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Feeling old yet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 25 points 11 months ago

Do it Isildur! Cast the usenet groups into the fires from whence they came!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

IRC is still around. I have mIRC on my desktop.

[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is bash.org still around? Time for a history lesson

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. Feel old yet?

I do.

[–] flicker@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh my God it's really gone.

I am but dust, now. Dust wearing a wizard hat, but still.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Nooooo! It's not possible!

Search your feelings...

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ICQ > IRC

Yes, I'm that exact age.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, the early Internet was so cool

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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....

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Do not cite the deep magic...

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

It does. There's also card collecting games and other stuff like that

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

With the amount of ads, effective search engines will soon be a thing of the past!

[–] webhead@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

/slap

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Funderpants has quit ( * .net, * .split)

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

/disco mode on ftw

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

It's funny. IRC always reminded of dial up BBS chat. Kids these days and their threaded chat...

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Dal.net gang

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

I wonder what happened to mr IRC friends... At this point I can't even remember their usernames.