Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk

[drhyde@fosstodon.org]

@th alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove got taken over by a weirdo who, along with his sock puppets, is now the only person there. But the community lives on elsewhere.

[poetaster@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@th I was very attentive to alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb but never had the nerve to adverbise the fact.

[bartholin@fops.cloud]

@th @Cadbury_Moose >alt.amazon-women.admirers

[th@social.v.st]

It seems like putting your IBM 701C Thinkpad in a full size briefcase defeats the purpose of the amazing butterfly keyboard

[mancube@pnw.zone]

@GyrosGeier
i forgot how obsessesed the early internet was with barney
@th @cstross

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@th No, it's right there! Now your briefcase can accommodate a external floppy disk too.

[nicksalt@mas.to]

@th alt.sex.bears.pickanick.pickanick.basket

[leah@blahaj.social]

@th alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@bartholin @th

alt.sex.sheep.baa.baa.baa.moo

[th@social.v.st]

Remember when personal electronics looked cool and slightly dangerous?

[artbikes@mastodon.social]

@th those were the days.

[dymaxion@infosec.exchange]

@th
Oh, I hadn't seen that before. It's beautiful!

[idlestate@toot.cat]

@th

Very Patrick Nagel

[bartholin@fops.cloud]

@th and Tom Cruise had a 230 MB floppy!

[th@social.v.st]

@dymaxion I don't know if it's real or just a prop from Johnny mnemonic's retro future of 2021

[mschfr@mastodon.social]

@th Is that a CD Player?

[dymaxion@infosec.exchange]

@th
I don't either but it's wonderful design work either way

[alice@soc.klan5.am]

@th@social.v.st i was there. it was glorious. technically still is!

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@th I thought this was a micro cutoff saw for a moment

[7666@comp.lain.la]

@bartholin @th surprisingly not a zip disquette