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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."
I think you mean de-enshittify.
I used to wait 30 minutes for a png of Spock to download at a blistering 1200 baud onto my beefed up Gateway 386.
I was on local BBS’s way before the Usenet. Wildcat!
@PChoate Yeah, I probably do but it's a bit too cumbersome in the mouth (and doesn't quite map as well onto "die", which is the original word).
It's amazing that we all used to wait so long for stuff to happen. I remember it being irritating, especially if you'd waited for half an hour for a tape game to load and it then gave you an error message right at the end... but it wasn't as irritating as waiting for a single YouTube advert to let me skip it, the odd time I forget never to tap a YT link on my phone.
@Janeishly @PChoate I remember using “getright” to download things with minimal repetition across connection failures, and wishing there was a “putright” to do the same for uploading.
But I think the interruption that really pissed me off was when I’d set up some long running task to run overnight, and log on in the morning to find Windows Update ate my homework. Having to edit the registry to be able to use my computer on my schedule help me switch to Mac
One of my jobs was to work on mainframes through Telnet terminals. Later PCs.
I ported a bunch of things to our network when they created one, but the big stuff all had to stay on the mainframe so I was working with both.
So one of my tricks was running large overnight mainframe jobs, but it required a live connection to a session on my computer that would mysteriously toggle off occasionally.
I had a portmanteau of connections!