IN OTHER NEWS

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva email with dad in the uucp days of the early 80s. It was absolutely magical that he received email in a mere two hours after I sent it and I didn't have to pay long distance phone bills to actually talk.

[apples_and_pears@mastodon.world]

@blogdiva Internet: Gopher, Archie, Usenet, FidoNet.

Networks other than Internet: Teletype, TWX, dedicated data line, and DECNET.

There are still a few gopher servers in service and BBS is having a renaissance.

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@blogdiva I have that. I once found a stash of recordings of vintage beatbox and rap battles on an FTP server in France. I still have them. That famous rap battle between Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee is in there.

[cyanautik@infosec.exchange]

@FeloniousPunk
@blogdiva

we printed the list of ftp sites on high-speed line printers with greenbar and then made handwritten annotations.

that sound...

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@cyanautik @blogdiva KrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@blogdiva nntp mainly in those days. At some point in the late 80s the university I was at installed a Unix operating system.

[rlonstein@social.stonetools.tech]

@blogdiva 300/1200 baud dial-up to a local university for BITnet, BBS-es, daemon-dialing, tymnet, phreaking. Whitney Houston, The Bangles, The Pet Shop Boys, and Madonna were on the radio.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@blogdiva It was either SMTP or NNTP, forget which I used first.

But it was all via UUCP!

[rusty_shackleford@colorlessgreenvoid.com]

@blogdiva
Http like 99% of the population you fucking protocol hipster lol

[pinskia@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva slip

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@blogdiva Pre www, I had my first .edu email address in 1989, so SMTP 37 or so years ago? Also pretty sure I used finger & telnet a bunch around the same time. No Gopher, but we were using NCSA Mosaic for HTTP to the real live www by 1991 or 1992, before it was officially released...

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@blogdiva I first got online in 1993 and while I definitely remember Gopher, I didn't actually use it that much. Telnet, FTP, Usenet, and console web browsing with lynx were my first taste of the Internet

[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!!!