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  • oranges
    17·
    2 years ago

    You can count me in that age group too… I was there for the very first dial up, ICQ, Messenger, Kaza and the rest of it.

    Shut my account on Reddit a few days back and have not been back since. Can’t recall how many years I was there but it’s easily 10+.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      My reddit account is 8+ years old but I don’t feel right about deleting it or the comments.

      As I wrote in another thread, many of my comments in there are answers to questions and/or explanations/instructions.

      So many times I found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else that it doesn’t feel right to me to remove mine.

    • FlanFlinger
      5·
      2 years ago

      Napster and Kaza on dialup, PC set to auto redial after 3 hours to keep within the terms of my unlimited data plan.

      Just over 20 years on one of the earliest “social media” websites, and I wasn’t exactly young when I joined that.

      • oranges
        4·
        2 years ago

        Ahhh good old Napster I forgot about that one… Waiting hours to download a full track only for someone to answer the phone part way through.

        The glory days :)

        • FlanFlinger
          1·
          2 years ago

          To add to your list of chat programs, the pre MSN chat program that came with Windows, followed by Gooey and Odigo

          • oranges
            3·
            2 years ago

            MSN was a blast… I can’t say I used Gooey or Odigo they don’t ring a bell :)

            I remember eventually progressing into IRC relay chat (the app I used to use was called MIRC) and that was a blast.

            I remember the first time talking to someone on MSN and they were in America. I’m not exaggerating when I say it blew my mind ! I could reach out and speak to someone that far away almost instantaneously. It was and still is phenomenal to me. So much so I eventually changed careers to become a developer :)

            • FlanFlinger
              1·
              2 years ago

              I still keep in contact with a couple of people from Gooey (it shut down around 2002 I think), it was an excellent chat platform, you had chat rooms linked to whatever webpage you were on, very good for common interests. We even had a few meetups, I was working contract work at the time and had a 3 month spell were I travelled around the UK visiting various Internet weirdos.

              • oranges
                2·
                2 years ago

                That’s pretty epic not going to lie !!!

                I remember I became really friendly with a girl from Malta. We wrote a few letters back and forth after meeting on ICQ but unfortunately life then got in the way and we lost touch. I have scratched my head on so many occasions as to what her name was I would love to reach out and see what she’s been up to all these years.

                Kudos to you staying stay in touch all this time. That really is awesome :)