Post #846341
2025-03-27 15:50 UTC
Replies (16)
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@serge@babka.social 2025-03-27 16:36
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk Unless those refugees are Jews, then it's basically like being on Twitter or Facebook circa 2017.
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@TheLancashireman@hostux.social 2025-03-27 16:37
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 56k modem? Luxury! When I were a lad ... 🙃
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@PizzaDemon@mastodon.online 2025-03-27 17:35
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk When Kermit wasn't just a frog Parity was not about dominance in sports leagues Norton commanded the'verse And HP products and corporate culture were admired
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@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 2025-03-27 19:43
@Oggie@woof.group @PizzaDemon@mastodon.online Exactly! The printers! So good! Meanwhile my laptop before this one was an HP because there were no suitable Asuses (Asusii??) when I came to buy one. When it got stolen from my car I was annoyed, because expense, and hammering a new Windows machine into shape always takes about a fortnight, BUT I was also sniggering at the fact that someone was now trying to use my piece of shit HP machine that had been crap since I bought it.
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@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 2025-03-27 19:59
@Oggie@woof.group @PizzaDemon@mastodon.online Yeah, it was a bit of a gut punch at the time, but fortunately I have a bunch of spare former laptops knocking around (probably like the rest of the seafarers) and a good backup, so I was up and working again after a couple of hours. New laptop arrived a few days later (Asus – I learned that particular lesson) and overall it was a positive experience. (Could have done without a sudden and unexpected massive car repair two weeks later, but hey ho.)
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@kerravonsen@mastodon.au 2026-03-28 08:12
@Oggie@woof.group @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @PizzaDemon@mastodon.online My HP LasetJet 1200 is STILL WORKING!
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@jake4480@c.im 2025-03-27 18:01
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 😂🤣😂
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2025-03-27 18:09
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk That's not the list of things a real old timer on the Internet would bring up. We would talk of goats from Christmas Island, girls hanging out in tubs, and the sharing of cups. That is, we would...if the filters didn't instantly block such conversations.
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@rogerggbr@mastodon.org.uk 2025-03-27 18:29
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk those were the days
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@culper@infosec.exchange 2025-03-27 18:38
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk All that, and finding a new BBS that was within your local calling area. Better yet finding out that a new ISP was in your town and they had much better service then your current ISP
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@RussSharek@mastodon.art 2025-03-27 18:54
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk I feel so seen.
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@Raeyn@toot.cat 2025-03-27 18:58
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk I like to remind people of the lil green on green chat boxes you'd plug into the phoneline from the 80s. Because that was a thing. xD And remembering when my parents upgraded from 14k to 56k and the computer not even know what the math to do with it. But also, BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBEEEEEEEE
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2025-03-27 19:12
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk It me. :)
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@bmp@hachyderm.io 2025-03-27 19:13
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk You can tell us from the others because, when we want you to be quiet, we simply write +++, and then wonder why it fails
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@mrcopilot@mstdn.social 2025-03-27 19:15
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk Yay though I witnessed its birth, baby steps and adolescence, I yet hope to see it grow through to some semblance of maturity. Nice to meet your acquaintance. Kindly avoid the lawn. etc.
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@danstark@mastodon.social 2025-03-27 19:15
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk Christmas, 1979. I wore out my pong paddle and got an upgrade!