"I have usernames older than you."
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I still remember my ICQ UIN as well. it will probably the last 9 numbers I say before my death and no one will understand it.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I'm so cyber I piss neon and spit chrome. I cut my teeth in a time when you would swap floppies and underground zines. I would try to learn every machine I touched, from the C64 at my friends house because his dad was an enthusiast, to the Tandy I inherited from a dead grandfather I had never met. No modem, no wifi, no youtube tutorial, no money. Just technology that was facinating to someone who just prior had been living on a mountain reading outdated encyclopedias by kerosene lamp, and only listening to the radio for 15 minutes a day because batteries were hard to get.
A computer was science fiction still, something from the movies. The ICU message notification still can set my brain on fire with anticipation. I keep my notifications off now, because no amount of push messages or advertising will ever compare to the sound that meant the person who I could actually be myself with had arrived online.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay
As I like to phrase it: Younger ones grew up in the internet. I grew up /with/ the internet.And, since we're showing off ICQ numbers: UIN 516801 here
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"I have usernames older than you."
Amen
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay icq 492905 uhoh
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay these ipad babies need to stfu
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay This dude planning to vaporize at 40? If not, I have some bad news.
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@Natasha_Jay "On the internet, nobody knows you are 50."
@lobingera @Natasha_Jay "...until you start posting memes from 2006..."
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"I have usernames older than you."
I expect thriller_instinct is busy crying to mommy now.
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@Natasha_Jay I'm so cyber I piss neon and spit chrome. I cut my teeth in a time when you would swap floppies and underground zines. I would try to learn every machine I touched, from the C64 at my friends house because his dad was an enthusiast, to the Tandy I inherited from a dead grandfather I had never met. No modem, no wifi, no youtube tutorial, no money. Just technology that was facinating to someone who just prior had been living on a mountain reading outdated encyclopedias by kerosene lamp, and only listening to the radio for 15 minutes a day because batteries were hard to get.
A computer was science fiction still, something from the movies. The ICU message notification still can set my brain on fire with anticipation. I keep my notifications off now, because no amount of push messages or advertising will ever compare to the sound that meant the person who I could actually be myself with had arrived online.
@Glamazon @Natasha_Jay oh I FEEL that last part especially
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay oh. that ICQ number is significantly smaller than ours. impressive.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I have domains older than you.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I had a fun moment recently where someone was asking if I was old enough to be marked 18+ on a discord server, and my girlfriend pointed out I have /released software/ that's old enough to look at porn.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I have socks older than half the internet user base
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay tell that kid to get off my lawn!
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay cute little troll baby of course has Dr. House as profile pic.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay What a young whippersnapper. Mine is 2682000. I had(!) my real name on gmail, without numbers. Our email wasn't even going over TCP/IP.... *insert lengthy 'back in my day' rant*
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@Natasha_Jay
As I like to phrase it: Younger ones grew up in the internet. I grew up /with/ the internet.And, since we're showing off ICQ numbers: UIN 516801 here
@dertseha up to 1 minute ago I totally forgot about ICQ. Not sure if I can ever retrieve my handle.
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"I have usernames older than you."
@Natasha_Jay I love how this thread has just devolved into everyone sharing their six digit UINs
just going to put this here, don’t mind me:
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@Natasha_Jay tell that kid to get off my lawn!
@redsad @Natasha_Jay I should probably confess this anonymously, but I don’t have the spoons to submit it:
I actually do — literally, in reality — shake my fist and yell at the sky sometimes. It’s very cathartic. (I’m not yelling *at* the sky, mind you, but it has no choice but to look down on all this shit 24/7/365, so I know it *gets* it.)
