Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

telllos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uh oh!

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hear those words.

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• PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  30250969 was my user id.

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  • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I try to remember mine I get confused with my SSN.

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  • KillGorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    16577270 was mine

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      8833052 was mine

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    • pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      25553477 was mine, before it was stolen by some russian.

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    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m so happy I’m not the only one.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My ICQ UIN is only 7 digits

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My sweet memory of an instant messenger not trying to fuck with you (lots of incoming messages were, though, but those were sometimes real people ; I actually know of people who met each other via ICQ contact directory and have a happy marriage ; don’t think anything else has come close).

  Other than that, it was just a better time. WCIII, Perfect World, WoW, Travian. Forum-based text roleplaying games (LOTR and HP). And ICQ as the way people would communicate, which would transcend interests fading, forums dying etc.

  Pre-MS Skype was nice too, though.

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  • Marruk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OG Travian was the shit. I made a lot of friends there that persisted long after I left the game.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, for me mostly not that far - but the only time I was in an alliance close to the top has indeed left some people in my buddy list.

      Other times it was mostly me and my IRL friends and their friends and so on in alliances I’d be let into.

      But - yeah. For some people it was like real war, with all the logistics and obligatory setup of a second and a third so that your account would never be AFK when a few thousands off troops with catapults are coming for ya. I still don’t understand how they’d have the time, with university and school and work.

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I tried to recover an ancient icq account but it looks like the company sold and nuked all the old accounts. Bummer, was hoping all my mid 90s friends might still be there.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also changed protocol. Old UINs were, I think, usable for some time.

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