• @[email protected]
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    I was confused watching Reading Rainbow because I didn’t understand how a blind man could be reading to me.

    Lil bonus, I know first hand why floppy disks are called that, but only because my dad had some old games.

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      Did you have the little switch screwed into the back of your set to go from “TV” to “GAME” ?

      also, I came here to post “Atari 2600” but I’ll leave it in this comment instead :P

    • @[email protected]
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      Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.

      Even though I don’t use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Fun fact:

          Not all services that use “sign in with google” will respect that, though most will

          Backblaze immediately comes to mind as one that always makes me include the dot or it gets pissy

          • naticus
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            43 months ago

            When I played with AWS way back before it became the behemoth it is, I used it to simply store a few small things, like my Keepass DB. I then deleted it.

            So my fun fact: if you ever had an account with AWS and delete it, you can never use that same exact email again. So I went from [email protected] to [email protected] and have had that AWS account for way longer than the original.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            Yeah that’s signing in, so your username must match. There are reasons why you should not use sign in with Google, mostly to do with security and privacy. In which case you can sign up for an account using as many or as few dots as you like.

            For just receiving mail this works universally.

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              If someone has the email account password your security is already fucked. If they don’t then there’s no way to pop your oauth unless the client is shit. If the client is shit you shouldn’t give it your credentials.

              SSO is not a security vuln.

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          13 months ago

          Yeah but it used to not be ignored so now me and this random person with my name basically share an email address. We don’t get each other’s emails all that often somehow. We first chatted years ago when I got an important email for a job she applied for (soon after they started ignoring the dots), and she seemed decent so I didn’t change it. Definitely a huge risk but here we are.

    • socsa
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      I still have [religious figure]@gmail.com

      The account is completely overrun with spam. And there are about 20 people who seem to think it is their actual email address and I get like legit power bills and stuff on it.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        I essentially had godXXX but my friend got offended so I changed the password to something random and stopped using it

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      13 months ago

      For me, gmail beta in college. Also my first gmail account got banned for sending myself too many invites to make more accounts… to make GameFAQs accounts. >___>

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          23 months ago

          It was probably the frequency. There was a point in time that I was making a bunch of comedic GameFAQs alts, and I probably did too many emails too fast. I didn’t think there would be consequences! Lol

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    353 months ago

    My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)OP
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      203 months ago

      i can’t imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar

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    I saw the original Star Wars in theaters.

    • @[email protected]
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      I grew up with the Star Wars trilogy on VHS box set and phantom menace was one of my first movies in a theatre.

  • db0
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    Old enough to have seen the fall of USSR but not old enough to understand its significance at the time.

  • @[email protected]
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    I used to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up enough conventional memory to get my games to run.