Yes, the differences are fascinating, I know Minitel was big in France. To my mind it was Freeserve that brought the internet to the masses in the UK (and spawned many dozens of similar ISPs in the late-90s), but seems to be a bit of a footnote now. My peers first started messaging through YIM (Yahoo! Instant Messenger) before MSN took over as the default. I remember AOL was perceived as an expensive ISP which limited the popularity of AIM.
Is this mainly a US-centric take though? In the UK, yes we had AOL here and a fair number of people I knew had it, but it was never dominant as far as I could tell (I'd be happy to be corrected, I only came in around 1997). It was MSN messenger that became established as the dominant instant messenger here by about 2000, I don't really remember too many people using AIM.
My parents would send me to school with peanut butter and Marmite sandwiches. Slightly annoying that just because there's a ready-mixed version that people are now acting like it's a new thing, but at least more people get to experience it.
All other pizzas are worse than pineapple on pizza.
Now I wonder if pineapple, beans, and sausage would work.
Honestly that sounds not much different to when I was at school, in the UK, 30 years ago, especially when it comes to supply teachers.
Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn't I'd struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).
Downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, we don't see them even on communities on other instances. I find it makes it a much more pleasant experience.
They deteriorate with time but that said I have tapes from the 80s that are still playable. I'm not sure if there's a worse rate for that timespan compared to disc-rot for CDs, or failures of digital drives. What ever the format I guess the key is to do backups.
OpenSUSE, it's what I'd be using if Fedora didn't exist.
It was Red Hat Linux 8.0 (not to be confused with RHEL 8), I think, that I first dabbled in Linux, that was around early 2003, and then I moved on to Fedora Core 1. But I went exclusively-Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) in 2006.
I've moved around since then but for the last 5 years I've ended up back on Fedora, where I've been since version 28, now version 39.
Although I don't use them day-to-day any more, cassette tapes are what I have the most warmth and nostalgia for because they're what I grew up with. Messing around with tapes and making mix-tapes were a big part of my childhood and teenage years, difficult to sell to those who never experienced it but I can't think of any other format that allowed that same level of playfulness and creativity.
"Square one" sounds good to me!
I'm surprised at that, from my experience I think it's still more normal than not to have analogue clocks at home, and I would always prefer an analogue watch.
It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don't know how to manage files.
I think you're right then, and honestly I can't say I've noticed.
VLC because it works with everything and it doesn't try to organise my music collection for me.
I've never heard of sugarcoating pills, is it a US thing maybe?