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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+.
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.
You think you’re leaving it there to help strangers, you’re really leaving it there to help Reddit Corporate.
If they don’t reverse course by the 30th, I’m nuking my content.
I respect your opinion, it's up to each individual to decide what to do with their content.
I know it's a compromise, I know it doesn't help from the perspective of "fighting the bad guy" but I still believe it's worth it anytime it helps random people.
Help archive Reddit
I know :)
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.
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 :)
To add to your list of chat programs, the pre MSN chat program that came with Windows, followed by Gooey and Odigo
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 :)
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.
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 :)