20 years ago today.

[ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social]

@andybaio I quit twitter 10 years ago this May. It was filling up with nazis and fascists. This was before I even heard of elon musk.

[sullust@techhub.social]

@andybaio yeah, I’m old enough to remember when AOL added this mysterious section called “the internet” with 4 areas of unknown use: gopher, ftp, news groups, and something called the World Wide Web.

The “open social web” was like a bunch of small towns. Wonderful if you were born in the right one but if not wandering the random human connections was hard and many gave up on the way. Early Twitter/Reddit made that discovery a lot easier.

So what we have now is rotten and terrible, but let’s not over romanticize our past silos.

[fulanigirl@mstdn.social]

@andybaio
and he is still a jackass! Go figure.

[rose@linuxrocks.online]

@Ulrich_the_elder @andybaio Love that. Used to be that a mark of pride was being an early adopter. That's shifted to the real street cred being among the first to dis-adopt.

[knutson_brain@sfba.social]

@andybaio
Missing #YeOldeWebbe …

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@andybaio I remember when I had no Twitter account and was really confused when people linked to tweets, and there was just this short text, with no context, just some large font text on a blank background. Something that seemed like a reply to something else, but no link back to that text.

And there was a page (the frontpage?) with every tweet made, in real time.

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@andybaio

I loved ZeFrank, And Rocketboom and MoBuzzTV...

[hendrikstier@chaos.social]

@andybaio twttr.eu - there might be invites @timpritlove @sixtus

[gab@denton.social]

@andybaio
Oh no don't remind me of House of Cosbys!
@davew

[bascule@mas.to]

@andybaio sports racers! Racing sports! Show me your power move!

I’ve still got my ducky. Ze Frank was amazing at the time.

Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do I do I do chika quack quack!

[andymcmillan@xoxo.zone]

@andybaio I will never forget the one time I met him after he spoke at an event in Dublin and I told him Wagamama was better than any ramen in L.A (I had never been to L.A) and he immediately stopped talking to me and walked out of the bar

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@andybaio remember when Ze Frank joined Twitter and said "We should have a Color War here like at summer camp" and it burned up Twitter for like a week and a half?