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How old are you in Internet years without telling your age? Obtaining files meant telnetting to the IP address and then starting an FTP link. Email was in Pine, and the brand-new World Wide Web was text-based in Lynx.

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WHwharris.bsky.social

How old are you in Internet years without telling your age? - 1st email address was my SSN - Gophering to another university to chat with an ex - FTP downloading fan-made D&D "NetBook" RTFs - Taking the Purity Test with friends - Still remember being amazed when I first saw a webpage in Mosaic

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RBryanbonick.com

oh yeah that can do it too. zwift (well, TR, but very similar) ramp test overestimated for me which really fucking sucked, so i usually base FTP on training intervals + feel instead.

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GLgarethleake.bsky.social

…really gotten me good. I usually do long rides and Paceline at zone 4/5, so I guess I’m used to shorter high effort pushes than sustained @ FTP.

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GLgarethleake.bsky.social

Zwift FTP test. Been a little bit since I’ve re-tested though. I’d honestly guess my FTP is higher than the current zwift setting given the sort of riding I’ve done this summer. But I don’t usually do sustained efforts. I think I bc old have done longer (2x20, *maybe* 2x 25), but that would have…

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RBryanbonick.com

how’d you set FTP? 2x15 could be mentally though but shouldn’t be too hard

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GLgarethleake.bsky.social

2 of 2 done. Dang that was tougher than anticipated! First time doing sustained FTP efforts. And here I was thinking I could maybe do a 40 min sustained FTP effort 😅

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GLgarethleake.bsky.social

2x15 @ FTP today. Should be a good one.

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Physical paper “Internet Yellow Pages” with Usenet newsgroups and gopher sites and ftp sites, but none of that newfangled “World Wide Web” stuff

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