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@blogdiva 34 years later this year, I think. I poked around briefly on some BBSs and a text-based online multi-player game, but then when I discovered Usenet I got hooked.
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TIN and TRN on a dos box 8088 clone I'd mostly been using as a word processor then a friend gifted me a used dial-up modem. -
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TIN and TRN on a dos box 8088 clone I'd mostly been using as a word processor then a friend gifted me a used dial-up modem.Clearing out my old files a few years ago, I found this instruction sheet for accessing New Orleans Public Library online in 1994. I scanned it before adding the paper to recycling.
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MOSAIC was my first browser
I wish I could still access some sites on LYNX.
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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 We never had a modem for the C=64 we had when I was in elementary/high school. At college, I used a lot of telnet (ahhh, BBSes) and Lynx in the computer labs.
When I got my first PC I used FTP to download Spyglass, which I then used to download Netscape. I remember telling that to my boss and her looking at me like I'd just sprouted second head.
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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?
SMTP (e-mail) in 1985 (41 yrs)
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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 remember gopher!
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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?
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Protocol? Going back that far it was all Hayes Standard, 300 BAUD kids! FIDO NET FTW! -
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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 Usenet using UUCP over hand-soldered RS232 cable to 300 baud modem calling UC Santa Cruz every night at 2 am
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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, Archie and Usenet back in '92. I also remember updating Mosaic 1.0 to 1.1 on my DECstation, so I guess HTTP too.
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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?
The first large-scale network I used was BITNET in 1988. So, not even “the Internet” yet, to be pedantic. Email and a rough BITNET equivalent of IRC were available immediately; Usenet newsgroups had to wait a year or two until I got an account on the system that was plugged into the “actual” Internet.
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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?
I…uh…borrowed an account from a university in southeast Texas around 1992 and telnet’d all over the damn place for months before I was caught.
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@geolaw gopher was really simple and elegant. we had better metadata for documents back in the day. it was called the Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress archiving standards.
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@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
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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?
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Clearing out my old files a few years ago, I found this instruction sheet for accessing New Orleans Public Library online in 1994. I scanned it before adding the paper to recycling.
Youngsters: Dial-up era internet wasn't just slower, it was full of esoteric protocols one needed to learn how to navigate.
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SMTP (e-mail) in 1985 (41 yrs)
My gmail account is 21 (old enough to drink).
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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 email with dad in the uucp days of the early 80s. It was absolutely magical that he received email in a mere two hours after I sent it and I didn't have to pay long distance phone bills to actually talk.
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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 Internet: Gopher, Archie, Usenet, FidoNet.
Networks other than Internet: Teletype, TWX, dedicated data line, and DECNET.
There are still a few gopher servers in service and BBS is having a renaissance.
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@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.
@blogdiva I have that. I once found a stash of recordings of vintage beatbox and rap battles on an FTP server in France. I still have them. That famous rap battle between Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee is in there.
