slop enjoyer
the movie hackers tricked me into believing exchanging top secret floppy disks via skateboard was a much bigger part of adult life
Oct 12 at 1:19amWeb
Show threadslop enjoyerOct 12
haven’t even found one person who wants to exchange floppies yet
Show threadShawn Hooper (he/him)Oct 12
@slop At least I’m still using floppies. Can’t stakeboard to save my life though.
Show threadAaron DavisOct 12

@shawnhooper @slop I wish I could still use floppies. Just think of all all the storage you could fit on those bad boys if they had modern hardware inside.

(Also, I could use a power strip like that.)

Show threadShawn Hooper (he/him)Oct 12
@Aaron_Davis @slop hmm, I’ll have to look next time I’m in that room. That may be a lighting dimmer pack. (The floppies are for a lighting console)
Show threadcalvin 🛋️ Oct 12
@slop well when you phrase it like that! 😆
Show threadbentendoOct 12
@slop you got any good ones?
Show threadslop enjoyerOct 12

@benbrown i have a few floppy sets for old linux distros

so no lol

Show threadbentendoOct 12
@slop make them into something cool :)
Show thread√-ʇoɾəuɐnɾ (Etaoin Shrdlu)Oct 12
@slop “There ya go again,” said Mother derisively, “exchanging floppies on the Mastodon or whatever…”
Show threadmivox is exhausted Oct 12
@slop I’ve never found a secret underground video game club either. I feel misled.
Show threadIDGAF CertifiedOct 12
@slop 👋
Show threadjwzOct 12
@slop Hello friend https://jwz.org/b/ykEr
NEUROBLAST: Dispatch From The Cyberpunk City

The following is the first of two articles that I contributed to the second issue of the NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine, which was available for sale on floppy disk at last month's Cyberdelia. It is a State of the Union of San Francisco 2023, and is about the healing power of the Doom Loop. I'm re-posting it here because it's a little complicated to access in its original form... If your kids ...

Show threadViraptorOct 12
@slop
I'm up for exchanging floppies via skateboard whenever you're ready. I wanna do it at least once before I die. I can find a long coat and colour my hair as well for the occasion.
Show threadlarge mozzOct 12
@slop palm 'em a thumb drive and say "plug it into your computer, trust me" then run before they can punch you
Show threadalways tiredOct 12

@slop

There was a time where I actually got my mail via sneakernet. UUCP jobs via floppy disk.

Show threadrwrvOct 12
@slop unfortunately I'm skateboardless and probably hundreds of miles from you but I do have a floppy somewhere
Show threadFlesh & bone by the telephoneOct 13
@slop How many people have you asked?
Show threadunsponsorOct 14
@slop maybe someone on the local bbs would be interested
Show threadJohn TimaeusOct 14

@slop

Having traded floppies while skating in a mall parking lot in PA, most of what we got was crap. Most of what they got was calling card numbers that would burst into flames the next week.

Show threadBitslingers-R-UsOct 14
@slop Sometimes it's up to you to make it happen. While none of the kids I know these days skate, I still do, plus I've convinced several to get USB floppy drives so we can exchange disks.
Show threadÉléanoreOct 14

@slop

If you speak a little French, you can try http://elud.tkt.lol/

That's literally what it is about.

Envoie-Lui Une Disquette

ƒchangez des disquettes comme en 1990 !

E.L.U.D.
Show threadAlex MarkleyOct 19
@slop i remember exchanging floppies. as i recall there were… downsides
Show threadｒａｃｈｅｌOct 12
@slop that scene changed my life the first time i saw it in 2018. the way he skateboards up to him out of the fog to exchange the floppy was one of the best things i've ever seen. i wish the 1990s were real.
Show threadslop enjoyerOct 12
@phantasma that entire movie is a fever dream and i love it
Show threaderin sparlingOct 12
@slop be the change you want to see in the world.
Show threadThadOct 12
@slop I encounter a lot fewer lit sticks of dynamite than Looney Tunes led me to believe
Show threadD2Oct 12
@slop it can be.
Show threadKat Valentine AllwellOct 12
@slop
Be the change, flyace
Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarOct 12

@slop They... used to?

