Do it Isildur! Cast the usenet groups into the fires from whence they came!
Boo. They shall be reborn like the phoenix from the flame. Just click your heels together three times…
The Usenet is still there! I was just using it a month ago.
Browsing Usenet feels like visiting the ruins of an Egyptian temple. It’s kind of cool, but it’s really not much compared to what it used to be.
Internet Boomers? There were no boomers on IRC. As always, the people have forgotten Gen X, the ones who were there, pioneering the internet, and patiently showing the boomers how to use a printer for the 987th time.
I think that was a joke about us being around for old shit like this on the Internet, not literally being boomers. Internet boomers, gray beards, etc. I’m on the older side of millennial and I remember it all because I started young lol.
ICQ > IRC
Yes, I’m that exact age.
I had a 5-digit ICQ UIN
Uh-oh!
8 here 😖
I had an icq too. I have a fun anecdote about it : I lived in small village in the countryside in France and someone from Mexico contacted me, because one of their cousin lived in my village. They gave me their email and I brought it to my friend.
Man, the early Internet was so cool
It was a big village back then. People wished you welcome when you visited their page, with their collection of kitch gifs.
Now it’s just a giant shopping center…
IRC is still around. I have mIRC on my desktop.
No. Feel old yet?
I do.
Oh my God it’s really gone.
I am but dust, now. Dust wearing a wizard hat, but still.
Nooooo! It’s not possible!
Search your feelings…
Please enlighten me internet boomers.
Basically this (Discord), but faster, with more text and no images. And without the looming threat of eventual enshitification.
/me ducks
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
The thing about getting old in the civilization we’ve made for ourselves is you’ll likely increasingly come to welcome the idea of your part in it ending.
Does Discord have trivia bots? That’s my main IRC memory.
Maybe it isn’t as fun in an age of Wikipedia and highly effective search engines.
It does. There’s also card collecting games and other stuff like that
With the amount of ads, effective search engines will soon be a thing of the past!
I put a bunch of effort once actually getting my eggdrop bot (with trivia) on discord. It worked fairly well but all the questions were made in the 90s so it wasn’t as fun for the larger age range in our server lol.
It’s funny. IRC always reminded of dial up BBS chat. Kids these days and their threaded chat…
/slap
Funderpants has quit ( * .net, * .split)
/disco mode on ftw
I was, but then I found out I’m word of the year.
EXTREMELY. Can I go have my hot cocoa now, please?
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