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[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.

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@darth_hideout
Damn that's a lot of data Google has slurped up on you.
@blogdiva

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@blogdiva It's 1991. I am in London, England and someone is showing me how to download porn from an ftp site in the USA.

It's 2000 and I'm writing an implementation of RTP and RTSP. Someone is showing me how you can use it to stream porn.

It's 2026 and someone is showing me how to hook up an MCP server. It doesn't serve up porn. It's connected to Jira.

[holsta@mastodon.art]

@blogdiva My teacher at the time clearly wanted to demonstrate the reach of the internet.

From our little classroom in Denmark we had to use gopher to find the opening hours of a particular library in Hawaii, and a few other far away places.

Later came some newfangled things called a browser and HTML.

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@blogdiva

I guess it depends what "online" means. From 1986, I was using the IBM internal VM/CMS mail tools and fora - I've been racking my brain trying to remember what they were called, but they were shared discussion threads using XEDIT as a client.

As for something actually internet-adjacent, I was using FTP, Gopher and Lynx in 1992 and then Mosaic.

But that's only 34 years. Did you really mean 42, because that would be well pre-Gopher?

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@blogdiva @aud @FeloniousPunk

It is indeed great and opened my eyes to some music I would not have checked out). I love that the album starts with the guitar from Long, Long, Long, easily my favourite Beatles track after all these years.

[johnzajac@dice.camp]

@blogdiva

AOL 2.6 on a 14.4 modem

[sassitina@autistics.life]

@blogdiva Continuously since ARPAnet so it probably doesn´t count.

Used ftp to the wsmr.mil software archives and the various sunsites.

Quite some time before Canter & Siegel.

[clippersncrows@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva 33+ years. AOL, USENET, and WWW (mostly at school at first)

[acsawdey@fosstodon.org]

@blogdiva I was on PLATO in the early 80’s, had email (ihnp4!uiucuxc!merlin!sawdey) mid 80’s via uucp on a Unix system. Maybe around 1987 connected two Unix systems with thinnet but it was 192.x.x.x so not really internet

[affekt@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva @JoBlakely same, I got it off a CD that came in the back of a book about the Internet. prior to that it was gopher in the public library. and prior to that it was BBSs. I guess I was first online in the early 90s or maybe late 80s but I don't have the best memory. basically my entire life. somehow my mom did something right and we always had some kind of computer in the house even though we grew up dirt poor and on welfare.

[eub@ohai.social]

@mlrife remember how Mosaic didn't support HTML tables with proportional-width fonts? But there was no Netscape for the DECstation 3100 in the late 90s so there I was

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@blogdiva Yay, a fellow Before Timer! I wrote and ran my own BBS on an Apple //e in Singapore in the early 1980s.

My first “Internet” access was BITNET around the same time.

[ozdreaming@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva mists of time... I got hooked on BBSes when I met (age 14?) a sysop from the Dorsai Embassy, and volunteered to manage the Mac software uploads. That was in the mid-80s, and they were a special group of nerds -- some of the first people to offer AIDS information online (at least on the east coast), along with hosting files and forums for many other groups. And they ran a weekly soup kitchen (well, chicken & potatoes) out of Jack's loft in Soho, until it burned and the servers moved to an anodyne basement in LIC.

Then in college ca 1990, I got hooked on bitnet relay, usenet, SunOs 4, gopher, and the rest is more recent history...

[koushiniku@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva I’ve put stuff on gopher! Just before its demise in the early 90s. No idea if anyone actually saw it. Later, we ran the Georgia Extension Forestry web server under the desk. Prior to university, dialup was an expensive long distance call, so I rarely used it.

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@blogdiva @aud @FeloniousPunk I still listen to the grey album regularly.