• Treczoks@lemmy.world
    1·
    12 minutes ago

    ICQ number? Newfangled stuff. BITNET TALK rulez. I wonder if anybody here has ever heard of BITNET…

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    I remember trying to play online quake in the 90’s, I live in new Zealand… We had dial up, my latency was around the 5s mark. I have up pretty quick.

    If I wanted to play multiplayer games, it was taking my desktop computer to a friends house, connecting them together with 10Mb BNC networking, and don’t forget the 50ohm terminators.

    A friend spent a week trying to download the original pirated version on XP, the couple of hundred meg file would get stopped for various reasons.

    I have my full name as a gmail account, I got it as soon as it possible. firstname.lastname@gmail.com

  • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    4 hours ago

    If you bought your dial-up internet from your local newspaper, there’s a pretty good chance I was doing tech support for it.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours 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.

  • glorkon@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 hours 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.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Yeah, seems there is a belief that past a certain age, you should have zero fun, be nothing but a wage slave, and die somewhere quietly, where no one will see what fate awaits you.

    Well, I happen to think minors especially should not have access to social media, or at least somehow have minor only social media.

    Prevents them interacting with predators, getting brainrotted, and most importantly: leaves us with more mature people to interact with.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I initially like the idea of a minor-siloed internet, but damn if the predators aren’t going to congregate there too (eg roblox) so I’m not out sure what the answer is

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        37 minutes ago

        Same here, but I believe that those savvy enough should be getting into the conversation, instead of sneering at the ignorant lawmakers.

        It’s a tough problem that should be handled by interdisciplinary panels, and then coded into law in a non partisan way, instead of knee jerk legislation with the only intent of getting votes.

        What we have right now is “War on drugs” shit.

        • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
          2·
          26 minutes ago

          What we have right now are fascist surveillance states leveraging both outrage against predatory tech companies and the protective instinct we feel for our children to lock down our communications network by pinning all users to a real world identity. Wheeee!

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    15·
    4 hours ago

    Adobe flash games and adobe flash videos. Beige computers. Monochrome monitors. Trackball mice. DOS. The original Doom. Newgrounds. Joe Cartoon, Killfrog, and Stickdeath. Napster and Limewire. Geocities. Forums for days. Browser games like Utopia.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      30 minutes ago

      I think you are referring to ball mice. Trackball are still in use and development, and are the preferred weapon for knowledgeable gurus, like me.

      I used to admin a small campus, where we had 3 computer rooms. Kids (college) stole the balls.

      I ended up buying a couple hundred of (then) expensive “laser” mice, because it ws cheaper than throwing away half the neutered mice each semester.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I remember ratio FTP sites

    (I also remember how to make them look like you’re uploading a lot quickly using a 14.4k modem…by uploading files full of null bytes and using the compression to your advantage.)