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 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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