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· Dec 19
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there are certainly pure dial-up BBSs still up
September 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
there are certainly pure dial-up BBSs still up
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I think we need to bring back local and hobbyist BBSs and I’m not kidding
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I think we need to bring back local and hobbyist BBSs and I’m not kidding
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We could also retreat to semi abandon forms of proto internets, BBSs and Usenet posting! You can even pirate video games on Usenet!
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
We could also retreat to semi abandon forms of proto internets, BBSs and Usenet posting! You can even pirate video games on Usenet!
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Drama on BBSs was arguing in slow motion. I'm going to call you a dick on Thurs and maybe you've responded by Saturday lol.
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Drama on BBSs was arguing in slow motion. I'm going to call you a dick on Thurs and maybe you've responded by Saturday lol.
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A nice recollection of the early social internet by @phil.gyford.com. I was on Club Wired, and Spacebar, and I'm still in touch with many of the people I met there.
www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
www.gyford.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A nice recollection of the early social internet by @phil.gyford.com. I was on Club Wired, and Spacebar, and I'm still in touch with many of the people I met there.
www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
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My experience dates back to those same years. When BBSs were the way to exchange a lot of software, usenet news groups were full of useful information before the web and IRC meant Internet Relay Chat which were the first live chat rooms of the internet.
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My experience dates back to those same years. When BBSs were the way to exchange a lot of software, usenet news groups were full of useful information before the web and IRC meant Internet Relay Chat which were the first live chat rooms of the internet.
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The dataset includes interviews with Polish BBS users and operators from the 1990s (available in Polish).
doi.org/10.60894/1VD...
It’s a great resource for studying the history of digital media in Poland and for cross-national comparisons.
#Dataset #OpenData #BBS #Poland #Interviews
doi.org/10.60894/1VD...
It’s a great resource for studying the history of digital media in Poland and for cross-national comparisons.
#Dataset #OpenData #BBS #Poland #Interviews
Interviews with system operators and users of the Polish BBSes
The dataset includes individual interviews with the system operators and users of the Polish BBSes. BBSes were computer servers connected via telep...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The dataset includes interviews with Polish BBS users and operators from the 1990s (available in Polish).
doi.org/10.60894/1VD...
It’s a great resource for studying the history of digital media in Poland and for cross-national comparisons.
#Dataset #OpenData #BBS #Poland #Interviews
doi.org/10.60894/1VD...
It’s a great resource for studying the history of digital media in Poland and for cross-national comparisons.
#Dataset #OpenData #BBS #Poland #Interviews
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For the history of BBSs in other countries, see e.g. the chapters "A Brief History of the Taiwenese Internet: The BBS Culture" by Liang, Yi-Ren, and Huang, and "Hi! Turkiye and Turkish BBS and Digital Cultures" by Furman, in this book: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
#BBS #Taiwan #Turkey
#BBS #Taiwan #Turkey
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories | Gerard Goggin,
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions,
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
For the history of BBSs in other countries, see e.g. the chapters "A Brief History of the Taiwenese Internet: The BBS Culture" by Liang, Yi-Ren, and Huang, and "Hi! Turkiye and Turkish BBS and Digital Cultures" by Furman, in this book: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
#BBS #Taiwan #Turkey
#BBS #Taiwan #Turkey
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@noodleawesome.bsky.social you must watch this documentary series about BBSs. I think it's right up your alley. It's about Bulletin Board Systems and the communities that formed around them, made by the very same community. It's beautiful.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
BBS: The Documentary - YouTube
Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer...there was a brave and pioneering band of ...
m.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
@noodleawesome.bsky.social you must watch this documentary series about BBSs. I think it's right up your alley. It's about Bulletin Board Systems and the communities that formed around them, made by the very same community. It's beautiful.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I was using local BBSs even earlier, circa '81 or 82. My first modem was a classic 300-baud "acoustic coupler" with rubber cups for the telephone handset. Nowadays those are sold as collectors' items. Wish I'd kept mine as a nostalgic souvenir of those times.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I was using local BBSs even earlier, circa '81 or 82. My first modem was a classic 300-baud "acoustic coupler" with rubber cups for the telephone handset. Nowadays those are sold as collectors' items. Wish I'd kept mine as a nostalgic souvenir of those times.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
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Sometimes I get nostalgic for mid-90's IRC. And BBS with l33t access. My fellow olds will remember.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Sometimes I get nostalgic for mid-90's IRC. And BBS with l33t access. My fellow olds will remember.
