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[jmelesky@tinylad.social]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social My first was the dialup service Prodigy in 90 or 91, which I believe used its own protocol (it definitely used its own image formats). Technically only a small slice of it was the internet (just email, iirc), but I used that bit, so it counts.

I remember being envious of CompuServe users because they had the "cb simulator" (early text-only chatrooms).

There was a brief period in the 90s where having a 7-letter last name was, well, not "cool", exactly, but maybe "convenient in a neat way". So many usernames had a technical cap at 8 characters and "first initial last name" was such a common way for organizations to assign usernames.

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@nmo (I'm very much a believer in the lucky 10,000 principle!)

[revndm@queer.cool]

@blogdiva gopher is so simple, so beautiful…

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva

ftp from some universities was my first experience on the "internet". that and usenet over uucp.

[ppscrv@mathstodon.xyz]

@blogdiva Ooh, that is quite a long time. I remember writing fortran code for signal processing and runnig it on a remote machine at another university, in 1986. Does that count? I don't remember how I did it, though.
But there was probably nothing else until the early nineties, when I started using gopher and (I think) something based on email to get Daubechies early papers on wavelets.

[nmo@tilde.zone]

@quinn It's totally just first association at this point. There is a Stooges song that I first heard sampled that hits me the same way.

[chaos0815@phpc.social]

@blogdiva I was online before the internet. Can’t tell what the 300 baud mode. Used as a protocol. Something like „8N1“. 8 bit, no parity, 1 error bit.

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva My fist proper *internet* exposure was ftp from a "door" on a dial-up BBS, which in turn dialled in to something internet-connected. 1987 or 1988 ? Discussion-groups on the BBSes I frequented sure felt a lot like what we have here on the fedi, except it was in a text-window. On a hand-me-down 300 baud modem at first, 1985-ish. By 1993 when NCSA-Mosaic came out, I was doing informatics. It was like "hey, pretty neat" , not "this is history in the making" .

[flux@wandering.shop]

@jpaskaruk second phone line? Madness! We put up with daily refresh rates for overnight transfers! @blogdiva

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@blogdiva > telnet 199.199.122.9:8000