Eternal September was when AOL came online.
Instead of having a seasonal bump of idiots, it was never-ending.
Teaching Usenet etiquette became an unending task that ultimately failed.
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Gawdang. I never heard of that. I definitely remember Jobst Brandt ruling the roost tho. I got access to it in 1987 but probably didn’t start asking dumb questions til around 1993. I remember because we were in the antipodes they used to be some kind of a sync once a day to get the latest messages.
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It’s weird reading a usenet post in a variable-width font. Almost all of my interactions were through unix shells.
I was wondering the other day if alt.pave.the.earth had been swallowed by MAGA.
Yeah, was some kind of VAX for us. PCs were a way off.
Bro y’all are OLD old
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Alien Day is on Sunday, but Zero Cool day isn’t until August.
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First computer I used was a friend’s dad’s Tandy TRS-80. He had a modem that had suction cups that you plugged the phone handset into to use it.
In Germany, I went to a computer museum and the Commodore 64 I had as a kid was in one of the displays.
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My dad had a Vax at his office. I was disappointed that it didn’t understand BASIC.
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Apparently the one of these I had as kid is now in a museum, was my uncle’s and we borrowed it in the late 80s, take deck and all.
Like 6 years later in high school I went over to some guys house and he had a trash 80 with the same games on tape (this at a time when a NES was already passe)
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