this is where millennials have a huge advantage coming of age as the internet was - ThreadSky

brianmfloyd.bsky.social • 61 days ago

this is where millennials have a huge advantage coming of age as the internet was

unleashing social media on the world at large was like inflicting smallpox on immunologically naive peoples. Only psyches scarred over by endless stupid flamewars on usenet or IRC were truly ready for it

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greenakers.bsky.social•61 days ago

Looking into restoring my house's dialup until my youngest kid is like 15, that's all the access their smooth little brains should have tbh

wagesofben.bsky.social•61 days ago

i told u i was hardcore

dktrstrangelove.bsky.social•61 days ago

Solid Gen Xer here. Hanging out in rec.arts.mst3k and alt.religion.scientology in the mid-90s were my training grounds, Joel vs Mike and samizdat OTIII were my missions.

jonesm80.bsky.social•61 days ago

I think that inoculation might have only been good for those born between '75 and '90.
I've got too many cousins from outside that range that continually fall for the dumbest shit.
Meme coins and MLMs litter the family facebook group.

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

yep it’s a very specific window that ends right around then. if you had to dial up to yell at someone on the internet you get it. if not, well…

stevenspoints.bsky.social•61 days ago

I think you can extend it a couple more years into the 90s. The way I’d probably set the cutoff is anybody too young to sign up for Facebook when it opened to the public, which would put the end of the birth year range at 1993.

rodger.bsky.social•61 days ago

that phrasing puts into words a thing I've been thinking about a lot lately. I know it's easy to say "I was born at the exact right time" but spending your whole life online or having online thrust upon you mid-adulthood both seem awful

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

especially now. at least then it was a bunch of portal websites and in order to get to the stupid stuff you had to know what you were doing. now it’s all way too accessible

vumander.bsky.social•61 days ago

We never recovered from https://StumbleUpon.com

jasonkirk.fyi•61 days ago

I think all the time about being the only people who’ll ever know what it’s like to always be online as a kid AND to never be online as a kid

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

mastering the art of the away message because we couldn’t take our computer in our pockets

danny.page•61 days ago

or having to turn the internet off because someone wanted to make a call

espnbillc.bsky.social•61 days ago

Got my first email address when I was a freshman in college and had to visit the computer lab to check it. Honestly that’s about how it should’ve been.

rodger.bsky.social•61 days ago

We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it

maybeacrook.bsky.social•61 days ago

Smh these new games are all pay to win nowadays

sciencesloth.bsky.social•61 days ago

These threads have me thinking about me and the boys sneaking a Counter Strike.exe onto a shared folder of the school district network for LAN matches during study hall. Not possible without a few high XP kids at the right moment in lax network security standards.

djgriff.bsky.social•61 days ago

This is a great analogy

davidfucillo.bsky.social•61 days ago

Mine was midway through high school, which felt appropriate. Freshman and sophomore years had no internet. Junior year I got my first email address. Nothing was ever the same.......

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

welcome to college, here is one (1) internet for you

shealagh.bsky.social•61 days ago

I worked at a computer lab check-in desk as a work study job and it now seems both quaint and like a totally necessary thing that you’d need to go through a couple steps to have internet access outside your house

dfsingleton.bsky.social•61 days ago

Same, man. Same.

espnbillc.bsky.social•61 days ago

I guess that makes sense since you were in my first freshman class, huh…

dfsingleton.bsky.social•61 days ago

Yeppers.

nursedrew.bsky.social•61 days ago

I was thinking about my Hotmail address I got as a junior in HS that I could use in study hall. My password was lifehouse as I really liked the song hanging by a moment. This should show you kids ain’t ready for all the internet has to offer.

sciencesloth.bsky.social•61 days ago

People make dumb passwords in general, I wouldnt hold that against kids readiness for using the internet. The fact that yours wasn’t password is already a leg up on 90% of *adults* both when you made that account and today.

chicagolawyer.bsky.social•61 days ago

I had an English teacher in sixth grade (‘93) who thought if we learned one thing, it should be that you can trust what’s in print. Can’t imagine a worse lesson for today’s world.

larp-storyteller.bsky.social•61 days ago

the idea of a split online and real world identity essentially died ten years ago and now you have folks living like they are online at all times

kevin-hackett.bsky.social•61 days ago

god damn

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

you wanted to pick fights with people on irc, that’s great your ip is right there and people have commands that can wipe you off the server forever for being a dumbass

scottwithrage.gobirds.online•61 days ago

I feel like there's something about the internet changing from horny to horny and volcanically angry.

sciencesloth.bsky.social•61 days ago

Millennials had the gorilla warfare copypasta happen to us every time we started an argument as dumbass teenagers on IRC.

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

old internet, usenet and irc also prepares you for what’s happening today, where belligerent mods or server owners having a mental health episode and doing some wild shit was a normal tuesday. except they were normal people working a 9-5 and not the richest guy in the world

josephvw.bsky.social•61 days ago

This is why all those people talking about fighting to stay on Twitter were wrong. No, once an asshole becomes the owner by default cause they kept their PC on all night while everyone logged off, we just go start a new channel

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

whoops server split because bob was being an asshole and now we live here and bob is an asshole on his own server

jslandau.cc•61 days ago

Forums taught us that if we talked some shit, the other person was going to dig up some stupid-ass post we made from years ago with a “this u?”

moman.bsky.social•61 days ago

BBSes were the same way. Someone is ruining the Pirate’s Cove TradeWars game? Fine, I’ll set up my own server or fins a new place to go and create a breakaway republic

geoffoneil.bsky.social•61 days ago

this right here:
https://bsky.app/profile/brentosaur.bsky.social/post/3liwrumtb6k2r

r3fugiado.bsky.social•61 days ago

Millennials grew up in a world where "don't believe what you find on the Internet" was a mantra. These days.... "doing my own research" = find people as stupid as me. It's not working....

coolsportsguy69.bsky.social•61 days ago

It’s funny (sad/scary) that it’s often the same people who said the former that are now doing the latter

poops69.bsky.social•61 days ago

Alas, the adults who told us not to believe everything on the internet are the ones falling for every hoax on Facebook.

noahgrand.bsky.social•61 days ago

My posting game is still weak, but those years on IRC as a Magic the Gathering judge running tournaments from my parents’ house sure comes in handy.

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•61 days ago

anyone that can survive irc is prepared for all the internet can throw at them

buxtonaut.bsky.social•61 days ago

The real life amount of escalation theory data and self taught sysadmin-ery that came from the /slap command is unimaginable.

noahgrand.bsky.social•61 days ago

Yup. I’m part of a Discord admin team now and the only one from that generation. It sure shows!

leboff.co•61 days ago

We're the only generation that knows how to use computers at all!

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