My Reddit account was 19 years old before I was permabanned by their stupid AI for liking Luigi pics and saying I wish Trump wouldn’t wake up in response to a pic of him napping 😔

Saw it on an episode of MASH.

Henry is dating a 22 year old nurse. Hawkeye tells Henry that Henry has bunions older than his girlfriend.

Not really.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot slaps CaptPretentious around a bit with a large trout

18/F/Cali

Weren’t they all…

I actually was 15/f/ca. I love that it has become an internet inside joke. I spent way too much time in the Yahoo star wars chat rooms back then 😅

Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.

W98BSoD slaps usualsuspect191 around a bit with a large trout

Like ASCII tears in a digital rain

The true measure of your worth: do you prefer amber, green, or true B&W?

I got my first "home computer" in the days of the BBS's when there was such a thing as a "long distance call". Internet access was crazy expensive and not for the average geek. Back then it was a bit "underground". There were professionals and there were passionate hobbyists. Most people didn't have or need a computer in their lives. Things changed in the late 90's boom. A cultural shift when suddenly everyone joined in. The geeks were no longer king

My Steam account is almost 18 years old and I still have to select DOB when viewing "adult" games....

My steam account is older than the fresh University grad we just hired.

wasn't usenet fun?

I also don't remember my ICQ number, but I had one. And I remember my first time stepping into a 99 cent only store and their registers used that "uh oh" sound from it. I always felt like nobody else recognized where it was from.

Or pidgin when it was called gaim.

I absolutely remember Trillian. It's what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my "mainstream" friends who didn't have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn't actually need to run any new software.

Omg Trillian! I haven't heard that name in forever. You just unlocked a flood of memories.

And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.

I remember my ICQ number, 4170129, but I don't remember why I know it.

Surely I didn't have to type it in every time I logged in, did I? That would be a really stupid UI.

It was just last year that re-found my little black book from the late 90's and 2000's with all my accounts from back then AIM/ICQ/Yahoo, shit there was even a /. account number sub 100,000 that I couldn't log into any more

I have an active email address that is over 30 years old 🤷🏻‍♂️

Best I have is an active account on an anime torrent site I created in 2005. I'm more impressed that the site is still active tbh...

I feel like those platform ideas came initially from people who wanted to build something cool. Something people would use. The ads were a side effect of being part of the tech company.

Now I feel they are built because it's a way to show ads or harvest data.

Back in our day, the Internet yelled at you when connecting to it. I think that conditioning helped us brace for what's to come, and we should bring that feature back.

You see me now a veteran, of a thousand internet wars.
I've been living on the edge so long, where the tones of dialup roar.
And I'm young enough to look at, but far too old to meme
All the scars on the inside...

If I was a veteran I wouldn't want to have anything to do with the current landscape

Thank you.

Thank you for your service :)

I had freenet. It was like a party line in the 1930s version of internet. Basically you could have a little time online every day.