evacide5d ago
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
Show threadMark IJbema
@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
May 11 at 9:16pmWeb
Show threadSteven Reed5d ago
@mark
@evacide mine still is irc! It survives in dark corners :)
Show threadkrejgo4d ago

both of those places still exist and are active @mark @evacide

Your "homes on the internet"( in those two examples) didn't crumble,  you just left home.

Maybe it's time to revisit them 😀

Show threaddpflug4d ago
@krejgo
The technology isn't the home; the people in it are.
@mark @evacide
Show threadChristopher4d ago
@dpflug
Bingo. I grew up on IRC, and none of the people who were there are there now. They all left when Twitter became a thing.
@krejgo @mark @evacide
Show threaddraeath4d ago
@krejgo @mark @evacide every time I have tried usenet over the last 20 years it's all been piracy and spam.
Show threadLukefromDC4d ago
@draeath @krejgo @mark @evacide Spraking of piracy, through about 2006-2007 I was able to use Usenet for serious discussions of pirate radio transmitter design and operation.
Show threadLightning Bjornsson*  4d ago

@krejgo @mark @evacide Re: Usenet: I went there, I saw, I stayed a while, and I fucked off.

There’s probably a reason Mark did, too. #lang_en

Show threadJordan4d ago
@mark @evacide And BBSes
Show threadThe Doctor4d ago
@jordan @mark @evacide And BBSes.
Show threadgullevek ☢️ 🇯🇵4d ago
@mark @evacide My home is still irc. Usenet on the other hand :( I miss that
Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  4d ago

@gullevek @mark @evacide Lately I've filled my irc niche with the local #meshcore community. Low reliability, low bandwidth, mostly "test" messages, but it's got that, je ne sais quoi, nerd roost vibe I guess.

(I still miss #initgame.)

Show threadgullevek ☢️ 🇯🇵4d ago
@ozdreaming @mark @evacide The nice thing about my irc life is that there are still the same people there that where there more than 30
Years ago
Show threadCleo4d ago
@mark @evacide my house is still irc and usenet 😂
(But damn is there alot of crazy on usenet.)