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Unless those refugees are Jews, then it's basically like being on Twitter or Facebook circa 2017.

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<fake Yorkshire accent>
56k modem? Luxury! When I were a lad ...
🙃

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56k? So you had a posh one then. Bet it even had autodial.

300 baud ftw.

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When Kermit wasn't just a frog
Parity was not about dominance in sports leagues
Norton commanded the'verse
And HP products and corporate culture were admired

@Janeishly Yeah, but did those filthy casuals ever use Prestel?

@Janeishly 😂🤣😂

@Janeishly That's not the list of things a real old timer on the Internet would bring up. We would talk of goats from Christmas Island, girls hanging out in tubs, and the sharing of cups.

That is, we would...if the filters didn't instantly block such conversations.

@Janeishly usenet?

@Janeishly those were the days

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@Janeishly All that, and finding a new BBS that was within your local calling area. Better yet finding out that a new ISP was in your town and they had much better service then your current ISP

@Janeishly Back before the Web... When the internet was Gopher, WAIS, Veronica, IRC, and Usenet. It was a hell of a time.

@Janeishly there are non-grizzled out in the world somewhere??

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I feel so seen.

@Janeishly I like to remind people of the lil green on green chat boxes you'd plug into the phoneline from the 80s. Because that was a thing. xD And remembering when my parents upgraded from 14k to 56k and the computer not even know what the math to do with it. But also, BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBEEEEEEEE

@Janeishly It me. :)

@Janeishly You can tell us from the others because, when we want you to be quiet, we simply write +++, and then wonder why it fails

@Janeishly Yay though I witnessed its birth, baby steps and adolescence, I yet hope to see it grow through to some semblance of maturity.

Nice to meet your acquaintance.
Kindly avoid the lawn. etc.

@Janeishly

Christmas, 1979. I wore out my pong paddle and got an upgrade!

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@Janeishly <kerplunk> is the sound of some troll hitting the bottom of your usenet kill file. Simpler times.

@Janeishly

An AOL disk in the box every day.

Only after you subscribe do you realise that "AOL" stands for "Always Off Line".

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I skipped 56k modems.

Went directly with a luxury fixed 64k ISDN (now how modern Android keyboards don't want to predict these 4 letters) line with a static IP as a business expense.

@Janeishly I'd thought at first you meant actual seafarers (on boats, posting via LTE or satellite links), and I'm fairly sure there's *at least* 3-5 of those on here..

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[Feels seen.]

@Janeishly 640k ought to be enough for anyone

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56k modems?
Youngsters

@Janeishly Truth. I've been on these seas since 1986. Web? We had WAIS and gopher and telnet and pine and tin.

@Janeishly
*shaking 1200 baud modem* Hey you kids, get off my line! I got an FTP to do here!

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You know you're old on the internet if your initial reaction to 2g1c was simply 'meh, seen worse' and moved on.

@Janeishly that’s a nice, poetic rework of the classic quote. Really hits the mood.

@Janeishly I remember 56k modems. Impossibly advanced compared to the 2400baud modem I was using at the time to access fidonet. Science fiction stuff. You couldn't even whistle the handshake tones, it was so advanced.

@Janeishly I remember the scream of the modem as it connected, usually to a BBS, but later the "information super highway". Mosaic was my first browser after I graduated from IRC.

@Janeishly *has IRC client open*

@Janeishly I remember when they were still arguing about whether the top-level domain came first or last, so code just had to try it both ways to see which worked.

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Heave ho !
@colin_mcmillen

@Janeishly also grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the literal ocean @rek @neauoire

@Janeishly 56k modems? That was a utopian dream. We’re talking 14.4k when it started ”for me back in the good old days” 🤣🤣🤣😱

@Janeishly arrrr

@Janeishly Home, home again 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmKaomo5Y8Y

@Janeishly I came here to reply "has the dial up stopped screaming, Clarice" but wowza the other reply was a wild way to hijack and recenter a conversation.

@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk it took me two re-reads to parse this correctly with "grizzled seafarers" as a metaphor rather than literal, since i've encountered a handful of these types who are also literal seafarers

@Janeishly I should definitely do that.

@Janeishly hey, my second job in IT was working for Gateway

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We sit in a circle and start chanting the dialup sounds in rounds, and it all culminates in a unisoned 'You've Got Mail' at the end.

@Janeishly @mira I feel like I literally just made the post you're talking about two days ago, including the blade runner reference.

@Janeishly SLIP or PPP ?

@Janeishly never. As long as I live catastrophies are looking like this: 👇🏻

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@Janeishly Mastodon really does feel like the last lighthouse for the internet’s old guard. The ones who remember when the web felt like an adventure, not an algorithmic prison

@Janeishly ... I have chatted with Eliza on various IRC channels in the late 1980s. Does that count?

@Janeishly 56k? 300 bayd which got upgraded to 1200/75.

4 times the bandwidth! Phoar!

(Cue - get off the phone Andrew!)

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"I fought in the great Usenet Wars, where the first trolls were forged, 2400 baud at a time. Where the groundwork for the first memes were laid -- primitive things of simple words, barely more than repeated jokes.

Back when one truly could not fathom how someone as dumb as that managed to get onto the internet."

@Janeishly I feel seen.

@Janeishly @da_667 May the Internet Oracle bless this post. Praise Bob- In the name of Kibo, fnord.

@Janeishly I saw someone say something like "Facebook is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who need help with their computers live. The fedi is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who *designed and built* the damn computers live".