ICQ 2042903
I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.
Submitted 1 month ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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johnbreslin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not even 6 digits. Child.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Man, I still remember my old dial-up BBS handle.
Surp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aol mp3 channel 1
Zerofactorial@noc.social 1 month ago
@BonesOfTheMoon I was 76474.3012 on Compuserve
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
76474 Sidney, TX or close by.
Zerofactorial@noc.social 1 month ago
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bro got brutally post mogged. Unfortunate for him that he crossed paths with an Elder. He needs to grind 4chan for the next few weeks if he hopes to ever recover. Instagram reels won’t help him out of this one.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
UltraGiGaGigantic slaps BonesOfThrMoon around a bit with a large trout
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Frigg off, phreak!
mkhopper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
57598641, checking in.
Also, I just recently found a list online of old-school BBS names and numbers, and that was a fun 15 minutes going, “yup, called that one. and that one. ooh, that was the one with great u/d ratios.”
Ah Telix…DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Behold… a 7th!
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
None of that is a flex. ICQ is the same shit from the endless September. Personally I used to read Usenet on a mainframe, and thought it was cool we could see weather maps with gopher. I don’t think any of this makes me cool at all. Just that I was nerdy and liked the escape technology used to be when the signal to noise was good.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was on Usenet before AOL even knew it existed.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ICQ number? Newfangled stuff. BITNET TALK rulez. I wonder if anybody here has ever heard of BITNET…
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’d think he would have set up a usenet server running over UUCP. Or perhaps writing sendmail.cf files by hand?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember ratio FTP sites
flandish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mine is 4906xxx. Yep. been a while.
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
conversations? on geocities? telnet on geocities? wtf is this?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think they’re referring to some early java applet clients that were popular back in the day. he might have telnet’d into the servers that the clients (which were hosted on geocities) would connect to.
only reason why I think that is because I did similar and even found a way to circumvent room bans using telnet 🤣.
In one server variant you could change your name to a mod after they left the room and have admin privileges in that room.
a particularly shitty mod at the time received my ire and I was able to ban them from their own rooms because the software only validated on the clients to not ban yourself 😈
man, I’ve always been an asshole.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I never had a conversation on geocities, but I do remember you could do some SSI stuff, so maybe it was possible. I think lost my last geocities site password and didn’t care to go through the effort of resetting it in '96 or so.
You can telnet into the HTTP port basically everywhere that doesn’t auto-redirect to the HTTPS port (and start/resume a TLS session), and there could be stuff in the HTML source (or headers) that a browser might hide from you, at least by default – but I can’t think of how you would use that in geocities to “see private messages”. (In theory you could manually start/resume a TLS session, but a proper telnet client might break on some of the bytes received, and you’d definitely have to figure out how to send some non-ASCII bytes.)