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.
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.
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It hung up!
BBS was a bit before my time but I just finished episode 1 and it was a joy to listen to stories of computing back then
The culture felt similar to what I recall from my early internet days, even if the hardware/software was different
This is a great watch! This is a piece of our digital history that I was not in the slightest aware of.
I love this especially the sysops part
I was an original backer for this project. I still have it on DVD! His next one about text adventure games was very good as well.
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
Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine
cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays
Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities
Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9