I'd still telnet, if I didn't have to SSH instead.
Then I'm all FIDOnet this, newsgroups that--no need to keep pretending I'm a youngun.
eta: remember when you could finger people?
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§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:55:01 pm PST #13250 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2010 2:36:43 pm PST #13251 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But telnet was still common when I was in coll--oh, right. Over 30.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 3:07:53 pm PST #13252 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I don't remember using Telnet, but I do remember using Homer and Fetch. And I loved that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty.
meara - Mar 09, 2010 4:05:11 pm PST #13253 of 25501
Yeah, I used telnet in college! Um, up through and past 1999. Some friends went to another school where they still had "plans" on their...whatevers, and you could "finger" them to see what they were up to. It was like facebook statuses, oldschool style, because some people changed that shit all the time, or were mad cryptic, or said where they were headed to...
megan walker - Mar 09, 2010 4:08:06 pm PST #13254 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
you could "finger" them to see what they were up to
Um, seriously?
NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 4:14:03 pm PST #13255 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Oh yeah! I used to finger my friends all the time.
amych - Mar 09, 2010 4:18:20 pm PST #13256 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, it's just as twelve as it sounds.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2010 4:52:22 pm PST #13257 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember 'finger'. Did 'finger' read your .plan file, or something?
I had a .plan (or whatever it was called) once or twice but never did anything with it.
DCJensen - Mar 09, 2010 5:09:29 pm PST #13258 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Oh yes. Telnet, Gopher, WAIS Archie and Veronica searching. NCSA Mosaic, and then also using command line Lynx on my local library dial up.
I also remember discovering I could explore other libraries and universities with the gateways in the library.
I remember just as Mosaic came around that there was a graphic based gopher client, and then a 3d browser I loved. GopherVR, IIRC....
Before that there was fidonet, WWIV BBS, Kermit protocol and... what?
Old.
Consuela - Mar 09, 2010 5:12:20 pm PST #13259 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, I used Gopher and Mosaic. When Netscape was released, the organization I worked at had 200 staff members and only 5 Netscape licenses, so you had to wait for someone else to get offline before you could get online.