I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Oooh! Morse code!

I see we've skipped over the two-tin-cans-and-a-piece-of-string phase of the internet.

@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 I'm old enough to remember life without being connected all the fucking time.

@TheLancashireman You could afford STRING? LUXURY!! @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.

@macacator @UpLateGeek @kibcol1049

It's a bad move to be connected during your fucking time. You never know who might be watching or listening in.

@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.

@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.

@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together

@John_Loader @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
In my day we dreamt of having one rock.
If we were lucky dad would come home at the end of a week of triple shifts & hand us the dust left over from the tiny bit of gravel his boss would give him at the start of the week.

@AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you mean teletypes (i.e /dev/tty), but yes. I am not that old. I have never used punch card or tape either.

@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .

I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.

@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Canter & Siegel. I remember the Usenet backlash like it was yesterday.

@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049

I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol

@tantramar @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049

I'll just leave this here ...
https://sattlers.org/mickey/culture/humor/items/Geekish/montyPythonDeadServers.html

@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Wasn't there a time when the internet was a line printer? Before my time, but I recall whispers from the founding folks.

@trouble @AncTreat5358 @geospacedman @kibcol1049

I have both programmed with punchcards, and maintained supercomputers with tape. I may be an Elder. ‍️🥳. Why I remember when we telnet into each others bbs, and we liked it!