Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmyeclipxe@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 47 points – 1 years agoIt's been a long journey, but here we arrive. Welcome home.203Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsYou're missing the precursors: Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :) The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin systemIf we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncerIRC is STILL running to this dayAs a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I've felt since Fidonet ;)
You're missing the precursors: Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :) The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin systemIf we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncerIRC is STILL running to this dayAs a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I've felt since Fidonet ;)
If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
You're missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.
I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
IRC is STILL running to this day
As a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I've felt since Fidonet ;)