IN OTHER NEWS

[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.

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@darth_hideout
Damn that's a lot of data Google has slurped up on you.
@blogdiva

[holsta@mastodon.art]

@blogdiva My teacher at the time clearly wanted to demonstrate the reach of the internet.

From our little classroom in Denmark we had to use gopher to find the opening hours of a particular library in Hawaii, and a few other far away places.

Later came some newfangled things called a browser and HTML.

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@blogdiva

I guess it depends what "online" means. From 1986, I was using the IBM internal VM/CMS mail tools and fora - I've been racking my brain trying to remember what they were called, but they were shared discussion threads using XEDIT as a client.

As for something actually internet-adjacent, I was using FTP, Gopher and Lynx in 1992 and then Mosaic.

But that's only 34 years. Did you really mean 42, because that would be well pre-Gopher?

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@blogdiva @aud @FeloniousPunk

It is indeed great and opened my eyes to some music I would not have checked out). I love that the album starts with the guitar from Long, Long, Long, easily my favourite Beatles track after all these years.