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@InvaderXan calling me tf out with these

@elfi 😂

@InvaderXan @claudiom now I feel old

@InvaderXan if we're 40% ancient does that mean we're internet middle-aged?

@starfall Ehh, sure, why not? 😂

@InvaderXan ah, the old information supercliche - I do remember an advert using this term, unironically Netscape. Chain emails. Modems. So I guess I'm a bit ancient :)

@InvaderXan @gcupc@glitch.social yet another "everything but livejournal early adopter" here, though I barely ever used IRC.

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@InvaderXan Ten out of fifteen ain't bad, I don't think.

@InvaderXan I think I got 14/15 ... I never registered with LiveJournal.

@InvaderXan I remember when I just had to hide from my e-mail every day, instead of my e-mail, my Telegram, my birdsite notifications, my Mastodon notifications, my WordPress replies, my LiveJournal replies, my Dreamwidth replies, my LinkedIn notifications, and while I never joined Facebook I'd be hiding from *that* too.

@InvaderXan hmm... I maintained a phpbb forum well into the 00s... then twitter killed it good

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Yup, plus:

* Could whistle the right tones into a telephone set to get the modem on the other side to connect at least 50% of the time (at random, usually very low speeds).

* Remember ftpsearch.ntnu.no

* Used winnuke.c to kick annoying lusers off IRC (and it would work - every single time).

* Posted on Usenet (and Fidonet)

* Got mail by UUCP.

* Drilled holes in stacks of floppy disks to double their capacity.

@InvaderXan @MadestMadness it disturbs me that not only can I answer "yes" to all of these, but I may get a bonus point for having *run* a dial-up BBS. (And calling another one is what led me to furry.)

@InvaderXan Great list, yes to many of those. I remember Mosiac, gopher, Usenet, having to download a video before playing it (no streaming), ripping mp3 in realtime as the CD is playing, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Yahoo, walkthroughs of DOOM, AOL as your news source and those trial disks everywhere (save them and reuse them)! ICQ, animated gifs, 256 color images, being the first freshman class the get Ethernet in our dorms.

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1. yep
2. used a modem at 300bps (bonus: wrote custom software to upload text files to the custom thingy at the other end)
**3.* <del>I think @Harena did</del> she says "what counts as early adopter?" She got her account in 2003, LJ started in 1999...
4. It fell? I remember there were security issues, and better things came along...
5. Yep. (Never used it, tho.)
6. AltaVista was new & sleek.
7. Actually no! ...unless you count CompuServe/AOL/Prodigy (Harena, however, definitely did.)
8. still exists; never used it
9. actually no
10. I keep wanting to do something to make Harena's personal site (which was originally on Angelfire!) more usable...
11. We were both IRCops. She still has IRC running on her desktop.
12. We were making fun of that back when it was a thing -- "the information supergoatpath"
13. Maybe? They were distinctive -- but it's been awhile...
14. yyyyyepp.

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8 of 15...

@InvaderXan Point of order: I meet most of these criteria, but I can't remember "Information Superhighway" ever being used in a non-cheesy way by actual human conversations rather than marketers and news reporters. 🙂

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All of the above.

One to add:

Watch the Fish Tank on the XMosaic site.

@InvaderXan Dan
Damn I can tick every box apart from never having a livejournal account. Am I just an Internet OAP?

@InvaderXan Damn, forget bingo: I hit nearly 100%.

@InvaderXan well, I'm a yes to everything here, but I don't *feel* ancient ... even if I recall some of your minimum entry points as distinct upgrades from the previous state of affairs.

I can't imagine anyone getting nostalgic about 300 baud, really.

OK maybe a little bit.

@InvaderXan I bet you remember salt tablets

@InvaderXan 100% coverage

God dammit

@InvaderXan 14/15 apply to me. Where do I get my Internet Ancient badge?

@InvaderXan Eblas, ke vi estas interret-antikvulo, se vi

* memoras Netscape Navigator

* iam uzis modemo kun kapacito 28,8 aŭi malpli

* havis "Frua-Uzanto"-konto en Livejournal

* spektis la kreskon kaj malkreskon de PhBB

* spektis la kreskon kaj malkreskon de Napster

* uzis la TTT-on antaŭ ol kiam Google ekzistis

* iam ajn uzis pertelefona afiêjo

* memoras Gopher

* iam ajn elŝutis muzkon kiel ".mod"-dosierojn

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* memoras la tempon, kiam ĉirkaj 90% de la TTT konsistis el personaj retejo, kiuj estis "konstruataj" kaj enhavis bildojn de katojn

* memoras la tempon, kiam Yahoo estis efektive nur listegon de retejoj

* konas IRC-komandojn

* iam aŭdis iun ajn, sen ironio, uzantan la terminon "informoŝoseo"

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@InvaderXan
* povas rekoni modemojn de diversaj kapacitoj per la diversaj mampren-sonoroj

* iam ajn ricevis tian ĉen-retpoŝtojn, kia rulumigis onin per kilometraĉon da plusendaj paĝokapoj, por trovi nur "ridindegan" maldececan bildon aû ŝablonon liston, kiel tiu ĉi aktuala

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@InvaderXan i love gopher

Google was founded in 1998. By the internet calendar, this is the year 0.

Years prior to this are known as BG, or Before Google. Years afterwards are known as AV, or Anno Vendi (which probably means something like Year of Advertising in Latin).

Humans went to the moon in the year 29 BG.

The code for Mastodon was first released in the year 18 AV.

@InvaderXan I take this as a joke, and that you don't really wish to deify Google.

I am glad this offering has pleased the Internet Ancients