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simon_brooke, 4 months ago to uk_politics in “Museum of Austerity” tells story of those killed due to punitive UK benefits system

@Fudoshin @DessertStorms the thing that made me cry, when I needed a food bank, was they asked if I had pets and included food for my cats.

There is an awful lot of good in this world.

simon_brooke, 9 months ago to asklemmy in How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?

@NABDad @Provider Usenet was certainly an amazing space, for a long time. It was a lot of my social life from the 1980s until into the 2000s. It slightly predates the Internet, running on UUCP; and indeed I ran a UUCP relay from my home for a time.

I then, in the 1990s and after, ran webservers from home. Yes, I was privileged to do so. The web, too, was a very exciting place in the early days.

simon_brooke, 9 months ago to asklemmy in How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?

@AnonTwo @Provider The happy sound of modems, singing in the morning. Yes, I kind of miss that too.