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I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like
"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."
<fake Yorkshire accent>
56k modem? Luxury! When I were a lad ...
@TheLancashireman Yeah, I've already had a mate saying "Pah! 2800 baud rate was all we had".
I'm not actually sure how fast(slow) my first connection was, because after I finished my MA in 1991 I was offline for about 8 years and missed all the very slow bits!
@Janeishly @TheLancashireman I started at 300 baud. I can still picture the Tandy/Radio Shack modem.
@shawnhooper @Janeishly @TheLancashireman
The ones where you put the actual phone receiver on them? My dad had one of those.
@fedops @katrinakatrinka @shawnhooper @Janeishly @TheLancashireman we had one of those growing up. Good times. I love Mastodon because anytime I have a new follower there's a 50% chance it's some grizzled beardo who's been using computers since the 80s and a 50% chance it's a young queer librarian who still excited about the job. Either way, it's a win.
@jessamyn fediverse in a nutshell 
@katrinakatrinka @shawnhooper @Janeishly @TheLancashireman
@jessamyn @fedops @katrinakatrinka @shawnhooper @Janeishly @TheLancashireman so i am apparently a grizzled beardo... I started on a 14.4k modem, the 28k were too expensive at the time...