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  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    > older audiences won’t understand or make effort

    I wouldn’t be so sure about that :P

    When I was a kid personal computers didn’t exist, when the internet came I was already working full-time, I’m “that kind” of old :D

    I came here before the AMA was announced and I’m not the only one, very many “older” people used to “old” USENET and mailing-lists/groups are fleeing reddit as well.

    And some young people I’ve seen simply don’t care and will go on using reddit no matter what.

    Age doesn’t matter, it’s habits and mindset :)

    • oranges@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      You can count me in that age group too… I was there for the very first dial up, ICQ, Messenger, Kaza and the rest of it.

      Shut my account on Reddit a few days back and have not been back since. Can’t recall how many years I was there but it’s easily 10+.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        My reddit account is 8+ years old but I don’t feel right about deleting it or the comments.

        As I wrote in another thread, many of my comments in there are answers to questions and/or explanations/instructions.

        So many times I found solutions in reddit old comments that I couldn’t find anywhere else that it doesn’t feel right to me to remove mine.

      • FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        Napster and Kaza on dialup, PC set to auto redial after 3 hours to keep within the terms of my unlimited data plan.

        Just over 20 years on one of the earliest “social media” websites, and I wasn’t exactly young when I joined that.

        • oranges@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          Ahhh good old Napster I forgot about that one… Waiting hours to download a full track only for someone to answer the phone part way through.

          The glory days :)

          • FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
            0·
            1 year ago

            To add to your list of chat programs, the pre MSN chat program that came with Windows, followed by Gooey and Odigo

            • oranges@lemmy.ml
              3·
              1 year ago

              MSN was a blast… I can’t say I used Gooey or Odigo they don’t ring a bell :)

              I remember eventually progressing into IRC relay chat (the app I used to use was called MIRC) and that was a blast.

              I remember the first time talking to someone on MSN and they were in America. I’m not exaggerating when I say it blew my mind ! I could reach out and speak to someone that far away almost instantaneously. It was and still is phenomenal to me. So much so I eventually changed careers to become a developer :)

              • FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                I still keep in contact with a couple of people from Gooey (it shut down around 2002 I think), it was an excellent chat platform, you had chat rooms linked to whatever webpage you were on, very good for common interests. We even had a few meetups, I was working contract work at the time and had a 3 month spell were I travelled around the UK visiting various Internet weirdos.

                • oranges@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  That’s pretty epic not going to lie !!!

                  I remember I became really friendly with a girl from Malta. We wrote a few letters back and forth after meeting on ICQ but unfortunately life then got in the way and we lost touch. I have scratched my head on so many occasions as to what her name was I would love to reach out and see what she’s been up to all these years.

                  Kudos to you staying stay in touch all this time. That really is awesome :)

        • Slashzero@hakbox.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          The day I upgraded from 2400 to 14400 was a good day. There was one person on one of the multi-user boards I used to use that was on a 300 baud modem. It would take 5+ minutes to get a reply from them lol

    • BIFF@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Older audience member here. I remember seeing the DOS 2.0 box sitting on my grandfather’s shelf, and him teaching me hours to use the CLI to make in inventory of my baseball cards.

      I must’ve been about 5-6 years old then, and I later got to experience the absolute magic of 14.4 and still later that fad of whatever those .mp3 things were supposed to be…

      I left reddit and made the effort to learn how these newfangled federal sites work, and I’ll keep at it. Never did quite understand what that clock social platform was about, or why the youngers like it so much, though suspect that’s by design.