Hello Fediverse! ⚓
I joined Mastodon because I miss the "old internet" feel where you could actually get to know someone through a long-form exchange. I’m a fan of details, technical specs, and hearing about people's lives from different corners of the globe.
Give me a follow if you like ocean views, boat talk, or just want a pen pal who actually writes back.
#Introduction #NewHere #OceanSurveyor #StuartFlorida #Maritime #LongForm
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Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Mike Sullivan • • •hello Mike and welcome to the Fediverse! Given your interests, I think you'll fit right in over here - this online space definitely reminds me of the original promise of the internet.
Pinging a fellow boat enthusiast: @jan
Have a great day!
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹
in reply to Mike Sullivan • •@Mike Sullivan
What do you mean by "old Internet"? Because for some people is 10 years ago, for me is the beginning of '90es 😁
Mike Sullivan
in reply to Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹 • • •@max I’m talking about the days of Gopher holes, USENET groups, and BBS boards where you actually had to know the 'address' of where you were going. There was no search engine holding your hand.
What was your first rig? I remember my first 'portable' setup, it weighed about as much as a boat anchor and had less processing power than a modern toaster, but it felt like magic when that first connection clicked into place.
Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹
in reply to Mike Sullivan • •@Mike Sullivan
I got an account to my university datacenter, all what I had was a green VT100 connected to some UNIX machine.
I got that account to study C language, UNIX and its tools (awk, sed...).
Then I discovered IRC and my life changed 😁
Then Internet arrived at home too a year or two later, with my IBM compatible 386 and my 14400 modem. A couple of evenings a week I connected the modem to the home phone line and I downloaded/uploaded mail messages.
Browsing the web happened a bit later 😁
tofe
in reply to Mike Sullivan • • •Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
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