Shit, my steam account is older than most of the highschoolers I work with
My Steam account is almost 18 years old and I still have to select DOB when viewing “adult” games…
Well, I guess Steam won’t have a problem with California law
Steam could stop asking in California, since it’s now the responsibility of the operating system to tell Steam your age.
That might be.
Can’t be very sure about how it turns out for the Steam Deck.
The law’s definition of OS might not be on the same page as ours.
My steam account is older than the fresh University grad we just hired.
Okay, I get this may be off-topic, but “It is okay to bully–”, no, it’s not okay to bully anyone. What is passing by these people’s minds?
Is it okay to bully nazis?
That’s not bullying, that’s enforcing social mores.
Haha, I just said something similar before your reply had loaded on my screen. :) Whoops!
Is it still bullying then? Seems less like ‘bullying’ and more like ‘self defense’ and ‘standing up for what’s right’ to me.
Just like what a butthead would say.
Uhh, shut up Beavis.
We NEED a Lemmy community to screenshot the best comments ever
Honestly, the people who were around in the early internet days helped build the online world we all use now. A little respect for the veterans of dial-up isn’t a bad thing. 😄
I am one of the few people, it seems, that can not for the life of me remember my ICQ number… but I was there, using it.
Anyone remember Trillian? Having your Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Messenger, etc all in one program…
Or pidgin when it was called gaim.
I also don’t remember my ICQ number, but I had one. And I remember my first time stepping into a 99 cent only store and their registers used that “uh oh” sound from it. I always felt like nobody else recognized where it was from.
I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.
And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.
Still can :)
Omg Trillian! I haven’t heard that name in forever. You just unlocked a flood of memories.
I remember my ICQ number, 4170129, but I don’t remember why I know it.
Surely I didn’t have to type it in every time I logged in, did I? That would be a really stupid UI.
I remember trillian. You might like this -
It was just last year that re-found my little black book from the late 90’s and 2000’s with all my accounts from back then AIM/ICQ/Yahoo, shit there was even a /. account number sub 100,000 that I couldn’t log into any more
Do not speak to me of the old magic, I was there when it was written.
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Social media used to be about socializing and communicating. These days its all drivel that has bren productized into a vehicle where streaming addictive brain rot keeps the advertisements flowing and lowers self esteem.
Gen Z may have adopted the internet but it was born of us- AIM, yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC servers, news groups… all on a dial-up modem. The good old days where there wasnt enough bandwidth for all the ads of today, and the most intrusive ads were a 468x60 pixel banner at the top or bottom of the netscape page
BBS was the shiz in the olden days
I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin on a team managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB of RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.
The dude who answers, reminds me of my dad.
You wouldn’t be in my Top 8
I chuckled. I miss MySpace. Choosing a song for your profile was great. Facebook should add that feature to their profiles. So should Bluesky and Mastodon.
18982172 here.
Fun fact. ICQ was the the go to messaging platform for the porn industry and was actively being used in the industry right up to the point it was bought by a russian company.
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I remember the rise and fall of icq. I laughed from the real internet as you kids played, knowing it was a fad wouldn’t last, not worth taking seriously.
I played online before the internet, when it was scattered individuals, or when you needed access to separate telenet and arpanet, when you could keep in your head all the accessible nodes, when the building blocks you take for granted were all new and exciting ideas
Now get off my lawn
icq 29533018 hit me up, but of course that was already an additional fancy layer on top of text only chat. I had it bridged in my bitlbee setup via libpidgin together with my gtalk and irc and other xmpp stuff, and had it run in irssi in a screen on my server (next to the other screen that ran mutt for my email).
and check this: to this day I consider it the best chat setup I’ve ever had.
I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.
16577270 was mine not even close to op number.
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