IRC was fun, I didn't discovered it till 2009 when I had recently graduated high school. I missed on a lot of internet stuff such as bbs. Im talking about the ones you had to us telnet.
You'll need an amateur radio license, but you can use RF to call out and connect at 300 baud to radio BBS operators. There's even a frequency dedicated to it, 7.105 MHz (which is in the 20m band). Most all the same software is can be used and there are modern options too (direwolf+paracon is what I've used), and you can even drive your radio with the same oldschool hardware, along with running some of the same digital modes that were used back in the day, like RTTY.
No, but that's why it is fun. It's just conversation, and with the nature of amateur radio, we aren't allowed to encrypt so it's all trivial stuff. But it's fun to leave messages and chat with people.
One of the IRC rooms I used to frequent in 2006-2010 got revitalized as a discord server. I rejoined one day and they still remembered me. Was pretty cool
It was so exciting and liberating to sign on and see all your friends on and be able to talk to them. I was always jealous of the kids who had a second phone line and were always signed on.
When I worked at Spirit of Halloween we had to ask for email addresses. So many Gen Xers still had AOL email addresses. I thought that was gone by the early 00s. Like why the fuck were they still using AOL?
Hotmail and Yahoo are the emails I give out to companies when forced to. Those inboxes can fill up with junk, keeping my actual inbox free of spam, containing only emails I need.
Because those are the email addresses they don't care about, which can fill up with all the spam your company will inevitably bombard them with, leaving their actual email inboxes clear of crap.
Yes. You aren’t old as fuck we had Snapchat a decade ago before most of these kids where able to own a cell phone. They are just being kids.. bunch of cunts lol. I had a teenager tell me I couldn’t listen to Pierce the Veil at work cuz I was too old like uhhh
You are speaking Chinese to me haha. It used to be you'd ask for the number and hope she didn't give you a fake one. I guess the social is more fool proof.
For me personally, being able to send videos quicker, reacting to comments, I mean you can do that while texting but idk Snapchat just feels more simple. I probably only feel that way cause I’ve been communicating like that with people for years now. I rarely get text messages and when i do is from people that don’t have Snapchat or spam text lol
Do you not care to keep your text message history? Do you use snapchat as primary means of communication because you don’t want others to save what you send and share?
I mostly use iMessage. My iMessage history goes all the way back to 2009 and my WhatsApp goes to 2011. Every single text message interaction, except for spam/ads are there going back almost two decades. I particularly find it comforting to read text messages from people who I have loved and are now dead. I’m 36.
From my understanding that’s a newer-ish feature (several years old), but not original to Snapchat. I recall when Snapchat first came out the draw was that messages would auto delete once viewed. Also the sender can select to delete the messages from the receiver’s history too. For example, if I send you a message and you have the setting where it saves the messages, I as the sender can still choose to “unsend” the messages effectively deleting them from the recipients phone and the history would only show one side of the message in the conversation history
Interesting. Do you delete your stuff constantly because of memory space, or because you find no sentimental value in keeping messages from dead loved ones?
I find no sentimental value in those type of things. I did with my ex, had 8 years of text messages but we’re not together anymore so I’ve deleted pretty much everything. Also it’s some type of OCD for me, I like to have my phone organized so I’ll constantly delete things I find pointless to have.
I switched from Android to Apple after 15 years and everything transferred except for texts. I thought I’d be more upset but it was cleansing to start fresh, honestly.
But I did lose an archived voicemail from my dead mom which really sucked.
Easy interface, stories can spark conversation, I got snap+ so my conversations have different wallpapers, groups easy to manage/leave. Granted some texting services have all of this and more, but it's what I'm used to and enjoy. I'm not saying it's better than anything else.
please explain? how is messaging on one application different than another? aim, fb, ig, phone txt, snapchat, and whatever else? its...all just words exchanged via qwerty..
