This is how you accidentally start a Gen-X commune.
I'm down with this
Submitted 1 month ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to historymemes@piefed.social
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artifex@piefed.zip 1 month ago
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Can I have my portable cd player back?
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I mean, you can get an old phone and rip your CDs and put each one on a separate 1 GB SDcard…
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They can also… Get a portable cd player
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Sergio@piefed.social 1 month ago
OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yahoo or MSN.
dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
IRC is still around and kicking. My friends and I use it all the time.
ElJefe@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And Domino’s instead of Pizza Hut
somebody_to_love@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Give me back the golden era of Usenet!
Yahoo Messenger
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Maybe that’s why I still use IRC. I was doing this subconsciously all along.
jdr@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.
Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.
Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Both still exist:
https://trillian.im/
https://pidgin.im/
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Though if your friend is over and wants to check their msn, DO NOT LET THEM LOG IN TO YOUR TRILLIAN. It will merge your friends lists because Trillian followed a “one person many accounts” model, not a “many people each with many accounts” one.
Well, the IRC part is easy. Just got to connect and start chatting.
If you are interested, may I suggest irc.inthemansion.com/6697 join #lobby to get started Theres also a webchat available on the website :)
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It’s period appropriate, should be fine
uh oh
Enkrod@feddit.org 1 month ago
No, not ICQ
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Both. Pagers with LCD or eink only. No LED screens.
OLED. Can still use modern advances in practical tech. Can still have open source, modern kernel linux, modern ram and low power 3nm chips. Just keep all the tech simple and clean of marketing and addiction. All the good, less of the bad.
Ele7en7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think I have my Advisor Gold around here somewhere