SeaFury 
I’ve spent a couple of hours on Matodon and it reminds me of what the internet was like back in the mid 1990s. Does anyone remember IRC? Dial up bulletin boards? Like that but better. #FirstImpressions
Bradley 🤙 
@FreyaSu totally agreed - so happy so far.
erict@FreyaSu agreed. i even have the inclination of replying to threads over here. something that was beaten out of me on 
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.@erict IKR? It feels strangely familiar.
Marcus
Cvjepsen
Ernie Smith@FreyaSu this is what we’ve been telling people!
Paul Geller@paulgeller am using Metatext. It has bigger text than Toot! My eyes aren’t has *bright* as they used to be 😝
Juan Alvarez
Chris Pirillo@FreyaSu ...remember BBSes? 😁
JR Raphael@FreyaSu Yes! So much that.
Chema Hernández Gil@FreyaSu Absolutely. For people that didn't experience those heady days, this will blow them away.
“Awesome content for free AND nobody is trying to sell me something?”
“Awesome content for free AND nobody is trying to sell me something?”
@chema we didn’t ever think the internet could be used for commercial purposes. It was just for fun….
Same here. My first exposure to the internet was at a local university, mostly using a public Macintosh IIcx at the library and a VT terminal connected to a VAX/VMS mainframe. I still remember years later seeing my very first banner ad on Yahoo and feeling shocked at the boldness.
@chema lol was it *animated*??? Shocking.
René Merced 
🇵🇷@FreyaSu I had the same thought when I came to the fediverse too! 😂
marcelo@FreyaSu @shanselman I do, before it went truly commercial. Nostalgic.
Steve@steve I had a 300 baud. Memories. That handshake!
Stephen McMahon@FreyaSu I was thinking the same thing. FTP Mail was exciting to me. I mis gopher.
Vee Uye@FreyaSu definitely feeling that vibe and I am hear for it!
Morgan Davis@FreyaSu YES (in 48pt font, bold)
Zratatouille@東京@FreyaSu yeah it has that local feeling while still being able to interact with almost everyone else.
Sure this kind of system will never have some of the features only a centralized service can offer.
But maybe it's better that way? We all became lazy, gave all our stuff to big platforms.
I realized recently how the amount of properly written blogs has diminished. Myself used to blog a lot with long big monthly articles. It was my home and I abandoned it in a way
With this migration it made me realize that I want to blog again. Like old times.
@zratul I can’t even remember my blog spot password!!!!
Nate Palmer@FreyaSu I thought the same thing about BBS’s — especially the federation aspect similar to FidoNet back in the day
Firehawke@FreyaSu Well, right now it feels a bit like old Twitter crossed with the BBSes of back when, but we'll see how it survives the influx of the masses. One could argue the internet never survived Eternal September.
Madgarden@FreyaSu I've been thinking the exact same thing!
Aaron Kulbe
@pdxmisfit @shanselman 😆 it will survive nuclear winter!
Made in DNA@FreyaSu IRC, ICQ, MU*s, and yes, baud rate BBSs... SQUEEEEEEEEEEEWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH....
@FreyaSu 😜 😍
Those were the days, eh?
Those were the days, eh?
@DNA oh god yeah! 
@FreyaSu I remember the first mp3s I received from friends from overseas. it was like Christmas. We'd spend hours swapping... or decoding photos in email!!!!!!
@DNA I remember cassette tapes and walkmans. Headphones with foam pieces! MP3s ripping them off cds!
@FreyaSu Awwwwyeah, Playstation and Super Nintendo with buds in the dorms all night long!... when you had a major term exam the next morning. LOL.
@DNA BYO desktop box for network parties with chocolate covered coffee beans and jolt cola. Double the sugar. Double the caffeine!!!!!
@FreyaSu Quake nites and VHS dubbing parties in hotel rooms at anime / scifi cons!
Oblomov@FreyaSu
Hey, IRC never went away! 8-)
Hey, IRC never went away! 8-)
DillZero