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[-] sgharms 6 points 1 year ago

Great share. I was there.

FidoNet, ANSI art, getting phone numbers on newsprint mags at local computer stores, the modem screeches, AT commands, phrack and cult of the dead cow…friends you’d meet at malls and then go to summer concerts with…online was an adjunct to life, not a closed garden overwrite of life itself.

[-] plumbercraic 1 points 1 year ago

Hah. I came in just at the tail of that - needing to add AT commands to get the 56k handshake to complete. Had no idea what any of them did, but they worked and made me feel like hackerman.

[-] sgharms 1 points 1 year ago

ATH0

It hung up!

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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

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Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.

This community is software and internet focused. For retro hardware discussion try !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

Some Cool Links

Archive.org Software Library

BBS: The Documentary

Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine

cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays

Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities

Web Design Museum

Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9

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