• Abbysimons@lemmy.world
    22·
    17 hours ago

    Honestly, the people who were around in the early internet days helped build the online world we all use now. A little respect for the veterans of dial-up isn’t a bad thing. 😄

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      14 hours ago

      You see me now a veteran, of a thousand internet wars.
      I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the tones of dialup roar.
      And I’m young enough to look at, but far too old to meme
      All the scars on the inside…

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
      15·
      16 hours ago

      Back in our day, the Internet yelled at you when connecting to it. I think that conditioning helped us brace for what’s to come, and we should bring that feature back.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Look, instant messages were instant, but getting the computer to boot up, connecting to the Internet and logging in were not.

        I’m on the younger end but I remember so Many people having routines like prep the coffee machine the night before, when the alarm went off you would get up youd hit the power button on the computer, turn on the coffee machine, then hop in the shower. When you got out of the shower you would log in, and go grab a cup of coffee, then come back and connect to the Internet. Drink your coffee and you could check the 2 items and emails you needed before running out the door

  • ...m...@ttrpg.network
    6·
    14 hours ago

    …yeah, come back after you’ve pulse-dialed an acoustic coupler at 300 baud to network your terminal emulator with a shell account, kid…

  • thewebroach@lemmy.world
    25·
    19 hours ago

    23715769

    Social media used to be about socializing and communicating. These days its all drivel that has bren productized into a vehicle where streaming addictive brain rot keeps the advertisements flowing and lowers self esteem.

    Gen Z may have adopted the internet but it was born of us- AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC servers, news groups… all on a dial-up modem. The good old days where there wasnt enough bandwidth for all the ads of today, and the most intrusive ads were a 468x60 pixel banner at the top or bottom of the netscape page

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
      11·
      17 hours ago

      I feel like those platform ideas came initially from people who wanted to build something cool. Something people would use. The ads were a side effect of being part of the tech company.

      Now I feel they are built because it’s a way to show ads or harvest data.

      • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world
        9·
        17 hours ago

        Exactly, the priorities have flipped. It used to be that ads were a necessary evil to fund the development and hosting costs for the service you actually care about and want to provide. Now it seems like the service is the necessary evil that’s only there to provide an excuse for the real goal - selling ad space.

  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
    322·
    21 hours ago

    Okay, I get this may be off-topic, but “It is okay to bully–”, no, it’s not okay to bully anyone. What is passing by these people’s minds?

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    23 hours ago

    I am one of the few people, it seems, that can not for the life of me remember my ICQ number… but I was there, using it.

    Anyone remember Trillian? Having your Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Messenger, etc all in one program…

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      17 hours ago

      I remember my ICQ number, 4170129, but I don’t remember why I know it.

      Surely I didn’t have to type it in every time I logged in, did I? That would be a really stupid UI.

    • LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip
      10·
      23 hours ago

      I also don’t remember my ICQ number, but I had one. And I remember my first time stepping into a 99 cent only store and their registers used that “uh oh” sound from it. I always felt like nobody else recognized where it was from.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      7·
      22 hours ago

      I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.

    • BlueEther@lemmy.nz
      1·
      15 hours ago

      It was just last year that re-found my little black book from the late 90’s and 2000’s with all my accounts from back then AIM/ICQ/Yahoo, shit there was even a /. account number sub 100,000 that I couldn’t log into any more

  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
    9·
    18 hours ago

    I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin on a team managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB of RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.

    • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      18 hours ago

      My Reddit account was 19 years old before I was permabanned by their stupid AI for liking Luigi pics and saying I wish Trump wouldn’t wake up in response to a pic of him napping 😔

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      24 hours ago

      Saw it on an episode of MASH.

      Henry is dating a 22 year old nurse. Hawkeye tells Henry that Henry has bunions older than his girlfriend.

  • ModCen@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    19 hours ago

    You wouldn’t be in my Top 8

    I chuckled. I miss MySpace. Choosing a song for your profile was great. Facebook should add that feature to their profiles. So should Bluesky and Mastodon.

      • ModCen@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        16 minutes ago

        I looked that up, looks interesting. Apparently it’s not available for us in the UK though because they say they don’t have the resources to comply with age verification, which is now a legal requirement for social media in the UK

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 hours ago

    I remember the rise and fall of icq. I laughed from the real internet as you kids played, knowing it was a fad wouldn’t last, not worth taking seriously.

    I played online before the internet, when it was scattered individuals, or when you needed access to separate telenet and arpanet, when you could keep in your head all the accessible nodes, when the building blocks you take for granted were all new and exciting ideas

    Now get off my lawn

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
    331·
    1 day ago

    ICQ? Listen here, young man.

    I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron.

    We did school over HF radio with School of the Air, had no phone lines, and barely reliable electricity.

    Do not speak to me of the deep magics. I was there when they were written.

    double biceps flex

    farts

    breaks a hip

    • doctor0710@lemmy.zip
      3·
      24 hours ago

      Ooh, Australia, I have a question. Was PalTalk a big thing over there? Obviously way after what you described. I remember my father having an old classmate over from Australia and he introduced us to “The Internet”, and how instant messaging was possible a cross borders through PalTalk. Even though I never heard anyone using it in Europe, even years past that encounter.

      • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
        3·
        23 hours ago

        No, not that I know of. We use to have local / oz only IRC channels, because overseas calls were expensive. So, you would dial into your ISP and then have access to city/state wide IRCs like AusNet. Later that became national. That was circa 94-99.

        It was BBS before that.

        I remember buying a small black and white TV from a second hand store to watch the 2000 Olympics and chatting to people over mIRC simultaneously.

        The TV was sitting right next to a Apple Newton in the store. When I went back to get it, it had already been sold. Ended up buying a palm pilot 1000 instead.