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minus-squaretezoatlipoca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYou’re missing the precursors: Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :) The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
minus-squareASCIIansi@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIf we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
minus-squareeclipxe@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago+1 you’re right. Especially IRC…oh how I miss those days.
minus-squarealternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
minus-square1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThere are still some good communities out there. I’m still on IRC every day. It’s about the only constant over internet use from 1994 to present. IRC and E-mail. Also the web kind of, but it’s changed so so much.
minus-squaremanitcor@lemmy.intai.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
minus-squarejherazob@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIRC is STILL running to this day
minus-squareBorgzilla@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYup, and some servers are very active.
minus-squarecstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAs a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I’ve felt since Fidonet ;)
You’re missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
If we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
+1 you’re right. Especially IRC…oh how I miss those days.
I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
There are still some good communities out there. I’m still on IRC every day.
It’s about the only constant over internet use from 1994 to present. IRC and E-mail. Also the web kind of, but it’s changed so so much.
I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
IRC is STILL running to this day
Yup, and some servers are very active.
As a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I’ve felt since Fidonet ;)