Collective memory on the internet is wild. Some of...

Collective memory on the internet is wild. Some of us are old enough to remember Twitter!! It was a whole thing for over a decade. Learn your history

Like 8 May 2023 at 18:01 | Open on friend.camp

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Darn… I remember I refused to install Microsoft Comic Chat even if it was considered the coolest way to communicate… in 1996 😄

8 May 2023 at 18:04 | Open on mastodon.cisti.org

@GustavinoBevilacqua I installed the shit out of that thing

8 May 2023 at 18:22 | Open on friend.camp

@darius it was why I wanted to learn Ruby. In 2007!

8 May 2023 at 18:06 | Open on hackers.town

@darius Man, whatever happened to that place? It was so huge for a while. I think it was bought by a racist or something.

8 May 2023 at 18:16 | Open on xoxo.zone

@darius @evan Some say we even had sites *before* Twitter, but no archeological evidence to support this has been found yet.

8 May 2023 at 19:33 | Open on mastodon.mallegolhansen.com

@darius not sure what you're talking about, all I remember before Fediverse is NNTP newsgroups (and bulletin board systems before that)

8 May 2023 at 20:35 | Open on mastodon.berlin

Apparently, it's still around. Those old projects never seem to die properly.

10 May 2023 at 8:42 | Open on mstdn.io