I had the same journey but I'm pretty sure I found Slashdot by way of boingboing which I found by way of Diesel Sweeties blog posts when I first got a DSL connection in 2002 and was looking for comics and blogs to fill up my trendy new RSS reader lol
I'd need to shoehorn the Something Awful forums in there somewhere between Fark and Digg.
Same fucking journey as you. Reddit was a good run for 10 years, let's see if Lemmy can work.
You're missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
IRC is STILL running to this day
Journey Before Destination
Do we have a sub on this side yet?
Fuck Moash
The one true constant for me is 4chan 😅
So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.
bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,
by the way, anyone remember Trillian?
I never used it, but I did use similar things like Kopete and Pidgin. Both of those still exist and are still maintained, by the way, albeit far less useful now that the big four instant messaging systems are gone. Of those four, only ICQ still exists, and I doubt it still uses the same protocol, seeing as the old one wasn't encrypted.
for me it was just
reddit --> Lemmy
Do you think this is the end of your "journey"?
BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!
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