Yeah 34.

Definitely had AOL

Ouch, stop, dont hurt me there

Netscape ftw!

There was also ICQ a bit before them too.

Brb, someone needs to use the phone 😁

Busted. Old.

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Yahoo chat

I'm to old for this fashionable technology stuff mentioned above 🤯

I’m 39 ✌️

I was a ICQ user, then MSN. 🫡

36. & yes I am with you there

What’s interesting, is I see how as a generation we’re evolving, maturing one might say

Digitally native in many ways versus older generations, & now using that to become more authoritative

We do not want the status quo to continue. It cannot. The negative externalities are all too obvious

I remember when I used to sms on a pay as you go phone. God it was cool. And playing snake… lol

I have played Gorillas a lot when it was released in the early 90th... I can still vividly remember the iconic "oh oh" from ICQ when a message had arrived.

This thread makes me laugh. 😆 Memories of dial up internet, IRC chats, ICQ, Netscape, the internet before Google. I think we are the lucky generation in a lot of ways 💜

Older than that.

ICQ ❇️ (co-koo!)

My middle school communicator. Someone please make a clone of AIM that has end to end encryption. What a great chat app.

Back in my day we had #mIRC. It stood for Internet Relay Chat. We are so back, now where did I put my cane?

41... so, late BBS era up to early dialup internet, worked my first job (writing CGI scripts in C) in 99 for a company that once had a global BBS network and at the time were transitioning their services to the "new" www

🙋‍♂️ 37

According to the big g, dial up sounds are spelled like this:

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​dingdingding

All I know is that and aim sounds live in my head rent free 😂

Yes

38. mIRC asking for voice and op to then ICQ.

Ask Jeeves ftw!

I'm way before AOL. Cut my teeth on BBSes, then moved on to newsgroups over NNTP. I did have CompuServe but it was $$. Impressed folks with the AP newswire on it.

45😂

I remember writing a game in machine code back in the day, where you’d type in commands. A text based adventure. It was massive fun writing it and learning along the way. ICQ, BBS, AOL, Gopher, IRC and FidoNet all bring back memories - I might be older than many in this chat and since it’s only a number - 52. The meaning of life plus 1 decade!!!

Haha, yes. 38.

35 🤠

still feel 20 most days

55. Good ol days of chat IRL

You forgot ICQ 😀

Scuzzy.

44 and my icq was/is 652414

40s club

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IRC

51. My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cassette drive. My first dial-up provider was a long-distance phone call away. My first month of internet use cost my dad $300 dollars in long distance charges, and was therefore my last month of internet usage for a while.

Want my social security number and mother's maiden name with that? ;)

Two nine, but I do remember the dialup noise

Absolutely I am. There's a kernal of truth here for sure.

Affirmative 🫡

Prior to the Internet I use to browse the Encyclopedias for fun on rainy days. 🤪

"Uh Oh!" 😲 #lol

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Everyone used AIM when I was a kid

37

I'm a boomer, so that fits. I remember those days.

I was literally making this analogy yesterday with a friend, haha

34!

I don't know about most but I was developing ecommerce applications at 98 😂 We used Mirc long before Msn Messenger and ICQ was a thing as well then came the msn. We are the generation who makes head adjustments to cassette players to play games.

yes, 30+

Gen X, checking in.

Gregorian to Ethiopian Date Converter: ዓርብ, ሚያዝያ 26, 1982

While I did use AIM when I was a kid, I am certainly younger than 30.

Damn I miss that time too, and mIRC on Quakenet with the boys

Yeah, the good old days! 🤩

What do you think? 😉

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MSM, good old days! 30+

GenX Here....

I mean it makes sense right? takes a while to get truly disgusted with certain aspects of the world. 🤣

Generally speaking, those concerned with free speech today are the late Millennials ('80-'85) and Gen X ('64-80). Any person younger than that is a miracle!

Some historians would say I’m anywhere between 1,000 and 1,500 years old

Amstrad PPC640 generation.

Can say it really has a feel from those days around here.

35

45

I'm ZX spectrum old....

27

Nostr Messenger when??

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36

Damn I miss ICQ dude (38yo)

38

GenX here. Back in 'ol days, people who used computers and communicated 'on the internet' were considered a nerd and a bit weird. So it does feel similar in that we use freedom money and our online comms are still seen as a bit weird. But we do have a buzz going on, don't we 😃

true!

46

37

too old for this shit.. way prior to AOL.. Sinclair zx81

45.

One of the oldest things I remember, being a Zoomer, is potentially the Game Boy Advanced when that thing was still hot. Also I potentially know of Windows XP, which was a thing in the mid 00's, and I used that quite a bit (not knowing tech at the time).

I used ICQ :-)

29 here.

Omg that gave me flash backs.

Sinclair ZX-81 generation

Guess what, in some countries, even English speaking countries, we didn't have AOL.

Only one country''s citizens consistently think their insular viewpoint is universal.

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15

Somewhere around 26. AIM was just before my time, though I did have an AOL account in the late 2000s

I was a sysop of a Bulletin board system (BBS) on my MSX with 1200 baud when I was a kid.