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@blogdiva Started via BBSes, so the first large network I was on was FidoNet - however, the same BBS also offered internet email but more importantly Usenet. FTP and gopher followed once I got to college.
@jf_718 can’t imagine life without Usenet tbh. it’s how i got news about what was happening back home because gringo media never reported on us and we ricans are friggin everywhere
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva uucp pulling Usenet overnight to my home minix system circa 1986. Even then I had to pick and choose which parts of the hierarchy to drop. Time flies.
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@blogdiva hace un rato.
@matuzalem porque matuzalem eres
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@grumble209 @blogdiva
WE ARE POSIX.
WE WILL ADD YOU TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva
Would have been around 1995; local BBSes, QWK mail, and Fidonet. -
@blogdiva fave anecdote:
I stole System of a Down's "Steal this album" via IRC and the channel admin let me jump the queue to do it. Still took all night. -
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva 34 years later this year, I think. I poked around briefly on some BBSs and a text-based online multi-player game, but then when I discovered Usenet I got hooked.
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@blogdiva 34 years later this year, I think. I poked around briefly on some BBSs and a text-based online multi-player game, but then when I discovered Usenet I got hooked.
@blogdiva
TIN and TRN on a dos box 8088 clone I'd mostly been using as a word processor then a friend gifted me a used dial-up modem. -
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@blogdiva
TIN and TRN on a dos box 8088 clone I'd mostly been using as a word processor then a friend gifted me a used dial-up modem.Clearing out my old files a few years ago, I found this instruction sheet for accessing New Orleans Public Library online in 1994. I scanned it before adding the paper to recycling.
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MOSAIC was my first browser
I wish I could still access some sites on LYNX.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva We never had a modem for the C=64 we had when I was in elementary/high school. At college, I used a lot of telnet (ahhh, BBSes) and Lynx in the computer labs.
When I got my first PC I used FTP to download Spyglass, which I then used to download Netscape. I remember telling that to my boss and her looking at me like I'd just sprouted second head.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
SMTP (e-mail) in 1985 (41 yrs)
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva I remember gopher!
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva
Protocol? Going back that far it was all Hayes Standard, 300 BAUD kids! FIDO NET FTW! -
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva Usenet using UUCP over hand-soldered RS232 cable to 300 baud modem calling UC Santa Cruz every night at 2 am
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva Gopher, Archie and Usenet back in '92. I also remember updating Mosaic 1.0 to 1.1 on my DECstation, so I guess HTTP too.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
The first large-scale network I used was BITNET in 1988. So, not even “the Internet” yet, to be pedantic. Email and a rough BITNET equivalent of IRC were available immediately; Usenet newsgroups had to wait a year or two until I got an account on the system that was plugged into the “actual” Internet.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
I…uh…borrowed an account from a university in southeast Texas around 1992 and telnet’d all over the damn place for months before I was caught.
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@geolaw gopher was really simple and elegant. we had better metadata for documents back in the day. it was called the Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress archiving standards.
