• thewebroach@lemmy.world
    19·
    4 months ago

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    Social media used to be about socializing and communicating. These days its all drivel that has bren productized into a vehicle where streaming addictive brain rot keeps the advertisements flowing and lowers self esteem.

    Gen Z may have adopted the internet but it was born of us- AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC servers, news groups… all on a dial-up modem. The good old days where there wasnt enough bandwidth for all the ads of today, and the most intrusive ads were a 468x60 pixel banner at the top or bottom of the netscape page

  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
    172·
    4 months ago

    Okay, I get this may be off-topic, but “It is okay to bully–”, no, it’s not okay to bully anyone. What is passing by these people’s minds?

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    4 months ago

    I am one of the few people, it seems, that can not for the life of me remember my ICQ number… but I was there, using it.

    Anyone remember Trillian? Having your Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Messenger, etc all in one program…

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.

  • Abbysimons@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 months ago

    Honestly, the people who were around in the early internet days helped build the online world we all use now. A little respect for the veterans of dial-up isn’t a bad thing. 😄

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
      8·
      4 months ago

      Back in our day, the Internet yelled at you when connecting to it. I think that conditioning helped us brace for what’s to come, and we should bring that feature back.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        Look, instant messages were instant, but getting the computer to boot up, connecting to the Internet and logging in were not.

        I’m on the younger end but I remember so Many people having routines like prep the coffee machine the night before, when the alarm went off you would get up youd hit the power button on the computer, turn on the coffee machine, then hop in the shower. When you got out of the shower you would log in, and go grab a cup of coffee, then come back and connect to the Internet. Drink your coffee and you could check the 2 items and emails you needed before running out the door

  • glorkon@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 months ago

    My ICQ was 1428816.

    And when young people ask me if I ever play multi-player games… my dude, I played the first one. Midimaze on Atari ST.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I remember my CompuServe id. I remember the sequence to kick the operator off a call and jump into AT&T’s switching network for the free calls. A 300 baud modem was the shit in 85. Most these fetuses have no idea how anything works and what I used to do to get a connection would make their mind explode.

  • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin on a team managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB of RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    66618055 I kept putting off getting on. I was online on the CompuServe days before Prodigy or AOL. I had three different places to access the internet back in 1992. My catchphrase is “I am from the internet. I’m here to help.” I deeply miss Usenet.