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[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@blogdiva I first got online in 1993 and while I definitely remember Gopher, I didn't actually use it that much. Telnet, FTP, Usenet, and console web browsing with lynx were my first taste of the Internet

[skleefeld@retro.pizza]

@blogdiva Got my first 300 baud modem in 1985/86. Mostly used for logging into hyper-local BBSes. (One of them was actually run by a friend of mine who lived maybe 2-3 miles away.) The largest forum I visited back then was the Sierra Entertainment BBS, looking for game hints and such. That didn't last long, though, because that was a long-distance call to California and there were a couple of pricey phone bills that came in shortly afterwards.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva I was another BITNET user. For a year in 1990. Then we got on the Internet.

In 1995 i was in grad school and, coincidentally, my dad shared the apartment with me. One day i came home to show him a “web page.” I had made my own homepage with my photo, CS work I was doing, etc.

His asked “why would anyone want to read about YOU??” and that’s pretty much where his interest ended.

Thanks, dad.

[nirak@carhenge.club]

@blogdiva telnet to search the library catalog from home

[kims@mas.to]

@blogdiva
Remember the internet gopher hunt?

Anyway, my first husband proposed to me using the unix 'write' command

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social we had Prodigy when I was a kid, buuuuut I don't think it was connected to the internet at the time. So I don't know if it counts

I'm sure I racked a hell of a phone bill up playing Mad Maze, though...

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@darth_hideout *SCREAMING*

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social on a related yet not related note, I'm now just going "NYEAH NYA NYA YA YA YA YA NYA YAAAAA YEAAAAAAH" because obviously I now have The Prodigy's Firestarter in my head.

twisted firestarter!!!

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party AH!!!!

THE GREY ALBUM!

The reason my "growing up in Utah" self heard Jay-Z! And also the reason I can recite all of 99 Problems!

and it wasn't until we did private karaoke at a friend's house that my hispanic spouse "let me" do 99 Problems... and figure out WHY my "growing up in Utah, lily white" self SHOULD NOT do 99 Problems at karaoke

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party needless to say I got about, uh, halfway through it before I just started going, "... ooooooooohhhhh" instead of singing.

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@blogdiva #BBS guy here. Probably Gopher as well for what we'd now call 'the Internet'.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@aud LOL cant remember if we ever had that. compuserve, on the other hand, was my first GUI

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social ... ooooh, I just pulled up the video for this, and huuuuuh, how did I not notice he was wearing a "stars and stripes" sweater/jumper before

yeaaaaaah

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party BUT, I did do Helter Skelter a few weeks later, there, SO

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@aud @FeloniousPunk TBH prefer it to both of the originals. Dangermouse’s 99 problems is the remix to end all remixes.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party IT'S SO GOOD. I don't think I have a copy, actually, anymore, which is something I should remedy.

I kind of feel spoiled because that album was one of my first exposure to remixes, so a lot of other "remixes" just feel like... oh, the artist sent you the individual tracks and you just... stirred em up a bit? huh. well, that's nice...

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@blogdiva

Does X.25 count?

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@blogdiva

America Online via 33.6. Not an OG, but still old

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@TeflonTrout was forced into AOL after they bought up Compuserve. those were the days.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva Hard to say. I was active on BBS's in the early '80s. That would have been XModem, I spoze, in terms of protocol, and DEC VT100 emulation from Pro*Comm.