What do you think you're the last of?
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There's dozens of us!
No hundreds
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I can still rattle out the right tones you'd hear if you connected at 56k, that extra pshhhhh hhhshhhhh
When USRobotics first brought the 56k modem to market, they had an online contest to give away 100 of them. I won one. My ISP couldn't even serve me 56k for about another year.
Also, I miss silly fun winnable online contests and freebies.
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
It is depressing to think that this is what you feel makes you unique.. any 45+ person is in the same boat as you my friend...
You are special though, but this is not what makes you special.
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
My familial line. Sorry nerds, the buck stops here. I'm not gonna force anyone else into this hellscape against their will. If I ever adopt, they can keep their familial names.
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No hundreds
whole nations
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add to this that the internet made so many of us technically & technologically proficient because it was a necessary step to get us online.
that further spurred on knowledge of things that laymen wouldn't have cared about otherwise like cpu architectures or clock frequencies; operating systems internals with things like linux or bsd; knowledge of basic networking fundamental; html/css/javascript for geocities & myspace pages; etc.
as the enshitification turns the internet into walled gardens and people continue to use smart phones that "just work"; they are no longer able to repair their own devices like we had to do, which spares them from having to learn the nuts and bolts of the technology that enables our lives.
And don’t even get me started on “AI”.
As the family technical person, I can say after years of attempting to teach people to understand and solve their own problems, my support calls are down in the past year! Is it because they got smarter? No! They started using ChatGPT, CoPilot, etc and following it blindly. Do they understand the concepts of what they are changing and doing? No, but as long as the original problem is fixed, who cares if a dozen more are created, as long as they keep quiet.
I am cursed to be in the middle, couldn’t just be given a well paying technical job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
I will be last person to take the last hit from my very nearly empty lemonade raspberry dispo at some point later today.
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
I remember when the Gestapo was real, and when the wall came down.
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And don’t even get me started on “AI”.
As the family technical person, I can say after years of attempting to teach people to understand and solve their own problems, my support calls are down in the past year! Is it because they got smarter? No! They started using ChatGPT, CoPilot, etc and following it blindly. Do they understand the concepts of what they are changing and doing? No, but as long as the original problem is fixed, who cares if a dozen more are created, as long as they keep quiet.
I am cursed to be in the middle, couldn’t just be given a well paying technical job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.
i occupy a different sort of middle ground in that i'm at the right generation to get those well paying technical jobs simply because i had to monkey around with off-the-shelf hardware and linux when they were both new to most people; but i also don't get as many requests for technical help as i once did from family.
however, in my case, it's been because the entire younger generations of my family have gone with iphones along with apple's walled garden so they've never had to struggle with something like getting winsock working on windows 3.11 just to get internet porn. lol
somehow, it's only the other older & leftist in my family that insist on diy implementations with linux and foss hardware, including de-googled androids; while the moderates and conservatives alike just buy iphones and never learn because of it.
like in your case; they see that technical skillset as mildly useful at best even though it underpins their own technology choices. worst of it all to me is that i get to witness them struggling to afford another iphone or its fees simply because they refuse to go with "poor people androids" or they don't want to deal with the frustration of getting things to work without apple's walled garden; some prioritize it over food or rent simply due to the exorbitant costs.
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
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I think I’m one of the only long distance runners that still smokes. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who runs as much as I do and smokes cigarettes every day.
How much do you smoke and how much do you run?
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Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
They're probably confusing the World Wide Web for the Internet as whole.
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Day of Defeat source players:
https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All
Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.
I really liked the game something like 15 years ago. But it seems like a bad idea to get back into it now with only a few very dedicated players left.
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I think I’m one of the only long distance runners that still smokes. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who runs as much as I do and smokes cigarettes every day.
Do you smoke while running?
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Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
As they stated it became accessible to the average person in 1996. Prior to that you would be lucky if their was a local ISP offering access to the internet.
I worked at several engineering companies in 1991 onward, and even though we had high end systems and tech back then we didn't get Internet and email until 1996. And initially it was useless because your clients didn't all have email yet. -
How much do you smoke and how much do you run?
Eh I only smoke about 4-5 a day usually and at my heaviest running I did 5k plus for 8 months every day. Now I do about 15k a week.
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Do you smoke while running?
Not generally, but I did a couple half marathons where I smoked one or two smokes during the run just because it was funny. Even came in top ten percent one run when I did that.
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They're probably confusing the World Wide Web for the Internet as whole.
The usage of those terms became blurred immediately, as far as general public awareness goes.
If you use enough brain cells to be above "lol, I like that clip clicks like lolol", then you're labeled a nerd.
If you're familiar with any acronyms that have to do with tech, then you're a super nerd.
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Not generally, but I did a couple half marathons where I smoked one or two smokes during the run just because it was funny. Even came in top ten percent one run when I did that.
That is pretty funny.
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Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
Oh lol, you tried sounding smart there.
You've only sourced what is essentially a step of development for the internet. Do you even read?
