Comment by 🚀 AGourd
@norayr I feel that only applies to the every growing number of chronically online children, as a teen myself I have read a plethora of books - just finished reading one yesterday- but it is also true that theres a lot of online content that many people do read. I am one of the insane people that read all of homestuck and theres a sea of fanfic out there but not many people tend to read quality writing online, which is what seems to be a problem with literacy.
As for my friends i know plenty of people have been reading manga instead of watching anime but thats the only books i’ve seen any of them read
Nov 09 · 5 weeks ago
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120 votes were cast.
7 Later Comments ↓
@gdorn Same bracket as you. My Internet experience before 1998 was dial up through a terminal that dumped you into a session running lynx. We lived on gopher and the text based web.
As a high school dropout, I had zero exposure to UNIX and the internet until early Linux distros that took days to download (and pretty much impossible for me to install and maintain, although I tried and failed a few times. Stayed with Windoze XP until finally switching to Linux this century.
I knew about gofer but did not experience it until Lagrange and the Gemini revolution.
Weird, no?
I swear I was using Netscape all the way back on Yggdrasil Linux... must have been 1994? 1995?
You needed an ISP that allowed a TCP/IP connection to make that happen. If you were using terminal dial up you just dropped into a text based connection however the sysadmin set it up.
Ours just let us connect to a session that autostarted lynx and kicked you out if you tried to quit Lynx.
Yeah, my nearest free dialup initially dumped you into a command prompt, from which I figured out how to get a lynx instance on what must have been a VM, even back then. While booting up, it even sent over the BIOS ram test.
But the nearest college had a lab with a couple computers with windows, and they ran Netscape. Must have been about '94?
Ahh crap, who’s the 9 year old that somehow got on here?
Original Post
Gemini Age Survey — As this came up in another thread [gemini link] let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!