Still can :)

https://www.beeper.com/

I remember trillian. You might like this -

https://www.beeper.com/

Telnet. An elegant tool for a more civilized time.

I see you, graybeard. And I pay respect.

No, not that I know of. We use to have local / oz only IRC channels, because overseas calls were expensive. So, you would dial into your ISP and then have access to city/state wide IRCs like AusNet. Later that became national. That was circa 94-99.

It was BBS before that.

I remember buying a small black and white TV from a second hand store to watch the 2000 Olympics and chatting to people over mIRC simultaneously.

The TV was sitting right next to a Apple Newton in the store. When I went back to get it, it had already been sold. Ended up buying a palm pilot 1000 instead.

ICQ? Listen here, young man.

I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron.

We did school over HF radio with School of the Air, had no phone lines, and barely reliable electricity.

Do not speak to me of the deep magics. I was there when they were written.

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