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benjojo posted 18 Mar 2025 18:01 +0000

It is really staggering how much UI/UX development has happened in the last 10~ years, remembering that in 2012 this is what a tweet (on iOS) looked like while a modern day interface is basically uncomparable in a hard to describe way!

a screenshot from an i phone in 2012, showing the old skeuomorphism style UI, the tweet has a island around it, the bottom buttons are "home connect discover me", and the tweetk says "i have the worst laptop. turns on and then it says it's hibernating? you're not a fucking badger mate" by Jack Winter

albonycal@fosstodon... replied 18 Mar 2025 18:55 +0000
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@benjojo and don't forget that twitter used to exist on Blackberry devices

benjojo replied 18 Mar 2025 19:00 +0000
in reply to: https://fosstodon.org/users/albonycal/statuses/114184953686288991

@albonycal I originally signed up to twitter because of the SMS gateway! I was mainly using it as a poor mans SMS notification system so that new SVN revisions on a repo would trigger a SMS to my phone

FritzAdalis@infosec... replied 18 Mar 2025 19:20 +0000
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@benjojo @albonycal
That explains all the 'boring' bots, they were doing sms notofications. Never thought of that, sms was long gone by the time I signed up.

albonycal@fosstodon... replied 18 Mar 2025 19:36 +0000
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@benjojo I used a phone which had SMS based twitter!
It was still functional in I think 2014

wolf480pl@mstdn.io replied 18 Mar 2025 18:14 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/94GY8vw1QsYW1YbQ94

@benjojo at least it was a bit clearer what's clickable