How would you sum that up? 🤔
I think they are putting that in multiple terms, if you ask me. 🤷
If this had been on the birdsite, they could've just done 8008 & nobody would've got the joke
You said 8008 😂
I used to have a pager, and have had a cellphone since the 80's, 1337 🤷
At the risk of dating myself, we used to use L33tsp34k on Wildcat BBSs to avoid certain OPs filters.
We had to change it up a bit though. Not so much a long as a boring story.
was that the one that you had to access via university campus? 🤔
Oh sh*t you don't know me in person, right?
Yeah, got some stories about how we'd register for basket-weaving-type courses & then unregister & the admins had incomplete scripts that didn't disable shell access (wh00ps!).
Another story for another time. Remind me & I'll DM you about it 😁
@Jene_Sais_Quoi @netspionage @ketchup9080 nice to meet you “Electra” my call sign is “Muppet”
@JGNWYRK @netspionage @ketchup9080
Nice to meet you, Muppet! <3
OMG, Noooo way!
You were also on BITNET?
@Jene_Sais_Quoi @netspionage @ketchup9080 Usenet and MuD or MUSHing mostly via vax lab terminal. My pico skills have waned sadly.
@JGNWYRK @netspionage @ketchup9080
I don't remember much from back then, this was roughly circa 1987...?
I have lived a million lifetimes since back then, my memory is not as good as it was, at one time. 😂
My friends boyfriend had set up the network, and thought it would be funny for me to chat with the guys, so he set me up.
Shit, we chatted for hours on that network. 😂
@netspionage @ketchup9080
Did you do that to get a student ID, so you could log on? 😂
Yeah, back in the mid 80's we just went to the University of Washington library and checked out a book, and opened it up, and the all the student IDs of the students who checked it out, were right there, along with the dates of when the book was checked out.
We used those student IDs to log onto BITNET. 😂
my first "internet" name was Electra. 😂