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[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old...

[-] moody@lemmings.world 10 points 18 hours ago

These days, WAP is something completely different.

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, Wireless Access Point obviously. Duh

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I'm old, so old that I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to indulge an old man?

[-] moody@lemmings.world 7 points 17 hours ago

It's a popular song by Cardi B. WAP stands for Wet Ass Pussy

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

That's right up my alley 🤓

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Right up your WAP or...?

[-] beetus@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?

I don't know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.

Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Because my 15 year older brother got it for Christmas for the family that year. We open gifts on the 24th, which if why I remember it.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 15 hours ago

nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.

Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds...

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Holy. Fuck. I didn't think of that 🤣

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