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[–] david@quo.ink 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.

bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,

[–] SirShanova@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

IRC thrives! The dusty corners of the internet where people continue to develop the most obscure software functioning as an unknown pillar of the internet still have IRC channels available to discuss and interact.

[–] peanutyam@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah some of those I had forgotten! For me it was usenet, IRC, ICQ, Yahoo Chat Rooms (I was one of the kids that dropped booters and other pesky little bots and hacks into them all the time 😂 - I’m still friends to this day with someone I met via Yahoo Chatrooms though!) Definitely used Trillian, and the old phpBB forums before I found Reddit over 10 years ago…and now Lemmy

[–] Jaysue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still remember my icq number lol.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Same. I logged in to their icq web client recently for shits. Was a trip to see all the old usernames.

[–] Lycan@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oekaki drawing boards ಥ⁠╭⁠╮⁠ಥ Oh how I miss thee...

[–] Hellebert@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made an irc client in MIRC using MIRC script before it had multi-server capability and thought I was so smart and then a few months later they released the update with it in it. Oh well, it was fun at the time!