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

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • glorkon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    1. My ICQ…

    And when young people ask me if I ever play multi-player games… my dude, I played the first one. Midimaze on Atari ST.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    BBS was the shiz in the olden days

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    • PodPerson@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When the internet was fun

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      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        –When-- Before the internet was fun

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      • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MO7fkZc5o&pp=0gcJCY4Bo7Vq…

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  • jeffep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And still falling for the bait

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Single colour monitors, kids! Single colour monitors!

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Team orange or team green?

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      • monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh man, I had to use the orange ones sometimes at my first programming job. They were VAX/VMS dumb terminals. It sucked getting stuck with one of those, because the job was making a visualization GUI for some data, and these ones literally couldn’t run the GUI; they were text-only. Eventually they started reserving one of the GUI-capable machines for me.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Green al the way

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      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Orange at school, green at home.

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  • golgaloth@writing.exchange ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    @BonesOfTheMoon

    Attachment: cdn.masto.host ↗
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    • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dont be rude to your mama - laugh at the memes she shares.

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You feel me.

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  • turnipjs@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    also they were like 20something when myspace started anyway

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  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB if RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    fuck. i can’t remember my icq # anymore. it was 6 digits and started with an 8.

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    • nathanjent@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      867530

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      • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nein!

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Angel is a centerfold!

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That I le remember

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    • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Mine was somewhere in the 2 millions. I probably still have it saved somewhere.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I vaguely remember somebody sending me a bitcoin many many years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tom and I go way back. He’s never given you a thumbs up.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We built this city…!

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s nothing. I was on ebaumsworld

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I used telnet talkers! No web browsers existed.

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      • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Shit… you’re all pups…

        I was on whatever the hell the network was between Stanford and the elementary schools in Palo Alto in the mid 1970’s and cut my online teeth on an IBM Teletype 33!

        (Now we’re talking “old school.”)

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ISCABBS?

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    • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I looked up “They’re taking the hobbit to isengard” the other day for no particular reason. I felt old when I saw it was 19 years old. Then I remembered it was on ytmnd before that.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Badger Badger Badger Badger

        MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The dude who answers, reminds me of my dad.

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  • moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You wouldn’t be in my Top 8

    I chuckled. I miss MySpace. Choosing a song for your profile was great. Facebook should add that feature to their profiles. So should Bluesky and Mastodon.

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    • may_be@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      SpaceHey may not be the same, but it’s what my girlfriend uses!!

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      • moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I looked that up, looks interesting. Apparently it’s not available for us in the UK though because they say they don’t have the resources to comply with age verification, which is now a legal requirement for social media in the UK

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  • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    18982172 here.

    Fun fact. ICQ was the the go to messaging platform for the porn industry and was actively being used in the industry right up to the point it was bought by a russian company.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember the rise and fall of icq. I laughed from the real internet as you kids played, knowing it was a fad wouldn’t last, not worth taking seriously.

    I played online before the internet, when it was scattered individuals, or when you needed access to separate telenet and arpanet, when you could keep in your head all the accessible nodes

    Now get off my lawn

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  • gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    icq 29533018 hit me up, but of course that was already an additional fancy layer on top of text only chat. I had it bridged in my bitlbee setup via libpidgin together with my gtalk and irc and other xmpp stuff, and had it run in irssi in a screen on my server (next to the other screen that ran mutt for my email).

    and check this: to this day I consider it the best chat setup I’ve ever had.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember my CompuServe id. I remember the sequence to kick the operator off a call and jump into AT&T’s switching network for the free calls. A 300 baud modem was the shit in 85. Most these fetuses have no idea how anything works and what I used to do to get a connection would make their mind explode.

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  • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    66618055 I kept putting off getting on. I was online on the CompuServe days before Prodigy or AOL. I had three different places to access the internet back in 1992. My catchphrase is “I am from the internet. I’m here to help.” I deeply miss Usenet.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stop…PLEASE!!! …i can only get SO erect!

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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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  • KillGorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    16577270 was mine not even close to op number.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anyone who tries to cut anyone else out of the herd is a dick, nothing more.

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Army Navy Air Force baby.

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      • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Up here in Canada we have “Legion” clubs where veterans go to socialize (drink) and we also have “The Army and Navy” clubs where veterans go to socialize (drink). It may be the same down south but am unsure. I would never exclude the air force by design. 😊

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  • TTimo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    9337000 checking in

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    • TTimo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      968015 was my boss

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      • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        1576488 checking in

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  • limelight79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I turned off those modem noises.

    I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 with the beautiful aluminum case.

    Facebook, Myspace, etc. all came after I finished grad school.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I had a crappy phone line back then, so I needed those sounds to diagnose connection issues.

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  • ronalicious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I couldn’t join facebook cuz I no longer had my .edu address. also, it was on a vax machine…

    but i still remember it.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anybody here remember Plastic, circa 2000? It was a forum kind of like Reddit, although I don’t remember if it had upvotes or not.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      upvotes and gamification of human interaction ruined the internet and are directly responsible for the extremity of discourse today.

      The internet was so much better before that shit.

      Which is also the era before social media, because as far as I’m aware, social media introduced those addiction driven gamification mechanism for what should be, by now, clearly obvious reasons to even the most thick skulled individuals.

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      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The internet was so much better before that shit.

        No, you’re looking at it through rose colored glasses. Pure chronological sorting purely awarded the most active commenters regardless of quality, and led people to submit lots of low quality comments. Plus there was the “bump” phenomenon where a useless comment was made simply to manipulate the sorting.

        Forums before slashdot just weren’t that great without heavy moderation. By outsourcing some portion of moderation to the users, it made for higher quality discussion in the forums that allowed threading and voting.

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  • Wondahbread@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2251298

    I am elite. Give me warez doodz!

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  • Iunnrais@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have the number “x277853” burned into my memory… but I can’t 100% remember what it was for. I want to say it was my ICQ, but no one else seems to have an x at the beginning of theirs? Where was this x number from?

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  • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ICQ 514984 checking in.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    8833052

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    • v_krishna@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      2845383

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        4469182

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