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I hear you. When I was a teen, Internet was: A handful of focused websites or your buddies geocities / angelfire site.
Chatting in crazy chat rooms on IRC, and having your close friends on ICQ.
Using a dial up modem to play doom, Warcraft 2, red alert, duke nukem, quake, StarCraft, total annihilation… etc.

Those were fun times. Felt like the bleeding edge of tech… hiding out and having fun in places people haven’t even heard of.

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Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Once upon a time, I had a 6-digit ICQ number.

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- aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Still have mine, just found out it still works.
  
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- MrBungle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s some OG shit there! I still remember my number. It was an 8 digit haha
  
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  - Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I’d give anything to remember the number. I’d make all my friends get accounts, just to flex.
    
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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I discovered IRC in the 2020s already (I am Gen Z so wasn’t even online before mid-2010s), and from what I’ve seen in the descriptions of the “old internet”, looks like some servers I am in preserved the spirit) Some people in the rooms also have their own cozy websites, including me)

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- MrBungle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right on, I rejoined IRC during the COVID shutdowns. It’s just nice to be chatting somewhere where a company isn’t flooding me with advertisements and/or harvesting my data (that I can tell at least).
  
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evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
CompuServe email addresses

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