• Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
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    The saddest part of all this is the countless hours of work unpaid people have poured into the site, moderating, developing, and content creating only to see it end the manner it has.

    I’m okay leaving it behind. I didn’t contribute much over the 12 years I was there. I mostly lurked. I’m just sorry for all the people that worked hard to make the community better.

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      True, but the communities are built around people not the platform. We are once again learning that no platform will be around forever, older people have seen it plenty of times already.

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        older people have seen it plenty of times already

        Spot on. My journey is Usenet->various early web forums->Slashdot->Digg->Reddit, and now I’m here. Been doing this for over 25 years haha.

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            Going to guess you were cruising BBS, FTP, and Telnet sites? I was just an ignorant preteen coding Qbasic garbage trying to learn programming on my Dad’s PC that year. When I read back on Internet history I was a little surprised it was already so active when most people weren’t even aware of it yet.

            At least now I know how Dad got all them free DOS games.

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              Shit, I used to run a WWIV 4.23 BBS back in the day. First modem was 9600 baud. Then 14.4k, 28.8k, and lastly 56k - screaming fast! Nothing like watching boobie pics loading one line at a time…

              Edit: I remember signing up with Prodigy and participating in my very first AMA, with Quark and Dax from DS9. Good times.

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                Man, the nostalgia is real. It was Gopher and Usenet via CIX and Compuserve for me from around '88, and eventually “proper” dial-up via Demon Internet (in the UK) in '92. 9600 baud, 14k4, 28k8, 56k and eventually dual ISDN. I still have a 28k8 modem in a drawer in my PC parts graveyard.