Hacker News Reader

I, too, am old enough to remember monochrome terminals. I don't know if that makes me sad or proud. If you did not live through that era how would you know about that old tech? Cultural references? Responses to comments on HN? :)

I remember our upgrade to 16 colors. That was life changing.

Or amber on black, depending on what what terminals were available in the lab.

As I recall, I coped with Usenet. In some ways, the Internet used to be much better than it is now.

That's because no one cared about the Internet back then. You could read everything interesting on Usenet, refresh rn, have a few new articles, and then...nothing.

The web was the same way, except that we could kill time looking for material for our one-page sites on deformed baby skeletons.

Maybe I just have wider interests, but I never lacked for interesting reading on usenet. And the trolling was better.

I still think gopher was a better way to distribute information. Also, I miss talkd. I'll show my nostalgic self out now.

Read faster. ;>

Trolling was much, much better. There was a delicate obscenity to it that was appreciated by the smaller community.

Once upon a time dialup was all some of us had, 24/7.

Somehow we coped.