I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
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I remember ICQ and eLists, for the latter, I ran a local furry list
@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
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Use a rubber band around a small deck.
If the deck was more than an inch thick, draw a diagonal line on one edge face so if they got scrambled you could reassemble without sobbing.
Too big for a rubber band?
There were purpose-made boxes.@nlarson830 @kibcol1049 @harrymuzz
I signed up for a community college sort of computer programming class, 'cuz I was certain computers would be a huge part of my career (correct).Looked at the shopping list for the syllabus of the COBOL class, & saw I needed to buy a box of punch cards.
Immediately dropped the class. I would've been cool with learning COBOL, but if they were still doing punchcards when I already had an XT with dual floppy drives, they were too backward.
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@harrymuzz At my first job, the computer room temperature was controlled with double door air lock to enter. The computer was huge with punch card operators typing and huge floor to ceiling reel to reel tapes. The print outs were on large sheets of paper and took several runs for all the errors to be corrected. With programmers, inputters and clerks, there were about 8 staff. Nowadays a kid of 8 or 9 could do it all and more on a smartphone and 30 times quicker! Hard to believe but true.
Under the floor is where I lurked until needed to wield the magic screwdriver.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
@NunavutBirder @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
you had sand?
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@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 When I were young we just had 2 rocks to bang together.
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lolI loved ICQ!! Anyone ever use "The Palace"? That was a fun place to go. It used avatars of your choosing/making and took place in various "palaces" built by the users. Then the 12-year-old boys took over and it became a swamp of sexual harrassment.
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
Yeah, for a while at work I'd convinced all the CC folk to use Meebo, because it incorporated AIM, but with better controls of persistent rooms. -
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 we were poor. We had only one rock to bang together
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@chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
I remember a bridge between ICQ, AIM and JABBER, lol@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049 That was initiated during the heyday of the Trillian product, right?
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@geospacedman @kibcol1049 I'm so old, I remember when the Internet was black and green...
@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.
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@bob @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049 That was initiated during the heyday of the Trillian product, right?
@AncTreat5358 @chuff @johnnyvibrant @IanDSmith @kibcol1049
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@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.
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@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.
@TheLancashireman You could afford STRING? LUXURY!! @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
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@UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 I'm old enough to remember life without being connected all the fucking time.
@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.
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@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.
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
@TheLancashireman Our dead grass was confiscated by the landlord. @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
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@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
@TheLancashireman @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman String you say? Luxury! We had it hard, we had to weave nasal snot into a fibre!
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@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.
@TheLancashireman @UpLateGeek @kibcol1049 exactly
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@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.
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@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.
@trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think you’re right.
Even though we both weren’t of that earlier time, we can appreciate the pioneer spirit that carried us to now.