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NAUTILUS.ANS, 1987-05-31 from Precision Software Applications Silver Collection 2 (CD-ROM)
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
NAUTILUS.ANS, 1987-05-31 from Precision Software Applications Silver Collection 2 (CD-ROM)
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New [GRYMN](grymn.neocities.org) update 💥
Built this terminal emulator using JQuery and a little bit of hyper-fixation. It’s still under some development, but I’m overdue for a post 🙃
#webdevelopment #indieweb #terminalemulator #indiegame #gamedev
Built this terminal emulator using JQuery and a little bit of hyper-fixation. It’s still under some development, but I’m overdue for a post 🙃
#webdevelopment #indieweb #terminalemulator #indiegame #gamedev
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
New [GRYMN](grymn.neocities.org) update 💥
Built this terminal emulator using JQuery and a little bit of hyper-fixation. It’s still under some development, but I’m overdue for a post 🙃
#webdevelopment #indieweb #terminalemulator #indiegame #gamedev
Built this terminal emulator using JQuery and a little bit of hyper-fixation. It’s still under some development, but I’m overdue for a post 🙃
#webdevelopment #indieweb #terminalemulator #indiegame #gamedev
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I miss Turbo Pascal...
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I miss Turbo Pascal...
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Vim was released 33 years ago. To celebrate, try this: open Vim and type :smile to see an Easter egg. Happy birthday the best programmers text editor out there!!!
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Vim was released 33 years ago. To celebrate, try this: open Vim and type :smile to see an Easter egg. Happy birthday the best programmers text editor out there!!!
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Wow, I found a nice retro PC emulator site that brought back memories of running CP/M on an Apple ][+ with a Z80 expansion board. Specifically I remember WordStar, CalcStar, dBase II, SuperCalc, Turbo Pascal, FORTRAN 80, COBOL, and Zork. www.pcjs.org
PCjs Machines
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortm...
www.pcjs.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wow, I found a nice retro PC emulator site that brought back memories of running CP/M on an Apple ][+ with a Z80 expansion board. Specifically I remember WordStar, CalcStar, dBase II, SuperCalc, Turbo Pascal, FORTRAN 80, COBOL, and Zork. www.pcjs.org
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I love-hated Pascal. Turbo-Pascal was actually pretty cool.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I love-hated Pascal. Turbo-Pascal was actually pretty cool.
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These are old #ANSIart menus I made for #HypernodeBBS with #CP437 characters. I hope to get the #BBS online soon but can’t host it where I live. Each day I’ll share past art and may repurpose some as doors or mods for #MysticBBS.
🔍 #TextMode | #ASCII | #Sysop | #Telnet
🔍 #TextMode | #ASCII | #Sysop | #Telnet
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
These are old #ANSIart menus I made for #HypernodeBBS with #CP437 characters. I hope to get the #BBS online soon but can’t host it where I live. Each day I’ll share past art and may repurpose some as doors or mods for #MysticBBS.
🔍 #TextMode | #ASCII | #Sysop | #Telnet
🔍 #TextMode | #ASCII | #Sysop | #Telnet
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I enjoy the nostalgia of the code page 437 font on Arch Linux, and sure enough there's a TTF version available: cp437.github.io
Code Page 437
cp437.github.io
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I enjoy the nostalgia of the code page 437 font on Arch Linux, and sure enough there's a TTF version available: cp437.github.io
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I miss MSDOS… we didn’t know how good we had it
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I miss MSDOS… we didn’t know how good we had it
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Mech roguelike gonna go brrrrr
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Mech roguelike gonna go brrrrr
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If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...