How about a nice Delta I came across from yesterday...😉😎
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I used the internet in its early days. There was a sense of wonder and exploration. People had their own personalized websites. They connected through communities not centralized platforms. You had many search engines to choose from. It was a great time.
Everyone had their own geocities page with frames and animated gifts with a visitor cou ter and a guest book you could sign, hahahah. Miss that! I had coded my own taken website in 4th grade on notepad using an HTML book I had from the library while using net zero free ad-upported internet.
Those were the days.
Tripod & AngelFire
I remember typing anglefire and it was a porn website.
Same with whitehouse.com LOL
Ya - prime domain squatter fodder. Those guys that swooped in and bought the matching TLDs for various things cleaned up hardcore
Who d,id they pay for those
Eh back in those days either Tucows / NetworkSolutions or ARIN directly. Bunch of those squatter firms basically crunch dictionaries and come up with lists of domains they think and likely to spawn a bid. That way they pay $10 or whatever for the domain a year until someone will cough up mad monies.
Visitor counters!!!! 😂😎😂 Those rocked, we were “on point” or whatever the term was then. Seems like 100 years ago. Flashbacks.
The days of yahoo booters and cracking yahoo illegal character names. Yahoo chat mIRC chat and downloading warez. Warez took days to download on the dial up.
Yes the old Geocities pages with midi music attached. The internet was a wonderful playground to explore
Sending a song via AIM direct connect took like 20 minutes hahaha.
Aim away messages and stylized "profile" with shitty song lyrics lmfaoooo
days to download shit was no joke, and when the crap would disconnect or the bot dropped offline, younger people these days bitch when something takes more than a few minutes to download, they would have all committed suicide back then.
I had my DragonBall Z angelfire page. Shit was too much fun. I would spend hours adding gifs 😆
I used to capture images from the dbz games on emulators and compile them to make my own gifs. Learned how from another dbz fan site. My older brother had the dbz site, I had the teken site
That's awesome. Lol I didn't have those types of skills. I just wanted my own website. It would take hours because the dial up was so damn slow. I'm pretty sure I was using my dad's ThinkPad work computer.
Did you ever join those play by email RPGs where people would pretend to be a character and tell the owner of the site what his character did for each day?
Nope, did text rpgs though
Remember the good old intro.exe files on cracks and nfo files geez there was some talented programmers and artists. It was like graffiti from the internet
Geocities! Those were the days.
I feel this needs a pepe farm remembers meme!
Came here to comment this, found you beat me to it.
Geocities.... And all that stuff.
BBSes, and living through text. Those was some times, those was.
My mind can’t even comprehend this internet world you speak of,😆 you might as well have said that you own a unicorn. 🤷🏼♀️😂 My earliest “internet” experience was w/ dial up internet in high school. I would instant message w/ my long distance boyfriend for hours and tie up the house landline in the process b/c we only had one line and no call waiting. Good times. 😂 I somehow even managed to escape internet use through the majority of my long college career. By the time I actually started utilizing the internet and getting on social media, the Wild West days of the internet were long gone.
AOL at $9.95 an hour.
Try Compuserve and Prodigy.
We used to bomb out the AOL PBX systems and offline entire regions for lulz.
I was w the kids growing up reading 2600 & making off with friends parents AT&T books. We had Red / Black / Blue books that allowed us to do pretty much all sorts of things.
Usenet back then was an amazing thing. Between Usenet and IRC I had everything I wanted.
All these years later? Still on Usenet and IRC.
Damn I would have loved to be one of your friends.
My circle of friends consist of people following what I was doing but they didn't know any better on computer terminology. They just did what I told them to do but I wasn't keen enough to go beyond going on IRC or AOL chat rooms back then.
Later on in life, I learned about 2600, Kevin Mitnick, Cap'n Crunch whistle and many more. Guess I wasn't as adventurous as you guys were back then.
Honestly it was a pretty - aware thing on our end. We had this sense that we could get ahead of even a lot of security “experts” since everything was in its infancy. Legit a lot of it spawned from our schools having local token ring networks so we figured out ways to mess with each other in class - grew from there. At least as far as network hacking. To be fair back then IRC was amazingly entertaining and we programmed bots left and right to manage our rooms and file serving. Hell I still maintain an IRC BOT named iGor that will do random funny shit like call anyone that mentions a color racist.
We kinda did everything. We met a lot of other kids on IRC and friended them in real life. I still remember my first FBI agent in there. First door knocks. FBI agent told me like 90% of the kids they talked to had ADD / ADHD 😅 “they say you kids Don’t pay attention - it’s bullshit - you just pay attention to everything at the same time and people can’t keep up. How the hell you gona hack this PBX and still do your homework and play baseball?”
Yeah it was kinda hard to trust anyone through IRC despite setting up a relationship with them of some sort. Like I said, I guess I wasn't as adventurous as I should be back then. Maybe part of it is due to me being deaf -- I couldn't establish a sense of awareness that I can do something without getting caught or the like. I've always played it cautious for a long time, again due to my deafness.
