2022-11-29 15:11 UTC
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@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu 2022-11-29 15:13
@stavvers@masto.ai Yeah, programming with punch cards was a bear…:) >old guy here
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@Spudman101@glitch.social 2022-11-29 15:16
@stavvers@masto.ai Was talking to someone the other day about the bad old pre-internet days when we would see someone in a film and think "I know them from something else... What was that?" and then would just never find out.
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@gummitch@mastodon.social 2022-11-29 15:19
@stavvers@masto.ai If you had to look up something obscure, you had to go to a library. If it was Saturday evening, you'd have to wait until the library opened on Monday morning.
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@Loukas@mastodon.nu 2022-11-29 15:14
@stavvers@masto.ai My pupils asked me how old I am in class the other day. I told them I'm eeeEEEEEEEEiiiiiiiii wrgglllyyyyy kkkhhhhhhhhh BAM BAM BAM old
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@Hmwhatnow@mstdn.social 2022-11-29 15:29
@stavvers@masto.ai geocities was my training ground. Simpler times.
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@s@social.sd.ai 2022-11-29 15:32
@stavvers@masto.ai "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate..."
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@leslore@zeroes.ca 2022-11-29 15:38
@stavvers@masto.ai the thread of comments to this could be a Monty Python sketch "when I was young we carved missives onto clay tablets & transported them on sailing ships - often not hearing back for a year..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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@Timberwolf@topspicy.social 2022-11-29 15:44
@stavvers@masto.ai I bought CD-ROMs with downloaded copies of Internet sites and files on. One of them had indexed about 4 months of posts from a public flight sim forum and that was a wild time, reading all those threads which I would never be able to respond to.
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@darrendilieto@mstdn.social 2022-11-29 15:47
@stavvers@masto.ai try loading a video game from a cassette tape. 😂
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@Xhuuya@tech.lgbt 2022-11-29 15:48
@stavvers@masto.ai some of yall kids never watched anime on youtube with each episode split into 3 parts and invariably the middle part would be missing and it really shows 🤣
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@ralasinchains@mstdn.party 2022-11-29 15:55
@stavvers@masto.ai I USED #birdsite THROUGH SMS. I could only respond to people with T9 and not user interface. This is wayyy more comfy than that fo sho.
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@toydragon@nitecrew.rip 2022-11-29 16:00
@stavvers@masto.ai once upon a time the twitter fail whale was oft lifted from the oceans by the twitter birds multiple times a week..
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@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social 2022-11-29 16:03
@stavvers@masto.ai Ah. The "Cindy Crawford takes 10 minutes to download " years.
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@scorpiosoul9@mstdn.party 2022-11-29 16:05
@stavvers@masto.ai only 54 minutes??? 😂
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@janey_mac@mastodon.ie 2022-11-29 16:06
@stavvers@masto.ai If you misspelled hamster on purpose then you’re the only other person I’ve ever met who remembers the misspelling in the hampsterdance URL. If you didn’t then sorry for drawing attention! 😬
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@TheNewElizabeth@mindly.social 2022-11-29 16:09
@stavvers@masto.ai Bwaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa!! Same.
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@MamboCat@speedlines.stctp.zone 2022-11-29 16:13
@stavvers@masto.ai *laughs in dial-up noise*
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@TopKnot@mas.to 2022-11-29 16:27
@stavvers@masto.ai FYI: The US apparently doesn't have enough "angry women" considering the screwed up conservative party gained seats in the House.
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@CorinnaBalkow@digitalcourage.social 2022-11-29 16:59
@stavvers@masto.ai I just told people how in the old days when we were producing a short video, you had to actually manually turn a knob for the effect of blending. VHS tape producing was chronologically fixed, so I´ve you found an error later, the whole process meant you either forgot fast you found an error or you had to do all the cuts and blends again from the point where you messed up...
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@dannyman@sfba.social 2022-11-29 17:00
@stavvers@masto.ai the informal polling shows that Mastodon attracts us old people who remember what it was like when technology was new and kind of weird but exciting.
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@Hal_Brown@masto.ai 2022-11-29 17:33
@stavvers@masto.ai Yeah, I got this as a cute GIF this morning when I tried to go to #Mastodon. Then I wrote my blog story, came back, and it was working like it usually does. Not a big deal. Now I just have to persuade a few people to read my blog, ad free, and clever as all get out takes on politics.
