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  • @oranges@lemmy.ml
    16•1 year ago

    You can count me in that age group too… I was there for the very first dial up, ICQ, Messenger, Kaza and the rest of it.

    Shut my account on Reddit a few days back and have not been back since. Can’t recall how many years I was there but it’s easily 10+.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
      7•1 year ago

      My reddit account is 8+ years old but I don’t feel right about deleting it or the comments.

      As I wrote in another thread, many of my comments in there are answers to questions and/or explanations/instructions.

      So many times I found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else that it doesn’t feel right to me to remove mine.

      • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
        5•1 year ago

        You think you’re leaving it there to help strangers, you’re really leaving it there to help Reddit Corporate.

        If they don’t reverse course by the 30th, I’m nuking my content.

        • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
          4•1 year ago

          I respect your opinion, it’s up to each individual to decide what to do with their content.

          I know it’s a compromise, I know it doesn’t help from the perspective of “fighting the bad guy” but I still believe it’s worth it anytime it helps random people.

    • @FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
      4•1 year ago

      Napster and Kaza on dialup, PC set to auto redial after 3 hours to keep within the terms of my unlimited data plan.

      Just over 20 years on one of the earliest “social media” websites, and I wasn’t exactly young when I joined that.

      • @oranges@lemmy.ml
        4•1 year ago

        Ahhh good old Napster I forgot about that one… Waiting hours to download a full track only for someone to answer the phone part way through.

        The glory days :)

        • @FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
          1•1 year ago

          To add to your list of chat programs, the pre MSN chat program that came with Windows, followed by Gooey and Odigo

          • @oranges@lemmy.ml
            3•1 year ago

            MSN was a blast… I can’t say I used Gooey or Odigo they don’t ring a bell :)

            I remember eventually progressing into IRC relay chat (the app I used to use was called MIRC) and that was a blast.

            I remember the first time talking to someone on MSN and they were in America. I’m not exaggerating when I say it blew my mind ! I could reach out and speak to someone that far away almost instantaneously. It was and still is phenomenal to me. So much so I eventually changed careers to become a developer :)

            • @FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
              1•1 year ago

              I still keep in contact with a couple of people from Gooey (it shut down around 2002 I think), it was an excellent chat platform, you had chat rooms linked to whatever webpage you were on, very good for common interests. We even had a few meetups, I was working contract work at the time and had a 3 month spell were I travelled around the UK visiting various Internet weirdos.