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 .
@harrymuzz @kibcol1049 80 or 96-column?
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I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
@kibcol1049 And then Juno came along to prove how much of a bastard free services can be.
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
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@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.
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I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list
@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol -
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.@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.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lolI loved ICQ!! Anyone ever use "The Palace"? That was a fun place to go. It used avatars of your choosing/making and took place in various "palaces" built by the users. Then the 12-year-old boys took over and it became a swamp of sexual harrassment.
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
Yeah, for a while at work I'd convinced all the CC folk to use Meebo, because it incorporated AIM, but with better controls of persistent rooms. -
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049 That was initiated during the heyday of the Trillian product, right?
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