Earlier this year, I received an email with "a virtual gift for your 20 anniversary on LiveJournal". I didn't realise my livejournal was still there, it felt like the past was coming back to haunt me.
I'm in the EU and we're not allowed have Threads yet. It feels like a blessing. By the time we're allowed in, the hype and excitement will have blown over and I'll never have to figure it out. Are you sure the bombardment from brands is a bug and not a feature?
Have this strange ghost memory of maybe getting this email too, but I would have kept it and it isn't there. Surely would have gone to my dead Hotmail account though - hmmm.
While I do think Threads could be quite fun, you're also missing very little. Today I looked again and got about 25 'inspirational quote' type people's posts in a row. No idea who any of them were but my god they clearly have GCSEs in talking inane shite.
Reminds me of 1997: me and my oldest friend feeling like hackers as we worked out how to format our supposedly internal- only work email addresses so we could send cryptic messages about our weekends/love life.
I did CS in college in the mid-90s. The other students had that no-going-back-now! email interface, but we cokputing elites had the luxury of Outlook for Windows 3 1.
Outlook! Maybe that's what they had at Cambridge, the fuckers. Can you remember what the DOS mode type setup would have been called if our computers weren't actually Microsoft ones? I'm really not sure what we were using in the computer room and I want to call it DOS mode but we might have been on other machines?
No idea, I just remember watching my then-girlfriend pressing each key as delicately as someone trying to defuse a bomb. It was worse than using a typewriter, because at least with typed letters you could use tippex
Shoutout to the people extremely active on LiveJournal! Loved that place! My old old LJ was beloved,
Oooh, who were you on there? When was this? Need to know everything.
Earlier this year, I received an email with "a virtual gift for your 20 anniversary on LiveJournal". I didn't realise my livejournal was still there, it felt like the past was coming back to haunt me.
I'm in the EU and we're not allowed have Threads yet. It feels like a blessing. By the time we're allowed in, the hype and excitement will have blown over and I'll never have to figure it out. Are you sure the bombardment from brands is a bug and not a feature?
Have this strange ghost memory of maybe getting this email too, but I would have kept it and it isn't there. Surely would have gone to my dead Hotmail account though - hmmm.
While I do think Threads could be quite fun, you're also missing very little. Today I looked again and got about 25 'inspirational quote' type people's posts in a row. No idea who any of them were but my god they clearly have GCSEs in talking inane shite.
Reminds me of 1997: me and my oldest friend feeling like hackers as we worked out how to format our supposedly internal- only work email addresses so we could send cryptic messages about our weekends/love life.
That is pretty hacky! RESPECT.
This made me laugh so much, so good
I did CS in college in the mid-90s. The other students had that no-going-back-now! email interface, but we cokputing elites had the luxury of Outlook for Windows 3 1.
Outlook! Maybe that's what they had at Cambridge, the fuckers. Can you remember what the DOS mode type setup would have been called if our computers weren't actually Microsoft ones? I'm really not sure what we were using in the computer room and I want to call it DOS mode but we might have been on other machines?
No idea, I just remember watching my then-girlfriend pressing each key as delicately as someone trying to defuse a bomb. It was worse than using a typewriter, because at least with typed letters you could use tippex
Aha so it wasn't just me. She chose delicate care, I chose speed. It's like a Myers-Briggs personality test.