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You might be an Internet Ancient if you: 

• remember Netscape Navigator

• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower

• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal

• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB

• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster

• used the web before Google existed

• ever used a dialup BBS site

• remember Gopher

• ever downloaded music as .mod files

• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them

• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites

• know IRC commands

• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"

• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make

• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one

[1.Ch.] Wireless Keyboards 

I'm disappointed, but somehow not surprised.

I didn't even know there was an International Non-binary Day! 

About two decades ago, I opted out of binary gender and attempted to take on zie/zir pronouns. I really wanted to see non- and other-genderedness be recognized. I kept with this for quite some time despite a lot of social pushback. Still, after a while my anxiety got the better of me. I settled on she/her. But I definitely gave up on gender internally, and I would say as much. ("You're a woman, right?" "Ennh... *shrug*")

At some point within the last few years I saw the rise in folks using they/them and decided it was time to try again. I've settled in comfortably!

So, thanks to all you other non-binary types out there! Even if individually we couldn't all keep up the struggle, our collective efforts are showing real motion... and some of us who'd nearly given up are optimistic again. (And helping push!)

[1.Ch.] Seeking PoC, Women/NBs, LGBTQ Senior SDEs/SREs :boost_requested: 

Hey, folks! My company is still actively hiring for senior SDEs and SREs! If you're good to work in a Go/JS/k8s/AWS environment, DM me and I'll send you my work email address.

:boost_requested:

This is the Setun computer

It was developed in 1958 at Moscow State University

It used ternary logic with a balanced ternary numeral system (which is to say, -1, 0, 1)

basically: NON BINARY COMPUTER FOR NONBINARY DAY! :flag_nonbinary:

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, world events, Cannabis 

Y'know that part in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Ford Prefect tells Arthur Dent to drink 3 pints at lunch as necessary muscle relaxant to help endure the trials to come?

*hugs their vape pen*

TIL Photoshop needs a lot of memory to edit a 386 megapixel multi-layer image. That's as many as 404,619,264 pixels! And that's terrible.

And my laptop is very, very warm right now.

[1.Ch.] Shit What Keet Says 

"This isn't a speedrun; more of a speedstumble...."

me: Hey, I'm feeling good and ready to do a thing. I can start in on my creative writing project! I have focus!

neighbor: We shall see! revs weed-whacker

In Spanish, if you end a sentence with the 🙂 emoji, you have to start it with the 🙃 emoji

I wonder if the LEGO Group realizes that if you switch their hair they become lesbians

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