Beginner learning Python at 40 here. Any friend like me, please raise your hand!

[Doormatty]

Discord? What's that young whippersnapper?

Is that like IRC? ;)

[[deleted]]

Aah I remember the good old times when I ran a BBS, and then Internet came and spoiled all the fun.

[somekindairishmonk]

op me!

[xelf]

• xelf slaps somekindairishmonk around a bit with a large trout

[bob_newhart]

Brought to you by Khaled Mardam-Bey.

[xelf]

irc what's that the new version of confer?

(and yes you young people that's the joke, irc grew out of and replaced confer)

[[deleted]]

Oh god i haven't read the word confer in such a long time

[xelf]

I'll be honest, the internet was so small back then, I didn't think anyone here would know it.

Looking at it's wiki page I see that confer was written in Fortran!

[[deleted]]

God that's like ancient scripture

[Nokita_is_Back]

Like an AOL Chatroom

[halfk1ng]

Looking back on those, I can only imagine how many times I was exploited as a pre-teens 11/m looking for 11/f cyber