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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 05:21:14 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Where were you?

   I was before the graph started.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:07:47 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Steffani Cameron

     @snarkysteff I started on an acoustic coupler 300 baud modem in '82. You'd watdh a message come in l....e.....t.....t....e....r by letter, drip drip drip. Email was suspenseful!

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     Steffani Cameron (snarkysteff@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:07:48 JST Steffani Cameron

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     @jimcarroll I've been online since BBSes of 1986, and on the web since 1996. 1200 baud modems were the big big news when I first started!

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:09:37 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • billheywood

     @billheywood I'd been on e-mail for 15 years by that point. I've kept most of what I've sent and received since 1983.(-;

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     billheywood (billheywood@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:09:38 JST billheywood

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     @jimcarroll
     1998

     I had an email address before that, but it wasn't much use

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:22:06 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Eric G.

     @ericg Back at ya ... I was something like !mail.uunet.ca!jacc!uucp!jacc.com!jcarroll

     But I was also for a time, I also existed in X.400 land as:

     [UN=JA.CARROLL@THORNE.ERNST.WHINNEY]ENVOY100/CANADA

     And once I saw what we could do with something like jcarroll@jimcarroll.com .... I knew the future was sealed.

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     Eric G. (ericg@sanjuans.life)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:22:07 JST Eric G.

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     @jimcarroll Hello from {ihnp4,harpo,ucscc}!sco!ericg

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:23:11 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Lari Lohikoski

     @lari Gopher, Archie, WAIS!

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     Lari Lohikoski (lari@suomi.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 06:23:12 JST Lari Lohikoski

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     @jimcarroll In 1992 I joined a computer club with the only purpose to get an (internet) email account and an access to Usenet news. They provided an unix shell, but didn't have a permanent internet connection, so messages were exchanged with rest of the Internet just a few times a day. A year later in 1993 I started at the university, and finally got a full internet access, with Gopher, ftp and everything!

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     Spectral_Shadow (spectral_shadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:34:51 JST Spectral_Shadow

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     @jimcarroll after reading the toots of this toot I feel ...so younger

     Well as a person from ex-comminist country I experienced it around 1998 in Timișoara!

     But started using it Around ~2002

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:35:53 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

     @wrog

     You've got me beat. I was on uucp about 86 ...

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     Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔ (wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:35:54 JST Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

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     @jimcarroll

     Rather a lot depends on definitions. Do we start with the current DNS (1985, when .com/.org/.edu/.net got rolled out) Or adoption of IPv4?

     My brother got his first Arpanet account in 1978; mine was 1984. I sent my first email in 1982 but it was via UUCP.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:56:43 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

     @wrog I just joined!

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     Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔ (wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 09:56:44 JST Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

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     @jimcarroll

     well, if you want to feel like a *real* youngster, there's always this group

     https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts

     which seems to be where all of the people who predate *me* by 10+ years ended up.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 01:15:55 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Tito Ciuro

     @titociuro Yup.

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     Tito Ciuro (titociuro@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 01:15:56 JST Tito Ciuro

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     @jimcarroll According to History.com, “On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy-to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.”
     Did you use Arpanet before 1993?