Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.

• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can remember mine too, 4170129. I just can’t remember why I remember it. The numbers I tend to remember are the ones that I actually had to use often. For example, I remember some phone numbers because to call someone I actually had to punch in (or dial) their phone number. But, did we have to type in our IDs from memory when logging in or something? That seems like it would be a terrible UI, and surely by the mid 90s nobody was still doing that.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you wanted to find someone when I signed up for ICQ you had to know their UIN.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I still don’t think that would be enough for me to remember it. It would mean I’d have to give it out to people. But, I didn’t do that so often that I’d have memorized the number and remembered it for 30 years.

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