You are welcome - for real

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uh oh…

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Since I also used NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia, I’m ancient. :slight_smile:

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And even before that there was Gopher…

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WAIS? Veronica? I remember the names but never used them.

And I don’t need anyone’s permission to feel old. Just sayin’… :laughing:

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I remember to call some “random” phone numbers to connect to BBS… at that time they were remnants of the past, I had curiosity.

BTW my parents scolded me because of the phone billing that month :grimacing:

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Yes, had Gopher, too, but there was nothing useful for us there. And Usenet news :slight_smile:

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i mean if you want to get the feeling back … there is neonmodem

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Here’s an oldie I remember. Pine (email client) - Wikipedia

And sending files with this

:grin:

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This was what we had early on for www.

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On OS/2 (yet another relic - I was part of the team who translated it to Hungarian) we used uuenview/uudeview.

And for Usenet news, there was, I believe, I client called yarn (yet another reader for news). But I’m unable to find any info about that.

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I used to read sci.astro.amateur and lurk (but rarely post) on comp.lang.c. It could be rough and tumble at times. There was a reader called rn (read news) but I usually used one of the early GUI readers.

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Our first use of news was via tin, and a text-only terminal, connecting to a Sun box, where we used centrally assigned user names (mine was s4050kov).

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nn or netnews it was for me, hence in the days of the glorious galatic empire when men were real men, women real women and little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri real little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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I’ve been young longer than you

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Ah, yes, the thing that you used to go murder your eyes on a GeoCities site you found with AltaVista…

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I belonged to an early British forum called cix. In those days they were called Bulletin Boards, but the principle was the same. It had (at first read only) gateway to Usenet. iirc, rec.music.indian.classical was my early resource for Indian music. Early experience of Internet expectations: I once got roasted for a guy for not putting “IMHO” when, as far as I could see, what I had written could not be anything other than a personal opinion. lol.

On cix we chatted about cats, traffic, unix… So nothing’s changed, really: it is just got more technically sophisticated. It was command-line, terminal based. A lot of people didn’t like the graphic interface when it eventually happened. Even non-techies!

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I’m so old I cant remember that image… where am i?

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I recognize it, and I am old.