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

[chuff@bark.wolp.chat]

I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@harrymuzz @kibcol1049 80 or 96-column?

[phaysis@mastodon.coffee]

@kibcol1049 And then Juno came along to prove how much of a bastard free services can be.

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.

[nunavutbirder@mas.to]

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049

I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol

[kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social]

@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.

[captain_jack_sparrow@mastodon.world]

@NunavutBirder @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

you had sand?

[john_loader@ohai.social]

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together

[bette@mstdn.social]

@bob

I 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.

@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049

[kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social]

@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.

[kibcol1049@mstdn.social]

@John_Loader @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049 That was initiated during the heyday of the Trillian product, right?