I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@kibcol1049

I remember when the Web was new. I remember hoping that it wouldn't take off, because I had to pay for dialup by the minute, whereas, before the Web, I could just log in, collect email and news, send my messages and hang up again, all within a minute or so. Much cheaper!

[andrew@social.hodgson.io]

@kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yep for example I used an Archimedes to browse the Internet in the early days and midi files weren't a thing on that platform, but we did have lots of repositories of tracker music.

[uplategeek@bitbang.social]

@kibcol1049 I’m so old I remember when they added iframes to HTML. I remember thinking the web was really starting to go downhill. Those were such innocent times.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049

[andrew@social.hodgson.io]

@FreakyFwoof @kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yeah shame they didn't have a proper screen reader for the Archimedes. It didn't really work without a mouse to be honest.

[macacator@mastodon.social]

@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 I'm old enough to remember life without being connected all the fucking time.

[kibcol1049@mstdn.social]

@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.

[nlarson830@techhub.social]

@kibcol1049 @harrymuzz

Use a rubber band around a small deck.

If the deck was more than an inch thick, draw a diagonal line on one edge face so if they got scrambled you could reassemble without sobbing.

Too big for a rubber band?
There were purpose-made boxes.

[trouble@masto.ai]

@geospacedman @kibcol1049 I'm so old, I remember when the Internet was black and green...

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 The cultist was before the lawyers, if I recall.

One of those two lawyers is dead now. That is a pity.

(That it's only one of them, I mean.)

[chuff@bark.wolp.chat]

I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@harrymuzz @kibcol1049 80 or 96-column?

[phaysis@mastodon.coffee]

@kibcol1049 And then Juno came along to prove how much of a bastard free services can be.

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.

[nunavutbirder@mas.to]

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049

I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol

[kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social]

@nlarson830 @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz
I signed up for a community college sort of computer programming class, 'cuz I was certain computers would be a huge part of my career (correct).

Looked at the shopping list for the syllabus of the COBOL class, & saw I needed to buy a box of punch cards.

Immediately dropped the class. I would've been cool with learning COBOL, but if they were still doing punchcards when I already had an XT with dual floppy drives, they were too backward.

[captain_jack_sparrow@mastodon.world]

@NunavutBirder @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

you had sand?

[john_loader@ohai.social]

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together