I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […] - ThreadSky

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy • 13 days ago

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

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suzka.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

@jascha https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton I remember this Internet! Miss her terribly

johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha I <3 this story - thank you for sharing

xs4me2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha

Simply wonderful!

Thanks for sharing.

slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha This is wonderful. ❤️

Lily-and-frog.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha

Sometimes I'm sad at how this time didn't last long and wonder how it has been lost.

And I'm slowly realising it hasn't been lost but stolen and it makes me angry.

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> her mother had died, her dad was still in grief. She had a twin sister.

I don’t know what made us take care of her online. We were there. We listened when she talked about here grief, her pain and how alone she felt. We do our best.

Then came the day where she told us that her dad demands […]

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> In a mood I said „well, we could come.“ Tje rest agreed - we could come.

„But what should I say to my dad?“ - I suggested „I have some people I want to invite. My friends from the internet“. I did not really think that she said this to her father. It was a bad joke I thought. Well, little […]

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> We all said „we‘ll come!“ and so it happened that 15 adults went to a 16th birthday party.

We coordinated in another channel that she did not know that we bought presents, mad cake and planned games. And of course a cake fight.

The day came. Several cars arrived at the house and Metall […]

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> We had so much fun and made her day. We laughed more than her sister with her „cool friends“. We were the perfect guests. We played games, we laughed. SHE laughed. Later she said the first times for months.

We just were us. Of course we did not drink ir take drugs. Of course we did not swear […]

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> and today, ca. 20 years later, we still talk every now and then. We are still part of her life.

6 years ago she was living in Paris, had a boyfriend in Berlin. She was visiting him for her birthday. He called her when Tage arrived in Berlin at the airport and told her that this relationship […]

jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

>> at the end she had a a few decent days with some fun and could fly home and was not totally desperate.

She could call at 3 in the morning and I would write into an IRC channel that she needs us and we would everything we could do to be there. And she would do the same for us.

And that is […]

donw.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha I’m still on a mailing list with a bunch of people who I met on a mailing list in… 1994? Give or take a few years. Nominally it’s for a MBTI personality type but it’s really just because we’ve all now been friends thirty years.

maxheadroom.hub.uckermark.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@jascha aww this is so great. Now I have something in my eyes too. Thank you!

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