"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 Just technology that was facinating to someone who just prior had been living on a mountain reading outdated encyclopedias by kerosene lamp, and only listening to the radio for 15 minutes a day because batteries were hard to get.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... -
"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay haha my icq number is lower
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"I have usernames older than you."
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@Natasha_Jay :)
As I like to phrase it: Younger ones grew up in the internet. I grew up /with/ the internet.And, since we're showing off ICQ numbers: UIN 516801 here :)
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 🙄
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay 15079984
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I still remember my UIN:
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
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@Natasha_Jay "On the internet, nobody knows you are 50."
@lobingera @Natasha_Jay Not unless you brag about your ICQ number (which is burned into your brain)
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay Dayuum! Burnt to a crisp!
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@fucinafibonacci @spettacoli ma come non ha avuto successo?? Ma se ne hanno fatto sequel e serie tv a non finire! 😅
Forse ha floppato negli USA. Ma io me lo ricordo fighissimo al tempo, probabilmente ero piccolo me lo devo rivedere! Aveva un villain cattivissimo e tutta la storia non era male dai con Seat connery maestro d’armi! Un classico degli action anni 80!
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@gmarcosanti
ah beh, quello lo faccio sempre, sono brontolone per principio
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Macron approfitta della guerra e riaccende l’atomo: vuole più armi nucleari
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@linkachus17
Yes, it's such a beautiful day.
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@zeank
*mrrrrp*
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Ho visto la partita che ha vinto a Dubai contro Jasmine Paolini. A parte la qualità del gioco, non si poteva non tifare per lei vedendo i tifosi che hanno trasformato l'arena in uno stadio di Manila, ben sapendo le condizioni di lavoro che gran parte di loro sopporta (non soltanto) in quei Paesi. Fenomeno #AlexandraEala, quando il #tennis ispira una nazione ad essere migliore https://www.supertennis.tv/News/Wta/eala-editoriale-philippine-star-tennis-e-orgoglio-nazionale
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@akiro75.bsky.social
Oh grazie!!
