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Elizabeth therian cascadia 🏳️‍⚧️ @Elizafox@treehouse.systems
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Honestly, the best "should I date this person" heuristic for people under 50 is "do you remember using the same version of Windows in your childhood"
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Elizabeth therian cascadia 🏳️‍⚧️ @Elizafox@treehouse.systems
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If you don't rermember using Windows 3.11 or at least Windows 95 or 98, you are probably too young for me. Alternatively, if you remember using Windows 1.0, you're probably way too old for me, and also, why were you using Windows 1.0.
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Elizabeth therian cascadia 🏳️‍⚧️ @Elizafox@treehouse.systems
2mo
Questions I actually legit ask on a date:

"What noise does a modem make?"

"What is a screen saver actually supposed to save?"

"Why did we have a special computer telephone?"

"Have you ever accidentally picked up said telephone and destroyed someone's Internet connection?"

"What did C:\PROGRA~1 mean?"

"Where were you on 9/11?"

"Did you get taught to capitalise the word Internet?"

And the most important one:

"Did you ever use a computer where pressing the power button without first performing the appropriate software ritual felt vaguely illegal?"

(they must respond with: IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER)
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illy [Shrimple-mode] protomoji_orange_flag_lesbian @illyBytes@shrimp.imsofucking.gay
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@Elizafox also for the longest time i thought modems made all the same noise when connecting until i saw a video about the last living modem service in american (that being orange lmfao) where it sounded different than the pop culture AOL sound
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Elizabeth therian cascadia 🏳️‍⚧️ @Elizafox@treehouse.systems
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@illyBytes Oh yeah. Some people got second phone lines for Internet. Professionals got ISDN or even T1 lines (which cost a fortune, only like baller consultants got those).

The Internet was... excruciatingly slow. Even for the time.
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Elizabeth therian cascadia 🏳️‍⚧️ @Elizafox@treehouse.systems
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@illyBytes I remember when I was a kid, up until around 2003ish, I would go to the library to download things, because my school didn't have Internet yet (it was EXTREMELY behind the times actually), and it was the fastest Internet around. They had a T1. Unspeakably fast for the era. I'd use winrar and split things up so they'd fit on floppies.

When my friends got cable Internet, that changed things on an level that's hard to even describe.
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