Jamie RDec 19, 2022
Learning the ropes of using #mastodon - the sign up was easy. Something about it reminded me of setting up to use #Usenet news in the early days of the Internet going mainstream.
I’m really showing my Internet-age now!
Show threadJdeBPDec 19, 2022
@Jamie_R You're only truly showing your age if you liken #TwitterMigration to the difference between #Compuserve and #FidoNet. (-:
Show threadJamie R
@JdeBP Ah, CompuServe… just having a numeric ID. Those were the days!! 🙂
Dec 19, 2022 at 5:02pmWeb
Show threadJdeBPDec 19, 2022

@Jamie_R You'd be called out for being a Russian disinformation 'bot for that, now. Kids, eh? (-:

#Compuserve

Show threadJamie RDec 19, 2022
@JdeBP I think the kids were on #AOL 😉
You couldn’t move for free set-up disks (floppy or CD, take your pick) being distributed everywhere.
I always went back to #CompuServe - it just felt more refined. But that was probably just familiarity.