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I feel weirdly subversive surfing the fediverse. Like I'm on the dark web or some shit, lol. I mean I know it's different.

But it also kind of feels like Bluesky is the user-friendly AOL version of fediverse social networking (I think? They're decentralized, aren't they? But... Yeah.)

Also also it's weird to me that so many people who were all about BBS waaaaaay back in the day are like "Nah, I'm done trying new Internet things" and have just camped out on Facebook. Facebook suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. It's sucked for sooooo loooooooooong.

So I'm here and I'm not even that tech savvy. I just have tech savvy friends who are kind enough to help me figure shit out. Who were also once BBSers.

Also tangentially connected there's a new clone of old school Geocities called Neocities? So my Internet life has officially come full circle (or will have, if I ultimately create a gaudy website on the platform. Which, let's be real, I'm probably gonna do.)

in reply to Crys Wolf

@Crys Wolf We BBSers were such a tiny slice of time before everything was Internet. It now feels like a precious experience granted to very few people.
in reply to Susan Rati Lane

@Susan Rati Lane I actually never had an opportunity to use bulletin boards. My father did, and I heard a lot about them, but he wouldn't let me get online until they got AOL.
in reply to Crys Wolf

LOL. So you're a BBSer by association? Per and I are the bona fide real thing 😆.

Yeah, it really was only a few years when message boards were bound by telephone lines.

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