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
An unusual hardware feature of the NES:
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!)
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)