Do not speak to me of the old magic, I was there when it was written.
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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?
Is it okay to bully nazis?
Just like what a butthead would say.
Uhh, shut up Beavis.
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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
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.
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.
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.
SpaceHey may not be the same, but it's what my girlfriend uses!!
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.
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
ICQ 2042903
16577270 was mine not even close to op number.
Shit, my steam account is older than most of the highschoolers I work with
My Steam account is almost 18 years old and I still have to select DOB when viewing "adult" games....
Well, I guess Steam won't have a problem with California law
Steam could stop asking in California, since it's now the responsibility of the operating system to tell Steam your age.
That might be.
Can't be very sure about how it turns out for the Steam Deck.
The law's definition of OS might not be on the same page as ours.
My steam account is older than the fresh University grad we just hired.
Not even 6 digits. Child.
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..
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.
Or pidgin when it was called gaim.
Omg Trillian! I haven't heard that name in forever. You just unlocked a flood of memories.
And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.
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18982172 here.
Fun fact. ICQ was the the go to messaging platform for the porn industry and was actively being used in the industry right up to the point it was bought by a russian company.
Anyone who tries to cut anyone else out of the herd is a dick, nothing more. I am the Army and Navy.
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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.
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I had to telnet into chat rooms. We had no browsers. I was old before you were born.
Telnet. An elegant tool for a more civilized time.
I see you, graybeard. And I pay respect.
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