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 11 months agoI 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.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 months ago
MrBungle@lemmy.ca 11 months 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).
evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
CompuServe email addresses
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Once upon a time, I had a 6-digit ICQ number.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still have mine, just found out it still works.
MrBungle@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s some OG shit there! I still remember my number. It was an 8 digit haha
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, I’d give anything to remember the number. I’d make all my friends get accounts, just to flex.