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Mindly.Social is an English speaking, friendly Mastodon instance created for people who want to use their brains and their hearts to make social networking more social. 🧠💖

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Catherine Berry

Just now I was making a post elsewhere about my having experienced a particular online social evolution pattern "since I was on the ARPANET". Along with my longstanding computer geekery, I'm a huge Tolkien fan, and it struck me that being a developer who used the ARPANET is equivalent to being an elf who lived under the light of the Two Trees in Valinor. In the late Third Age of Middle Earth, or in the 2020s, we are rare, wise, and immensely powerful. 🙂

#tolkien#arpanet#humor
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Carl (He/Him)

@isomeme

I used Bitnet. Does that mean I lived in Numenor?

7leaguebootdisk𓅽

@nitpicking @isomeme I'm a youngin, I only did ftp via email from the DEC server before there was a www client for Mac or Windows, and I did it from fidonet. Yeah, 1 week round trip for each command.

Aug 22, 2023, 02:15 AM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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Catherine Berry

@7leaguebootdisk @nitpicking

I was a FidoNet sysop, and I've missed that culture ever since. The Fediverse is the closest thing to it I've found.

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Carl (He/Him)

@isomeme @7leaguebootdisk

I was a GEnie sysop, back in the day. I still miss the SFRT.

#Genie#SFRT
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