your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 6

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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.

which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?

#getOffMyLawn

Gopher (protocol) - Wikipedia

Show threadMumonkanMar 7

@blogdiva there has been mention of bbses here -- started in on those in 1983-4, so i guess if we are counting that, it would be ~43 years. 😭

but what i would truly count as internet would have been around 1986-7 when i was using mts(!) and usenet, etc. i think i still have some email around from 1988 approx when i got onto proper un*x system.

Show threadclewMar 7

I like that as a sub-question:

What’s the oldest email or post you still have privately? The oldest that can still be found on the searchable internet?

@Mumonkan @blogdiva

Show threadBlake C. StaceyMar 7
@clew @Mumonkan @blogdiva I have QBasic programs I wrote in the '90s, but the oldest email I still have saved is probably from 2001, exported from my MIT account.
Show threadclewMar 7

playoff round question: what's the oldest program you wrote that you can still run?

finals: what's the oldest program you wrote that OTHER PEOPLE still run?

@bstacey @Mumonkan @blogdiva

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@clew @blogdiva some "trippy graphics" programs dated from 1993, I had put the .EXE files (34K, that was a good binary size) on my CMU page, just ran them in DOS emulation.

A bit more accessibly, 1997 perl5 to render PostScript from the .puz crossword format.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/warez/puz2ps

Other people running... pretty sure nothing.

Mar 7 at 10:24pmWeb
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@clew @blogdiva though someone made a nice web page, so could be somebody *has* run my .EXE since 1995

http://eyecandyarchive.com/2ynesthesia/

Eyecandy Archive - 2ynesthesia

2ynesthesia is the updated version of Eli Brandt's Mindwarp/Synesthesia IIx programs. It renders 16 spiraling meshworks with dancing comets and grids and supports audio input via a Creative Labs Soundblaster card.