Plus the friends I had were mostly deaf kids and I had some hearing kids but they don't know much about computers. They were just interested in doing sports and extracurricular stuff. I was too, but I still liked doing computer stuff but didn't meet anyone who shared the same interest in computers as I did until I got into college.
Oh we would have had a blast then and been fast friends. My friend Walter was almost totally deaf & it was never a thing. I actually really preferred hanging out with him a lot of the time because he didn’t want to loaf around playing video games as much as everyone else. I just never could get into that. I would rather play with a paper clip for an hour. 😅
Yeah, I always saw it as a nickel a minute. I quickly realized that I didn’t really use any AOL features and found a flat rate local Internet company. Got that second phone line and the rest is history.
Total illuminati logo
Got my first "computer" in 1985. A Tandy from Radio Shack.
I never got one. Just parts I scrapped together. My dad refused to buy us anything - but he would take us to get parts. By the time I was 10 me and my brother built our own VCR and PC. We used an old Commordore monitor forever
Wow! That is impressive. I was already married by the time computers came out for homes.
I got an award for setting up the first computer owned by our school
Damn y’all are OLD lol
I believe the word is "experienced"
That is awesome!
My first computer was an Amiga that we bought from Elek-Tek lol
Nice!
I remember when you arrived at someone's web page by entering the exact address.
I was very young but I still remember how you could dial in to your local bulletin board. At least that's how I remember it, there was no www. then.
Electronic bulletin board or EBB for short that was usually found in classified ads in the back of local college rags.
Thought it was BBS? Bulletin Board System?
Yeh, never heard of "EBB". Always knew them as BBS.
That's it! Been a minute and I am old. 😂
I had noticed by going back to read the April 18 Q drops but I hadn't tied it with the @jack from yesterday. Great Catch ANON
It's a shame because all the internet protocols were designed to be decentralised. Email in particular is one of those things that can be difficult to self host and manage, so it has been centralised with the big players like Microsoft and Google. For business/life critical operations it makes sense to use one of the big boys because you can't afford to miss an email, but for independence it is really nice to do it yourself. At the end of the day though the buck stops at your ISP, and if they cancel you, you're in trouble. Unfortunately this has been nationalised in many countries.
I have a based friend that lives out of state. I send links to news articles to him. Out of the blue, his service provider started bouncing back the emails I was sending to him. I finally figured out it was rejecting any email with a link in it. Now when I want to mail one to him, I have to be sure to turn off the hyperlink. I never had this problem until companies started censoring conservative news.
I guess some people have to pray starlink turns out to be what it can potentially be.
They will all become public utilities, as we the people tax payers paid for their development.
Plus we pay for "free internet" for the "downtrodden."
What If?
All of these corporations were seeded and funded by US taxpayer cash then handed over to black hats to operate.
If they are then seized and taken back under asset-seizure they can be sold off to another, honest operator.
Thanks for playing @jack now you all lose
Awesome.
Ya, fuck Truth Social. Signed up two months ago and still don’t have access. What a horrible roll out. I’m actually surprised since it is a product of Trump. Maybe he wasn’t all that was cracked up to be either?
You sound fake and gay
Your shilling is so transparent
Did anyone ever figure out what Jack's alias handle was?
Satan?
Yeah as someone who grew up in the 90's and was online most of the time, it was truly one of the best times I ever had because I was able to do stuff and learned a lot network-related. This is one of the many reasons why I went into IT.
Nowadays? It's full of garbage and a lot of idiots are online now, pushing nonsense on many platforms like Fakebook, Twatter, Retarddit and many more.
Luckily IRC is still around but I think the quality has declined since then because a lot of people probably favor the newfangled stuff now than being on IRC.
"Retarddit" I never get sick of reading that. Always brings a smile to my face.
I started using the internet in the late 80s. It was AF. I never thought it could lead to where we are today.
Still have my Vic Commodore 64 in the closet! Turtle, msdos, logo and actually self programming those were good times. 😉
Jack OFF!
C Nice
I would trade every app under the sun for the joy i used to have playing with making them on visual basic for AOL as a kid when we called them shit like "progz" lmao. Back then, the speeds may have been slower but it just hit so much different. All you needed for full access to the internet was a phone line, an email and its password. If AOL would have suddenly started asking for photos of IDs like Facebook did - people woulda jumped off there quicker than the best booter coulda done
The internet has become so centralized and boring that I think it’d be neat to have a sort of reboot of the 90’s/00’s internet for the future.
I came in when The Well and Compuserve were a big deal.
One way to look at it is that Trump & co are following God's plan, and God is good about putting 'coincidences' or synchronicities into things, being omnipotent and all.
That said, this is kind of a weak 'delta', IMO
Yeah sometimes we find things where we look if we look hard enough. Not necessarily true or relevant things. You can literally find a bomb delta if you go through profiles of anyone relevant, doesn't make it true.
White hats might be controlling his Twitter account or they told him to tweet this.