It was much harder to get software before the internet. When I was a kid that had talked their parents into buying them a computer under the pretense of learning something (turned out that wasn't a pretense later), I had to rely on other kids in school to swap stacks of greasy 5.25" floppies.

Games you could get easy. Shareware collections came with computer magazines you could buy from pocket money. But if you wanted to write software in more than GWBASIC, you needed a compiler.

I was looking for a C compiler or MASM for ages, but in the end I got Turbo Pascal from a punk with green dyed Irokese and thus my first "higher" language turned out to be Pascal, which I still have a soft spot for.

No skateboards though, sorry.

Show threadViraptorOct 12
@yngmar
Eastern Europe flee markets used to have people selling floppies/cartridges with warez. Unfortunately it didn't look as fun as in Hackers and no rollerblades. People were mostly black and white too.
@slop
Show threadSkaveRat 🐀 Oct 12
@slop be the change you want to see in the world
Show threadR.L. LEOct 12
@slop Instead, it became thumb drives in Rubik's Cubes
Show threadSteve LoughranOct 12

@slop @GossiTheDog I found having my brainwaves directly connected to a computer an equal let down

Neuromancer: Case jacked into his custom deck and flipped into the matrix.

Reality: the neurology nurse plugged Steve into a USB port in the Windows PC. Nothing happened. He tried again

"Let's bring up Windows Device Manager," Steve suggested, "move the pointer over the PC icon, tap the right mouse button and we will get a menu"

Steve took over the keyboard. He'd debugged USB connectivity problems so many times. Except this time, he realised -he was the USB device that wasn't working properly

Show threadamberOct 12
@slop ooo hit poot
Show threadSigmundFreudsBartenderOct 12
@slop the matrix made me belive in miniDisc(r)
Show threaditomatoOct 12
@slop be the change you seek
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 12

@slop

i'm still waiting on the mythological station wagon full of hard drives

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEOct 12
@benroyce @slop Apparently a truck full of disk drives is a real thing. For initial data load for some backup services, cloud services, etc, as being more practical than online transfers for vast amounts of data.
Show threadslop enjoyerOct 12
@TimWardCam @benroyce ah amazon used to do this for AWS, a literal semi truck called the snowmobile that they would bring in to transfer huge datasets. i think they’ve stopped though with the ubiquity of super-fast fiber
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 12

@TimWardCam @slop

{checks one item off the list}

and IP over Avian Carriers?

Show threadStuartBOct 12
@TimWardCam @benroyce @slop IIRC, The Lord Of The Rings movies special effects scenes were transfered the last few miles from WETA to Peter Jacksons editing suite on iPods, because the broadband connection where he was editing it (in London) couldnt provide the bandwidth needed, but his home connection could.
A single iPod in a car beat a broadband connection for speed and reliability.
Show threadslop enjoyerOct 12
@stuartb @TimWardCam @benroyce this rules
Show threadskippyOct 12
@slop @jwz Just watched it again last night. So much rollerblading. So much great fashion.
Show thread✨the daniel✨Oct 12
@slop don’t forget that You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
Show threadRyan FinnieOct 12
@slop Snow Crash gave me unrealistic expectations of the personal life of my local Domino's delivery driver.
Show threadMartin HamiltonOct 12
@slop always make sure your top secret floppy disks are appropriately labelled...
Show threadTheJen will not complyOct 13

@slop That was us in the 80's as kids. The sneakernet. Seriously it was a real thing. :)

That's how we all played leisure suit Larry. Heh.

Show threadJyrgen NOct 14
@TheJen @slop Yes, we did! Ken sent me.
Show threadFun KellyOct 13
@slop oh shit should we start
Show threadsophia♥️Oct 13
@slop when i post 💾 it means it's a secret
Show threadCubeOfCheeseOct 13
@slop great, now I have to learn how to use a floppy disk
Show threadsergio_101Oct 14

@slop

I always thought I would have something to encrypt.

Show threadRabbitsfootOct 14
@slop you mean it wasn't?!
Show threadgkrnoursOct 14
@slop yeah no, it's fake date with beautiful woman trying to record your voice to hack into your work place that's a real part of adult life
Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Oct 16
@slop
Be the skateboarding hacker you want to see in your adult life.