I feel like most people on Nostr are of the AOL dialup generation. The good ol days of AIM, MSN messenger, yahoo chat
https://www.redringtones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/aol-dial-up-ringtone.jpg
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I'm way before AOL. Cut my teeth on BBSes, then moved on to newsgroups over NNTP. I did have CompuServe but it was $$. Impressed folks with the AP newswire on it.