let’s bring ICQ back.
I'm down with this
Submitted 14 hours ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to historymemes@piefed.social
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Pulsar@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
mnfalconia_a2gc@retrolemmy.com 5 hours ago If someone is going to run with this idea, I very sincerely ask that you please do it in one of the locations marked on this map. Then my company will be able to operate a 1990s-technology cellular phone network in the proposed neo-Amish town, a network that will enable 1990s GSM cellphones to actually work! And I do mean it with full seriousness - the linked website is my actual company, with all attendant legal and contact info.
Out of the set of locations marked on the linked map, I strongly prefer the ones in Oregon. I and the rest of my founding team are based in California, and I am a trans woman - hence certain places are, quite sadly, simply unsafe for to me travel to, let alone the intricate tasks of building towers, installing equipment and then operating and maintaining it. There are no PCS spectrum vacancies in our home state of CA, but OR is close, has good spectrum available, and it is a lovely state with strong LGBTQ+ rights.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I dream of a time in my life when I can sit around in my grandpa chair playing 80’s and 90’s video games on my 90inch PPMQ+LER/LED with macrovision and google-tone color rendering 3D/8D ultra-thin TV in a retro case to make it look like a giant version of those old floor model “piece of furniture in and of themselves” TVs like my grandpa had back in '84. Maybe my AI grandson can play along so I can relive the childlike wonder of playing through these games for the first time from the perspective of a kid AI.
Stolas@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago I’m not. There were some awful parts of the 90s.
It’ll never be the same anyway. Something that a lot of legacy gaming servers has taught me is that you can’t replicate nostalgic memories.
Aneb@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
So um is this just millennial retirement? Boomers are getting their senior communities we need our own communities
Noyesster@piefed.social 7 hours ago sign me up
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 7 hours ago
But will it have LGBT Rights?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’ve heard people mocked for being “stuck in the 60s.”
cknight@fedinsfw.app 8 hours ago ICQ, IRC, and Livejournal.
Not Amish, LoTeK!
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 8 hours ago people who say this never actually, like, quit social media or anything that would bring them closer to this
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
IRC and newsgroups, too. Self hosted websites and forums.
I hate to be the regressive, but yeah…this was better.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Bend, Oregon
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago Guck that, move it to summer 2001 so we can at least use ICQ and constantly warn everyone about 9/11
honestly right now ain’t so bad. we got microbreweries and shit.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Anything with a processor inside of it and connected to a high speed internet connection will enshittify. One wat is to limit CPU speed and internet, say use solar/wind powered mesh routers instead of fiber connections, so good enough to get info and simple communication, not enough for lots of pictures and video. That means you need a blockbuster for video.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 hours ago
Blockbuster doesn’t carry pornography.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They don’t carry anything
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 hours ago
That’s not entirely true.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
and the economic crisis?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I think I have enough hardware laying around to serve as a dialup ISP for this. And the upstream bandwidth I already have is probably more than that of my dialup ISP 30 years ago.
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Instead of AIM, MeshCore. Cheap, off-net, encrypted, solar-powered, simple.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This guy is doing it https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline
AI was the last straw. Have you heard of that island off India where the indiginous population kills any outsiders fool-hardy enough to land? They are doing the rest of us a favor by preserving a way of life we may need again someday, or at the very least should not want to see completely extinguished. A reminder. Never forget your roots. Here in Pennsylvania we have the Amish performing a similar function. Significantly less hostile, though still set apart, they bear witness to what was normal for all of us a couple short centuries ago: horse and buggy, wood stoves and lanterns. My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980. Neo-Amish. I’m fine driving a car and flipping a lightswitch, by which I mean that they don’t make me into something I hate, which AI and doomscrolling do.
Zorque@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The technology isnt the problem, though. Its how people are using it that is.
This is just the “80s were so much better… as ling as you werent gay” or “50s were so much better… as long as you werent black” but for the 90s.
The people making our lives arent going to stop just cause you slap a fresh coat of
denialnostalgia over it.
mlg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago 
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago Count me in.
fireweed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Can we keep the “no smoking inside commercial establishments” policy at least? Otherwise I’m down.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Also can we keep the progress (what little there has been) we made for LGBTQ folks?
a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
As long as we make it taste like pizza hut from the early 90s, cause they went down hard and their pizza is kind of ass, now.
Drewmeister@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Take me back to the time when I would finish before the bottom half of jenna jameson even manages to load
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well, with dial-up that could be 10 minutes.
You’d still beat me by 50 minutes, though.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I would probably choose the era of roughly 2012-2016.
Blockbuster went out of business for a reason. It was worse than Redbox and worse than Netflix’s mail service. And eventually Netflix’s streaming reached a magical peak where it was still affordable and had a great library. Almost everything was either Netflix or Hulu, and HBO waa only for really expensive high-budget stuff. Used to be Disney movies on Netflix.
Also… Idk how old this tweet is but it’s weird to suddenly zee Nikki Limo pop up. I used to really enjoy her Tasty Tuesday show years ago.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Your wish is granted. You’ll forever live Trump’s first campaign
paultimate14@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Better the campaign than the presidency
Also technically his first campaign was in 2000. Officially, 2016 was his 2nd campaign. Unofficially, it was his 4th.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oh we need LAN parties too! Bawls and pizza and Total Annihilation!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
ICQ, please. Mine was 737916.
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago I had a six digit number too and I have unfortunately forgotten what it was and this is now one of my life’s greatest disappointments.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Mine was using the password “buddha” for my ICQ account and getting it stolen by somebody in Russia. Shameful.
farmgineer@nord.pub 4 hours ago
You can keep the IMs. I would like MP3s, though. A library could have a computer that can be booked for research purposes.
I’m debating over on-demand video and better TVs. Maybe a compromise would be the community decides its own broadcast schedule so it’s not as instant but still allows some modern media.