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

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  • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

    geospacedman@mastodon.socialG This user is from outside of this forum
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    @kibcol1049 I'm so old I remember when the internet was in black and white and they played an mp3 of the national anthem before it shut down every night.

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    • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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      @kibcol1049

      I'm so old, I remember when the internet didn't have dating sites, and you could meet people online, and then afk, and date, and get married, and later get divorced, and regret it, and pine away for them for decades while your family force medicated you to cure you of love.

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      • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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        @kibcol1049 To be fair, we did have punch the monkey, bonzai buddy, etc etc back in the day. But they were so much less obnoxious than the total takeovers of our browsers and tracking of our toilet usage going on now...

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        • geospacedman@mastodon.socialG geospacedman@mastodon.social

          @kibcol1049 I'm so old I remember when the internet was in black and white and they played an mp3 of the national anthem before it shut down every night.

          kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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          @geospacedman And everyone sang along, saluted and stood to attention! πŸ˜‚

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          • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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            @johnnyvibrant Yes and the page turned over before you could write the details down and you had to sit through the other 400 pages before that one came back again!

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            • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

              @johnnyvibrant Yes and the page turned over before you could write the details down and you had to sit through the other 400 pages before that one came back again!

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              @kibcol1049 @johnnyvibrant
              God, yes! It was quicker to go down town and book at a travel agent on the High Street!

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              • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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                @kibcol1049 I can remember that dumb phone was a thing & now even ipon & android is nothing impressive

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                • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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                  @kibcol1049
                  I remember when Google came along and made Magellan, LookSmart, AltaVista and Yahoo redundant almost overnight. I used Dogpile to submit the same search string to multiple databases simultaneously, then you could continue with the one that looked most promising.
                  And Google was just a page with a search box. Nothing else.

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                  • gokushrm@mastodon.socialG gokushrm@mastodon.social

                    @kibcol1049 I can remember that dumb phone was a thing & now even ipon & android is nothing impressive

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                    @GOKUSHRM @kibcol1049 And the smaller the phone, the more impressive it was.

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                    • quantumaspect@mastodon.socialQ quantumaspect@mastodon.social

                      @GOKUSHRM @kibcol1049 And the smaller the phone, the more impressive it was.

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                      @QuantumAspect @kibcol1049 πŸ’― %True

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                      • themnwolf@furry.engineerT This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 MOD files went hard tho, if you had a tracker to play them.

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                          @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

                          *We* had to make do with a live orchestra in the corner of our sitting room.

                          πŸ™ƒ

                          Tip of the hat (or should I say "Drop of a hat"?) to Flanders and Swann

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                          • thelancashireman@hostux.socialT thelancashireman@hostux.social

                            @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

                            *We* had to make do with a live orchestra in the corner of our sitting room.

                            πŸ™ƒ

                            Tip of the hat (or should I say "Drop of a hat"?) to Flanders and Swann

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                            @TheLancashireman @stuartl @kibcol1049 I should probably credit Hugh from the Armando Iannucci show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ15EdEOncc

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                              @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

                              Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.
                              🀣

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                              • thelancashireman@hostux.socialT thelancashireman@hostux.social

                                @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

                                *We* had to make do with a live orchestra in the corner of our sitting room.

                                πŸ™ƒ

                                Tip of the hat (or should I say "Drop of a hat"?) to Flanders and Swann

                                kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @TheLancashireman @stuartl @geospacedman πŸ˜‚

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                                • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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                                  @kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .

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                                  • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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                                    @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!

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                                    • themnwolf@furry.engineerT themnwolf@furry.engineer

                                      @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 MOD files went hard tho, if you had a tracker to play them.

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                                      @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.

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                                      • kibcol1049@mstdn.socialK kibcol1049@mstdn.social

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

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                                        @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.

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                                        • uplategeek@bitbang.socialU 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.

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                                          @UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 😒

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