BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoI was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square309linkfedilinkarrow-up11.47Karrow-down110
arrow-up11.46Karrow-down1imageI was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.lemmy.worldBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square309linkfedilink
minus-squareSo many dynamos@noc.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month ago@BonesOfTheMoon I was 76474.3012 on Compuserve
minus-squareMehBlah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month ago 76474 Sidney, TX or close by. Its why I never would show mine.
minus-squareMehBlah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe first five digits of mine was a local zip code. Not quite my zip code but less than twenty miles away. I think they may have handed them out from the nearest tymnet node. There was a university there as well.
minus-squareW98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI remember using a program called “Neotrace” to find the general geographic area a user was in based on their IP. That freaked people out in the 90’s.
minus-squareSo many dynamos@noc.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago@MehBlah At the time I lived thousands of miles from there
minus-squareMehBlah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBut now you are back close by? The ID was based on your address. That part was confirmed by someone I know who worked there in the early 90’s.
minus-squareSo many dynamos@noc.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago@MehBlah No, I’ve never lived in TX, so ???
@BonesOfTheMoon I was 76474.3012 on Compuserve
Sidney, TX or close by. Its why I never would show mine.
Wow. Seriously.
The first five digits of mine was a local zip code. Not quite my zip code but less than twenty miles away. I think they may have handed them out from the nearest tymnet node. There was a university there as well.
I remember using a program called “Neotrace” to find the general geographic area a user was in based on their IP.
That freaked people out in the 90’s.
@MehBlah At the time I lived thousands of miles from there
But now you are back close by? The ID was based on your address. That part was confirmed by someone I know who worked there in the early 90’s.
@MehBlah No, I’ve never lived in TX, so ???
Okay. I guess.