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@LMurch@mas.to 2022-11-29 17:35
@stavvers@masto.ai Reading this really brought me back. Maybe the old days weren't that great, but they were good times.
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@theropologist@beige.party 2022-11-29 17:45
@stavvers@masto.ai The comments about how it's glitchy drive me crazy. As a brand new administrator who has no idea what he's doing I can attest to how resilient Mastodon is as an application. For the most part, no matter what dumb stuff I've done behind the scenes, when I restart the Mastodon services it comes back online and just works. I think what most people are describing as glitchiness is the result of volunteer admins heroically scaling up their instances in real time to accommodate the huge surges in volume assailing their servers. The fact that the larger instances are staying up at all, and with minimal interruption of service, is a testament to how great of a job they are doing. I can't imagine what they've had to through in the past month. Hats off to all of them.
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@GChristine@c.im 2022-11-29 17:51
@stavvers@masto.ai Yeeeaaah. I remember going to the library card catalogs to find stuff. 🤷♀️
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@Gustodon@mas.to 2022-11-29 18:03
@stavvers@masto.ai I remember explaining to my family how the 56K modem on my Dreamcast would change everything. (It only changed like six things.)
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@cherold@zirk.us 2022-11-29 18:10
@stavvers@masto.ai I walked to school 70 miles, in the snow, every day because it always snowed! School was 12 hours, 7 days a week and we got 15 hours of homework a day. You kids make me sick.
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@skynet8291997@mas.to 2022-11-29 18:11
@stavvers@masto.ai let's not forget how scrolling through myspace pages became such a tedious process because everyone's pages were weighed down with everything from music to videos to whatever crazy backgrounds people had.
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@kingkira@mas.to 2022-11-29 18:12
@stavvers@masto.ai I remember the website that had animal crossing codes taking so many ages to load that we just printed out like the whole website on paper and kept them in a binder
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@jack_nonymous@kolektiva.social 2022-11-29 18:15
@stavvers@masto.ai "you are like tiny baby" ...and in this moment you are blindingly, gloriously perfect.
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@Rhube@wandering.shop 2022-11-29 18:27
@stavvers@masto.ai me, age 14, waiting an hour for a hot publicity still of Harrison Ford to download.
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@leonieke@mstdn.social 2022-11-29 18:32
@stavvers@masto.ai I remember opening as many pages as I could, then cut off the dial-up connection again, because I was not allowed to keep the line busy all the time.
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@Twinkles21@mstdn.ca 2022-11-29 18:55
@stavvers@masto.ai Get half way through downloading that jpeg only to have someone pick up the damn phone 😮💨
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@WeegieSkeletor@techhub.social 2022-11-29 18:56
@stavvers@masto.ai ISDN2 playing quake ... Ground zero .. the British Telecom bill was like the complete works of Tolkein lol ...
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@b1gpapa@c.im 2022-11-29 18:58
@stavvers@masto.ai I dealt with dialup on 9/11, 25 or so miles from the Pentagon, with one extended family member working in downtown Manhattan and another piloting a commuter plane in the Northeast—and completely out of touch for a couple days (parked in Montreal, I think). Phone lines were a bad joke, and texting wasn’t any better than phones, so email, such as it was, was it. Not a lot of sympathy for folks complaining that their cat pictures take more than 5 seconds to load…
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@GustavoM@mas.to 2022-11-29 19:07
@stavvers@masto.ai glitchy?
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@DanaDD@mastodon.coffee 2022-11-29 19:10
@stavvers@masto.ai lol I grew up with black and white tv with three channels
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@FoxDesertGirl@mstdn.party 2022-11-29 19:19
@stavvers@masto.ai all I wanted was a ying yang twins song and what I got was Clinton denying sexual relations with that woman
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@trabex@newsie.social 2022-11-29 19:25
@stavvers@masto.ai I remember them days, trying to get something off Limewire and playing solitaire while a page loaded
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@zoomydu@mindly.social 2022-11-29 19:26
@stavvers@masto.ai I remember when our dial-up ISP provider cut us off before the end of the month...because their "unlimited" wasn't really.
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@Gaina_Cee@mastodon.scot 2022-11-29 19:44
@stavvers@masto.ai Ah, The Hamster Dance. I loved that. 😊 I remember having a note book to write my Internet usage in for when we got the phone bill at the end of the month. Happy days. 😊