• 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    4 days ago

    And for people who might be impressed, a 7 digit ICQ number proves they aren’t really old school.

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        I do. In fact as part of the reddit exodus, and the shut down of hardocp, I found myself going over there more often as part of my “scan of the internet”.

        six digits here , loooooowwww six digits.

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          Nice. Too bad Slashdot doesn’t show the date an account was created. I would like to what year I made mine, Around 30,000 so I know it’s pretty early, but would that be '98, '99,or '00?Don’t know. My Fark profile was created 2002.

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            I would bet 98-99? I have no real insight into the numbers, just a guess. Fark frontpage days were pretty 👍

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      What about my Fark account number being a low 6 digit number (It would have been lower, but I just lurked for a year first)?? Or how far I got in various MUDDs on my local BBS?? I need someone to recognize my internet clout!! My gmail account is my name with no numbers.

      I played YAHOO! Games, god damnit, and used Dogpile to search Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Excite, HotBot, and AltaVista!!!1!!!

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        My ISP (run by a jerky company) kept its BBS running until the mid-90s just for us still playing the MUDDs.

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      I’m a bit older younger (don’t post right before falling asleep, kids!), but this reminds me of back when people used to shame people with 8 digit SteamIDs, because they were obviously noobs, compared to 7 digit people, and of course the 6 digit people.

      Bwah, my 7 digit one starts with a 0, yours starts with 8, [insert various slurs]!

      And now the entire format has been through I think like 3 total revisions or something?