Devils panties 01/02/2025

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

The ancient call of the wild

[metastatic@kbin.earth]

wanna cyber?

[gubblebumbum@lemm.ee]

i didnt even know people had internet back then.

[szethfriendofnimi@lemmy.world]

Back in my day we both uploaded and downloaded, using bare HyperTerminal*, over audio “snow”. And we liked it that way!

*[^Or Netscape navigator….or iRC]

[hubertmanne@moist.catsweat.com]

I kid you not there were folks flunking out of college due to irc addiction. Same would happen with the avatar games for the folks who used the novanet/plato system (old internet and usually you had to take a class that still used it to realize it existed at the time)

[ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I put on my robe and wizard hat

[uservoid1@lemmy.world]

College had free internet with 24/7 open terminals room all running IRC and few with some warez FTP. There were no ISP for the home market yet, only dial up BBS.

[hubertmanne@moist.catsweat.com]

yup and the 24/7 were in the same building. the basement of every dorm. amazing how many folks were there at 3am on any particular day. it was like being at a con.

[uservoid1@lemmy.world]

Once in a while we had IRC meetings IRL with people from colleges all around the country. Age of the naive internet.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.

[draneceusrex@lemmy.world]

Sigh, was so fun taking over a lab and playing a MUDD together with like 10-15 people. Some of my favorite times in college.

[alphaomega@lemmy.world]

Before the internet you could dial up public boards and connect to a server. Like in '88 I was online.

[rustydrd@sh.itjust.works]

Usenet, email, and some other internet services have been around since the 70s/80s. Nowadays the internet is often taken to be synonymous with the world wide web, but there's plenty of stuff that was available much earlier.

[sevan@lemmy.ca]

I think in 1995 my dad had pay by the minute internet access and I wasn't allowed to use it (and didn't really know what it was anyway). Somewhere around 1996/7 he got a dedicated ISDN line with unlimited internet and I stayed up all night talking to strangers in chat rooms or playing video games. Good times!

[yggstyle@lemmy.world]

Bloodninja for the uninitiated. When trolling was an artform.