"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 shamelessly stole that quote from a random post I saw on here. It perfectly captures my online existence and what I think about the current state of it.
I've been online since the mid 90's, usually through friends computers at first, before that I'd been tinkering with computers since I was about 12yrs old, from things like Commodore 64's & Amiga's as well as Atari ST's. I got my first PC with a modem in 98, I've been building my own PC's since 2000, but I'd been upgrading systems in some way since at least 91.
I remember the hope and promise it held and how that's been ripped away from everyone for lies, tracking, privacy invasion and a subscription to everything. If they could force you into a subscription service to breathe... they would.
I've been on Masto for 3yrs or so now. I deleted facebook in 2011, twitter in 2018 (not that I really ever used it) and shunned all others with the exception of G+ when that was good between 2011-2015.
Mastodon is my only social media platform now. I switched to beige.party because my previous instance went through a period of instability and was constantly down for a day or two at least 2 or 3 times a month.
Things that interest me or I post about.
#Humour
#Sarcasm
#Comedy
#Innuendo
#UnintendedInnuendo
#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Firefly
#Farscape
#FinalSpace
#scifi
#fantasy
#Tolkien
#TerryPratchett
#Discworld
#TheExpanse
#JamesCorey
#grunge
#metal
#indie
#alternative
#Goth
#Rock
#80sMusic
#90sMusic
#ISwearALot
#Fuck
#Shit
#Cunt
#Dogs
#RockMusic
#Technology
#Equality
#HumanRights
#Disabilities
#ActuallyAutistic
#HighFunctioningAutism
#Cycling
#EBikeRides
#FridayRockShow
#PCMasterRace
#Gaming
#RetroGaming
#SolarUpdate
#GoingGreen
#BadPicsOfFood #NomNomNom
#DIYDay
Some people like to put fancy letters after their names, so I thought I'd do the same.
BSC = Bronze Swimming Certificate
SSC = Silver Swimming Certificate
If you got the joke, yay!
Phantastik-News.de
WGOM
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC
Anomnomnomaly
Andy
SkyfaR
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