leyrerMar 6

Shots fired: ‪“I have usernames older than you.”.

"29368333" btw. 😜

Show threadbbbhltzMar 6

@leyrer I think mine was 104490937 but that's too long, isn't it?

edit... I think the last 2 digits were 16 actually

Show threadstodarahodanMar 6
@bbbhltz @leyrer 245351351 also too long to be cool but easy to remember xP
Show threadbbbhltz
@stodarahodan @leyrer I was never cool but I did have a pre-microsoft hotmail account and my first computer used 5.25" floppies. Those were the days...
Mar 6 at 9:21amWeb
Show threadstodarahodanMar 6
@bbbhltz @leyrer thats cool!
Show threadNaga (he/him)Mar 6

@bbbhltz @stodarahodan @leyrer Only because this thread is in large part about one-upping:

Audio cassettes for storage.

I mean, that was once I had a personal computer.

(Internet proper around 1985; other kinds of online connections before that.)

Show threadbbbhltzMar 6
@naga @stodarahodan @leyrer I had a computer with a tape drive that my high school gave my brother. Never used it haha.
Show threadArvid RequateMar 7
@naga VHS for recording audio from radio (via network), admittedly, that was probably more like late 90s IIRC. Got my "boot camp" the hard way, catching a boot sector virus on my elder brothers' dual boot 8086 (from swapping games at school). Read up everything about MBR and then had the utmost of luck removing the virus manually with a hex editor. Still thank my luck for that...
Show threadLeoMar 8
@reqa @naga as a child, I tried to make a boot sector virus (but it didn't work. afaik.)
Show threadCaspar van der BurghMar 6
@bbbhltz @stodarahodan @leyrer our first PC 80386 dx33 had both 3.5 and 5.25 and we were the talk of the neighbourhood with one of the first inkjet printers. I think it was the HP Deskjet 500
Show threadbbbhltzMar 6
@casparvdburgh @stodarahodan @leyrer Oh I bet! That must have been amazing.
Show threadCaspar van der BurghMar 6
@bbbhltz @stodarahodan @leyrer it was very empowering. No dot matrix or daisy wheel limitations but seemingly infite variations of fonts, including Conic Sans. Pity that WordPerfect was not yet WYSIWYG, a couple of years later Word 6.0 unleashed my 'DTP' capabilities...
Show threadArvid RequateMar 7
@casparvdburgh that bloody thing finally leaked all of it's ink on a wooden cupboard in my room, bloody hell it was a mess.
Show threadNotASnarkMar 10

@bbbhltz @stodarahodan @leyrer My first computer used cassette tapes. It was several years before we got a 5¼" floppy drive.

For my first game console, you got plastic screen overlays which you had to stick to your TV screen to provide the graphics.