IN OTHER NEWS

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

IN OTHER NEWS

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?

#getOffMyLawn

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@blogdiva Mine would be 33 years or so. Lots of gopher and Usenet in those days

[mivox@mivox.net]

@blogdiva I was a latecomer. Mid-90s, mostly web… but I do really miss Usenet. I’ll never forgive Google for what they did to either Usenet or the web.

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@blogdiva And ftp sites. Man I lived in those weird random stashes of goodies you could find in those days

[roger@mastodon.seattlematrix.org]

@blogdiva all over 56k well into the 2000s (hang up the phone! I want to use the internet!)

Web: Netscape navigator on windows 3.1

Chat: AIM

Piracy: IRC (still one of the best protocols out there IMO)

[conniptions@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva Wow. For me it was 1990, my first year at uni, sneaking into the computer room there (!) and playing with whatever I found. Gopher and Eliza over telnet, mainly, I think. So you've got six years on me.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@FeloniousPunk @blogdiva we were using bbs's in '95, so ... 31 years?

[lerxst@az.social]

@blogdiva Had BITNET email in 1985, and got an internet gateway for it (UUCP to RSCS) in 1986. First actual use of the TCP/IP protocol directly was FTPing stuff with NeXT workstations in 1988. So 40 or 38, depending on your definition.

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva
internet explorer? Maybe Netscape. Both in the mid 90s when they came out. I made a really wild website using Microsoft publisher and hotspot links. Early internet was so weird but I miss the wackiness of it. It is very commercial ‘hotel look’ standardized now.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@FeloniousPunk seeeeriously. do you know which was my last of such downloads? i kid you not, The Grey Album. that was 2003-4, at the end of that era.

The Grey Album - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

MOSAIC was my first browser

@JoBlakely

[roger@mastodon.seattlematrix.org]

@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.

[jf_718@mas.to]

@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.

[billysmith@social.coop]

@blogdiva

For computer networks, it was using BBS's via the secondary school computer lab in the early 1980's.

I didn't get to use the internet until years later.

[matuzalem@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@blogdiva hace un rato.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@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

[flux@wandering.shop]

@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.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@matuzalem porque matuzalem eres

[lerxst@az.social]

@grumble209 @blogdiva
WE ARE POSIX.
WE WILL ADD YOU TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@blogdiva
Would have been around 1995; local BBSes, QWK mail, and Fidonet.