try to learn every machine I touched, from the C64 at my friends house because his dad was an enthusiast, to the Tandy I inherited from a dead grandfather I had never met. No modem, no wifi, no youtube tutorial, no money. Just technology that was facinating to someone who just prior had been living on a mountain reading outdated encyclopedias by kerosene lamp, and only listening to the radio for 15 minutes a day because batteries were hard to get.
A computer was science fiction still, something from the movies. The ICU message notification still can set my brain on fire with anticipation. I keep my notifications off now, because no amount of push messages or advertising will ever compare to the sound that meant the person who I could actually be myself with had arrived online.
oh wait maybe that wasn't ironic
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
My ICQ UIN was 456629 but at some point it was stolen from me because it was a highly coveted 6 digit UIN so I made a new one which was 7869244 and those numbers are indeed etched into my memory.@MxAlba @Natasha_Jay
Mine was 6 digits too - and stolen, too!!! -
"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay <chuckles in Netscape>
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@MxAlba @Natasha_Jay
Mine was 6 digits too - and stolen, too!!!@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...

