Oldschool fediverse phrases, from about 10y ago:
- TZAG: Time Zone Appropriate Greeting (preferred over "good morning")
- TZAF: Time Zone Appropriate Farewell
- #contextpatrol : when someone posted a response which wasn't linked to the original conversation, someone might link the conversation with #contextpatrol (the old StatusNet (ie, GNU Social) interface made not doing this accidentally easily)
- #vaguejokes : an obscure joke that was not really worth or more fun unexplained
Something I also miss: threaded conversations were the norm. Yes, in microblogging! Some of the most intense and interesting conversations about free software philosophy and licensing happened in threads that shot way off to the edge of the page
@cwebber Carl and I have been known to go off on extended :oldmanyellsatcloud: rants about how dial-up BBS software had better thread handling than modern forums and such.
I have occasionally debated about just writing something that will shove everything into QWK packets. Long live yarn: http://www.vex.net/~x/yirx/
you (Karen C) are spot on
in the old days there were First Class and Telefinder
They were BBS systems that used to run on Macintoshes (before MacOsX)
They could run embedded in a GUI only, as it should be
They were waaay better than anything I see today
The freedom number 1 (to run the program) was absolutely guaranteed
And @nightpool this is a screenshot of MacSoup, an email and newgroups client back then
Now tose are threaded conversations !
https://www.google.com/search?q=macsoup&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=8laH016ky3DhUM%253A%252C-Q22qvmGomIVQM%252C_&usg=__f0lDUPjDB_-NhhizEPLLMhSvw3E%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd89z619PbAhWMvhQKHdzED1AQ9QEIOTAC&biw=1280&bih=623#imgrc=8laH016ky3DhUM:
then came twitter and redefined the threaded conversations idea to make it more prone to "engagement" and less to thoughts
this is where we are today
I still sorely miss Eudora, the best email client ever.
The quality of the experience has been consistently worsening since "the web"
