Deleted Twitter


Back in the 1980's we didn't have snapchat, twitter, powerful smartphones, high speed communications, tinder, craigslist...you name it. I am the last of the generation who grew up without Facebook. Back then, the computer nerds like me owned things like Commodore 64's with 1200 baud modems, Amiga 500's with 2400 baud ones... hell my buddy Dave had a hayes HST modem, then a 56K bitch.

We'd gather together with other guys and gals to illegally copy software amongst us. Games were expensive back then, averaging 40$ per title in 1980's money ($91.71 in today's cash). We'd pirate until 3 in the goddamn morning, using hardware and software tools to copy everything and anything. Software protection wheel? We'd copy that bitch. Special glasses to read the codes? Photocopied with a filter. I don't think there was any game that we couldn't copy illegally. At one point I think  I had 500 goddamn floppy disks full of porn, games, and programs.

There were no singles ads except the ones where they sound like this:

Single White Male seeking fit woman aged 20-30 with no kids and must love bdsm play.

Life was not simpler back then. It took more work to communicate with people. I couldn't snapchat or text a buddy when I was bored. I'd actually have to go drive or phone them.

I joined Twitter in 2010 of July. I was never into social media very much, and I found facebook and linkedin to be equally annoying & useless.

A couple of years ago I deleted all 12,000 tweets and likes from Twitter. Then last year I decided to go thermo nuclear and completely annihilate my tweets. No history. No images. Replies are gone.

I deactivated Twitter and don't really give a flying fuck.

 

Comments

WpgCameraMan said…
Brave. I'm probably gonna delete my Facebook.
I say we find some old C64's and load up chat software on those.. I miss those days too. We got old, life fucked us in the ass. Left us with aches & pains, hair loss and bad knees.
Stoneman said…
8 years was enough for me. Now Twitter is just full of trolls and racist assholes. Except for you, Dave, and another few of my follows.

I don't know if I'll ever be back. There is nothing to gain from it.

I approve the comments here so just wait a bit until I get the e-mail if you do reply later.
WpgCameraMan said…
I've been somewhat withdrawn the past few months, I'm hoping soon come to a resolution on a certain matter and then I can get my head back in the game.

We should look at getting some solid-state C64's and get a BBS up again. I wrote .. I think the 2nd.. BBS I ran, all in Basic. It was pretty good, had Kermit for files... gawd, if I had the storage back in those days...

I don't have any old disks from the day... Highly doubt it....

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