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@quinn It's generally weird to hear The Beatles originals as someone who didn't grow up in a Beatles house hold.
@nmo It's never too late to get a good education
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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?
@blogdiva@mastodon.social My first was the dialup service Prodigy in 90 or 91, which I believe used its own protocol (it definitely used its own image formats). Technically only a small slice of it was the internet (just email, iirc), but I used that bit, so it counts.
I remember being envious of CompuServe users because they had the "cb simulator" (early text-only chatrooms).
There was a brief period in the 90s where having a 7-letter last name was, well, not "cool", exactly, but maybe "convenient in a neat way". So many usernames had a technical cap at 8 characters and "first initial last name" was such a common way for organizations to assign usernames.
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@nmo It's never too late to get a good education
@nmo (I'm very much a believer in the lucky 10,000 principle!)
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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?
@blogdiva gopher is so simple, so beautiful…
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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?
ftp from some universities was my first experience on the "internet". that and usenet over uucp.
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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?
@blogdiva Ooh, that is quite a long time. I remember writing fortran code for signal processing and runnig it on a remote machine at another university, in 1986. Does that count? I don't remember how I did it, though.
But there was probably nothing else until the early nineties, when I started using gopher and (I think) something based on email to get Daubechies early papers on wavelets. -
@nmo It's never too late to get a good education
@quinn It's totally just first association at this point. There is a Stooges song that I first heard sampled that hits me the same way.
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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?
@blogdiva I was online before the internet. Can’t tell what the 300 baud mode. Used as a protocol. Something like „8N1“. 8 bit, no parity, 1 error bit.
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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?
@blogdiva My fist proper *internet* exposure was ftp from a "door" on a dial-up BBS, which in turn dialled in to something internet-connected. 1987 or 1988 ? Discussion-groups on the BBSes I frequented sure felt a lot like what we have here on the fedi, except it was in a text-window. On a hand-me-down 300 baud modem at first, 1985-ish. By 1993 when NCSA-Mosaic came out, I was doing informatics. It was like "hey, pretty neat" , not "this is history in the making" .
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@blogdiva An uncle with a room full of computers and printers and whatnot got me onto the UManitoba mainframe in the early 80s, played Adventure.
Put up my first BBS in 1987, days after getting my first modem. Ok not that soon, needed to sort out that second phone line. But it was believed this was assuring me a bright future, so they got it for me.
Got back on the Internet round 92, by then UoM had a dialup service available at $1/hr, which I promptly racked up hundreds, then thousands, of hours on, while no billing requests ever came, to this day. So far as we know, nobody ever received a request to pay for their hours.
First mersh ISP showed up round 94 and I was among the first customers.
@jpaskaruk second phone line? Madness! We put up with daily refresh rates for overnight transfers! @blogdiva
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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?
@blogdiva > telnet 199.199.122.9:8000
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