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[skleefeld@retro.pizza]

@blogdiva Got my first 300 baud modem in 1985/86. Mostly used for logging into hyper-local BBSes. (One of them was actually run by a friend of mine who lived maybe 2-3 miles away.) The largest forum I visited back then was the Sierra Entertainment BBS, looking for game hints and such. That didn't last long, though, because that was a long-distance call to California and there were a couple of pricey phone bills that came in shortly afterwards.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva I was another BITNET user. For a year in 1990. Then we got on the Internet.

In 1995 i was in grad school and, coincidentally, my dad shared the apartment with me. One day i came home to show him a “web page.” I had made my own homepage with my photo, CS work I was doing, etc.

His asked “why would anyone want to read about YOU??” and that’s pretty much where his interest ended.

Thanks, dad.

[nirak@carhenge.club]

@blogdiva telnet to search the library catalog from home

[kims@mas.to]

@blogdiva
Remember the internet gopher hunt?

Anyway, my first husband proposed to me using the unix 'write' command

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social we had Prodigy when I was a kid, buuuuut I don't think it was connected to the internet at the time. So I don't know if it counts

I'm sure I racked a hell of a phone bill up playing Mad Maze, though...

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@darth_hideout *SCREAMING*

[montaagge@kolektiva.social]

@darth_hideout @blogdiva and yet its still a critical matter that I have to bring to your attention that actually your gmail account only has several gigs of storage left and will you please buy some more in case you get another 20 years worth of emails

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social on a related yet not related note, I'm now just going "NYEAH NYA NYA YA YA YA YA NYA YAAAAA YEAAAAAAH" because obviously I now have The Prodigy's Firestarter in my head.

twisted firestarter!!!

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party AH!!!!

THE GREY ALBUM!

The reason my "growing up in Utah" self heard Jay-Z! And also the reason I can recite all of 99 Problems!

and it wasn't until we did private karaoke at a friend's house that my hispanic spouse "let me" do 99 Problems... and figure out WHY my "growing up in Utah, lily white" self SHOULD NOT do 99 Problems at karaoke

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party needless to say I got about, uh, halfway through it before I just started going, "... ooooooooohhhhh" instead of singing.

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@blogdiva #BBS guy here. Probably Gopher as well for what we'd now call 'the Internet'.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@aud LOL cant remember if we ever had that. compuserve, on the other hand, was my first GUI

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social ... ooooh, I just pulled up the video for this, and huuuuuh, how did I not notice he was wearing a "stars and stripes" sweater/jumper before

yeaaaaaah

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party BUT, I did do Helter Skelter a few weeks later, there, SO

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@aud @FeloniousPunk TBH prefer it to both of the originals. Dangermouse’s 99 problems is the remix to end all remixes.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party IT'S SO GOOD. I don't think I have a copy, actually, anymore, which is something I should remedy.

I kind of feel spoiled because that album was one of my first exposure to remixes, so a lot of other "remixes" just feel like... oh, the artist sent you the individual tracks and you just... stirred em up a bit? huh. well, that's nice...

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@blogdiva

Does X.25 count?

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@blogdiva

America Online via 33.6. Not an OG, but still old

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@TeflonTrout was forced into AOL after they bought up Compuserve. those were the days.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva Hard to say. I was active on BBS's in the early '80s. That would have been XModem, I spoze, in terms of protocol, and DEC VT100 emulation from Pro*Comm.