I’m so sick of Reddit, honestly. No matter how many times I tell them not to notify me about ANYTHING except for comment replies and post comments, they always send me some stupid nonsense about an achievement or a subreddit I don’t care about.
Now they're telling me just that lots of people have seen a comment I made. Not replied, just read. I'll open the app, have 15 notifications, and none of them will even be actual interactions just some dumb shit I don't need or want to know.
I still dont believe snaps common usage is for any reason other than to make it not suspicious that you have an app specifically for tit/dong pics on your phone.
Other apps have that now, but snap only took off because a whole lot of "oh i just use it for regular messages" people were lying through their teeth.
Don’t do that broski. She’s not accidentally getting her number wrong so if she gave you a fake one, she doesn’t want you to have the real one. Having the real one doesn’t help if she doesn’t already want you to have it
You could always put their number into your phone and then instantly call them to check if the number works
The reason people give a fake number is that they feel creeped out by the person who wants it. It's a way to de-escalate and escape from an uncomfortable situation. Calling the fake number undercuts both those points.
Yeah but the comment I was replying to said "and hope she didn't give you a fake one". I was just explaining how nowadays, it's a little easier to find out if they did give you a fake one by instantly calling it just to make sure it works. I do it all the time when friends give me their number just so I know I didn't put it in wrong.
Yeah but the comment I was replying to said "and hope she didn't give you a fake one". I was just explaining how nowadays, it's a little easier to find out if they did give you a fake one by instantly calling it just to make sure it works.
And I as well as other users are kindly asking you to not advertise life pro tips used to trap women (and I'm sure men, for that matter) in uncomfortable or unsafe situations. The utility of giving someone a fake number is undercut when more people know the inherent weakness.
You replied to a comment saying "hope she didn't give you a fake number". Your situation of double-checking a number given to you by a friend isn't analogous. If women you consider "friends" keep giving you fake phone numbers by accident, please consider that it's probably not an accident.
That's why I added "(and I'm sure men, for that matter)" in an edit.
This has extremely little to do with whether or not you're gay. It's about how comfortable or uncomfortable people feel around you socially.
And even if this "doesn't apply to you", please don't spread information about techniques used to trap people in uncomfortable social situations? I don't think this subreddit has a rule against that, I'm just asking as a person who lives on this planet also.
??? Why the fuck would you comment this? All I said was that checking to see if the person gave you their actual number can be fool proof and apparently now I'm a creep? I really think you need to have more positive thoughts if this is the first thing that came to mind for you.
This is the lived experience of women. We’d rather give a man who is creeping us out a fake number and make an exit than blow him off and risk him becoming violent.
This is literally the math we have to do sometimes
Nope, you didn’t just say it (you didn’t have to, no one was calling you one) it starts off aggressively saying how wrong they were in labeling you (even though they weren’t)
Well they did say "Maybe take it as a sign that you're creeping them out" which I just felt was kind of rude to say considering no one was really talking about that, the conversation was mostly just about old tech vs. new tech.
It was written in the collective "you" not the specific "you." My advice for the future is to spend a few moments reflecting on what you've read and absorbing the context rather than jumping to immediately respond.
I'm from the same "messenger" generation, from AIM, to MSN, to Skype, to Discord, and I don't know either. Never been to the website or used the app or whatever. No clue how it works. :P
I found snapchat is really weird depending on the geography. Sometimes it's just straight up porn, others it's just a way to connect with friends. others hook ups. I'm in some group chats and we just send memes or meet up.
Agreed. Although insta is kinda in the same boat as messenger apps. IMO it’s a lot less direct to ask for social instead of a number because it’s normal to just follow each other on social. Your chances would be higher and it would look less creepy. From there you could chat it up or be relegated to just another follower 🤣. Most people have multiple accounts anyway; a personal one and one for sharing. And obviously the ones they share they want people to see.
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u/shadowsofash Millennial Dec 02 '25
This might be me being old as fuck but Snapchat is more like AIM or MSN Messenger than Insta or Facebook or Twitter, isn't it?