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minus-squaretezoatlipoca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYou’re missing the precursors: Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :) The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
minus-squarejherazob@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIRC is STILL running to this day
minus-squareBorgzilla@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYup, and some servers are very active.
minus-squaremanitcor@lemmy.intai.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
minus-squareASCIIansi@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoIf we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
minus-squareeclipxe@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago+1 you’re right. Especially IRC…oh how I miss those days.
minus-squarealternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoI miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
minus-squarecstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoAs a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I’ve felt since Fidonet ;)
You’re missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
IRC is STILL running to this day
Yup, and some servers are very active.
I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
If we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
+1 you’re right. Especially IRC…oh how I miss those days.
I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
As a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I’ve felt since Fidonet ;)