IN OTHER NEWS
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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@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... -
My gmail account is 21 (old enough to drink).
@darth_hideout *SCREAMING*
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My gmail account is 21 (old enough to drink).
@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
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@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 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.
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@FeloniousPunk seeeeriously. do you know which was my last of such downloads? i kid you not, The Grey Album. that was 2003-4, at the end of that era.
@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 -
@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@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.
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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?
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@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 LOL cant remember if we ever had that. compuserve, on the other hand, was my first GUI
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@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!!!@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
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@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.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social @FeloniousPunk@beige.party BUT, I did do Helter Skelter a few weeks later, there, SO
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@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.
@aud @FeloniousPunk TBH prefer it to both of the originals. Dangermouse’s 99 problems is the remix to end all remixes.
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@aud @FeloniousPunk TBH prefer it to both of the originals. Dangermouse’s 99 problems is the remix to end all remixes.
@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... -
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?
Does X.25 count?
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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?
America Online via 33.6. Not an OG, but still old
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America Online via 33.6. Not an OG, but still old
@TeflonTrout was forced into AOL after they bought up Compuserve. those were the days.
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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 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.
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My gmail account is 21 (old enough to drink).
@darth_hideout
Damn that's a lot of data Google has slurped up on you.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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?
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?
