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I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like
"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."
@Janeishly CIT101 on a 1200 baud dialup. “ls”, then go pee, make some coffee, be back in time to see the last few files scroll lazily by …
@ArtHarg @Janeishly Oooh, CIT101. I still have one of those. The keyboard is noticably worse than the VT100, but it worked and it was cheap. Served as a Sun console.