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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva My fist proper *internet* exposure was ftp from a "door" on a dial-up BBS, which in turn dialled in to something internet-connected. 1987 or 1988 ? Discussion-groups on the BBSes I frequented sure felt a lot like what we have here on the fedi, except it was in a text-window. On a hand-me-down 300 baud modem at first, 1985-ish. By 1993 when NCSA-Mosaic came out, I was doing informatics. It was like "hey, pretty neat" , not "this is history in the making" .
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@blogdiva An uncle with a room full of computers and printers and whatnot got me onto the UManitoba mainframe in the early 80s, played Adventure.
Put up my first BBS in 1987, days after getting my first modem. Ok not that soon, needed to sort out that second phone line. But it was believed this was assuring me a bright future, so they got it for me.
Got back on the Internet round 92, by then UoM had a dialup service available at $1/hr, which I promptly racked up hundreds, then thousands, of hours on, while no billing requests ever came, to this day. So far as we know, nobody ever received a request to pay for their hours.
First mersh ISP showed up round 94 and I was among the first customers.
@jpaskaruk second phone line? Madness! We put up with daily refresh rates for overnight transfers! @blogdiva
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva > telnet 199.199.122.9:8000
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@TeflonTrout was forced into AOL after they bought up Compuserve. those were the days.
@blogdiva @TeflonTrout Compuserve was too expensive -- my dad cancelled it and got GEnie instead. Which still had some cool stuff, e.g. JMS posting about Babylon 5 ... but by that time I was already hooked on Usenet.
(Many of JMS' posts from the early 90s are archived at https://jmsnews.com/messages/archive).
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@jpaskaruk second phone line? Madness! We put up with daily refresh rates for overnight transfers! @blogdiva
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
Pretty much gopher here too.
I had to dial into a VAX, and all I could do was telnet to other sites. So I would telnet to a "gopher site" (really a gopher client that was publicly available via telnet) to browse the internet. I didn't have ftp access, and many gopher sites didn't have sz installed, but boombox . micro . umn . edu was one of the few, and through that I was able to download FreeBSD and other stuff.
Shortly after that, I found slirp and a local free net provided free shell and so I used that.
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Me, too, them plus the WELL. It The internet was better then. There weren't as many assholes.
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
I am <holds fingers within 1 mm of each other> *this* close to starting a new personal site served entirely and only on gopher
what a cool technology it was
Felt like such magic
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I am <holds fingers within 1 mm of each other> *this* close to starting a new personal site served entirely and only on gopher
what a cool technology it was
Felt like such magic
Have you seen this attempt at a modern successor to gopher?
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva I registered one of the first .com DNS names (datacube.com) and ran USENET uucp forwarders. Started an ISP (InterNex) in 1993 pioneering ISDN high speed access
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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva I built a blue box to so I could talk to friends in other countries. I used it on pay phones. Remember pay phones?
My first modem had a spot where you hung the receiver of your phone. I was on arpa/ darpa nets when there were only mainframes, I launched a dial-in isp in the mid 80s, that was shut by a search warrant taking servers that I’ve still never gotten back and it’s been over 40 years, and was one of the first 500 sites on the www. I had a business card with the title Web Mistress. I’m an old. 
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Have you seen this attempt at a modern successor to gopher?
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@blogdiva @TeflonTrout Compuserve was too expensive -- my dad cancelled it and got GEnie instead. Which still had some cool stuff, e.g. JMS posting about Babylon 5 ... but by that time I was already hooked on Usenet.
(Many of JMS' posts from the early 90s are archived at https://jmsnews.com/messages/archive).
@ozdreaming @blogdiva @TeflonTrout remember when JMS could sometimes be found on the specially moderated "Babylon 5" Usenet group? Gawd were those the days. I feel like they prefigured much that was to follow (e.g. toxic Steven Universe fandom)
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Pretty much gopher here too.
I had to dial into a VAX, and all I could do was telnet to other sites. So I would telnet to a "gopher site" (really a gopher client that was publicly available via telnet) to browse the internet. I didn't have ftp access, and many gopher sites didn't have sz installed, but boombox . micro . umn . edu was one of the few, and through that I was able to download FreeBSD and other stuff.
Shortly after that, I found slirp and a local free net provided free shell and so I used that.
@encthenet @blogdiva oh wow slirp I'd forgotten about fiddling around with that, and other tricks to run TCP/IP applications via a shell account
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Pretty much gopher here too.
I had to dial into a VAX, and all I could do was telnet to other sites. So I would telnet to a "gopher site" (really a gopher client that was publicly available via telnet) to browse the internet. I didn't have ftp access, and many gopher sites didn't have sz installed, but boombox . micro . umn . edu was one of the few, and through that I was able to download FreeBSD and other stuff.
Shortly after that, I found slirp and a local free net provided free shell and so I used that.
@encthenet @blogdiva yall
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IN OTHER NEWS
i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.
which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?
@blogdiva for me, BBS’s on dialup circa 1986.
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