IN OTHER NEWS

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva email with dad in the uucp days of the early 80s. It was absolutely magical that he received email in a mere two hours after I sent it and I didn't have to pay long distance phone bills to actually talk.

[apples_and_pears@mastodon.world]

@blogdiva Internet: Gopher, Archie, Usenet, FidoNet.

Networks other than Internet: Teletype, TWX, dedicated data line, and DECNET.

There are still a few gopher servers in service and BBS is having a renaissance.

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@blogdiva I have that. I once found a stash of recordings of vintage beatbox and rap battles on an FTP server in France. I still have them. That famous rap battle between Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee is in there.

[cyanautik@infosec.exchange]

@FeloniousPunk
@blogdiva

we printed the list of ftp sites on high-speed line printers with greenbar and then made handwritten annotations.

that sound...

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@cyanautik @blogdiva KrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@blogdiva nntp mainly in those days. At some point in the late 80s the university I was at installed a Unix operating system.

[rlonstein@social.stonetools.tech]

@blogdiva 300/1200 baud dial-up to a local university for BITnet, BBS-es, daemon-dialing, tymnet, phreaking. Whitney Houston, The Bangles, The Pet Shop Boys, and Madonna were on the radio.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@blogdiva It was either SMTP or NNTP, forget which I used first.

But it was all via UUCP!

[rusty_shackleford@colorlessgreenvoid.com]

@blogdiva
Http like 99% of the population you fucking protocol hipster lol

[pinskia@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva slip

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@blogdiva Pre www, I had my first .edu email address in 1989, so SMTP 37 or so years ago? Also pretty sure I used finger & telnet a bunch around the same time. No Gopher, but we were using NCSA Mosaic for HTTP to the real live www by 1991 or 1992, before it was officially released...

[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