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by rovr138 54 days ago
ICQ being first hurts

Thanks to people I met there, I started tinkering more with computers. I had a lot of fun there when everyone else went to sleep.

> "uh-oh." its sound was a generation's text notification before texts existed

Be around me when I get a text... I have gotten some really wild looks when people recognize it. It's a bit of wtf which shifts to woah when it clicks in their head.

Fun chat with CEO last week

...now, the typewriter when you turned on the keyboard sound. Maybe that has to do with why I like mechanical keyboards.

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37292769

Why is that stuck in my brain?

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no QR codes back then

It was just another phone number you had to know.