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Feeling old yet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

No. Feel old yet?

I do.

[–] flicker@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Nooooo! It's not possible!

Search your feelings...

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

ICQ > IRC

Yes, I'm that exact age.

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

Man, the early Internet was so cool

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Do not cite the deep magic...

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] webhead@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

/slap

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

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

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

/disco mode on ftw

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Dal.net gang