I’ll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
  • ScrumblesPAbernathy
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    131 year ago

    IRC is so rad. I learned to touch type by hanging out in IRC channels in the dark on a stolen shell account in 93. I felt like a hacker, really I was a goofball talking about rollerblading on a shell account that no one cared about because they got it for free with their SLIP account.

    • @gabereal451@beehaw.org
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      81 year ago

      If I learned nothing from the movie ‘Hackers’, it’s that all hackers need to know how to rollerblade. It’s like, if you don’t know how to rollerblade, are you really a hacker?

      • DrWeevilJammer
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        51 year ago

        If you can’t rollerblade to a public phone to use your bluebox so you can call your granny for free, are you really a phreaker?

        • metaStatic
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          21 year ago

          core memory unlocked.

          except replace blue with beige and granny with a running a pirate BBS