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Dendrobatus AzureusWho recognises this wonderful retro Technology, used in Times Long past for retro places where UUCP was the language between machines, port 23 was actively used over POTS twisted pair wires, and the Sysop could read all text you wrote...<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AF16550" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AF16550</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ATX3DT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATX3DT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ATA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/MNP5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MNP5</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Telebit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Telebit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Waffle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waffle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBS</a>

Jamie TGoing through old warez scene BBSes is so much fun and a really great distraction from life at the moment. The best things I've found (aside from the ascii art of course) have been the messages they send to each other when they find out that an informant is lurking their boards. Surely one of the originating moments of what it means to identify a poser online. <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/warez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warez</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacking</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/thescene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thescene</a>

vga256today's archival/software preservation work -i noticed that PCBoard BBS software's wikipedia article mentioned something kinda weird - that just before clark development went bankrupt in 1997, it was building a server called MetaWorlds... an attempt at bridging the ansi-based BBS with the WWW. sadly, the software never made it out of beta, and was nowhere to be found.. until today it seems! i managed to dig it out of the glorious ibm wgam-wbiz collection, and i've uploaded a copy to IA:<a href="https://archive.org/details/metaworlds_beta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/metaworlds_beta</a>i honestly don't really understand what MetaWorlds does, so i'm hoping a PCBoard wiz manages to get it talking to their pcb instance, and lets us know how it all works.update: located a newer beta. uploaded here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/metaworlds-beta-17" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/metaworlds-beta-17</a>final update: version 1.02 (final) found! <a href="https://archive.org/details/pcb-metaworlds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/pcb-metaworlds</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarePreservation</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a>

Wintermute_BBSOut there, in the worrying world of today is a little <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Zilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zilog</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Z80</a> computer with a mere 64KB of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAM</a> and running the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1970s</a> CP/M operating system.This little machine is connected to the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intertubes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intertubes</a> and it's serving a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/singleuser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#singleuser</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bulletinboardsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a> for you, the worrying souls of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/yesteryears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yesteryears</a> to visit.Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rc2014</a> based bulletin board in the world!Check out the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alttext</a> or my <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/profile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#profile</a> info on information on how to connect.<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

vga256thank you <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@acn128" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@acn128</a> for setting up the world's first globaltalk FirstClass BBS! it is amazingly functional, and even has a Usenet feed via eternal-september(apologies for the terrible photo - my phone grabbed the aperture grille by accident)for those unfamiliar with FirstClass, it was one of the *very* few fully graphical BBSes of the 1990s, with a point and click graphical client. it predated larger systems like Lotus Notes by a decade<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/globaltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globaltalk</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marchintosh</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

Felix 🇺🇦🚴‍♂️🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇲🇽🇵🇦 🇪🇺<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@shawnhooper</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Janeishly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Janeishly</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/@TheLancashireman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheLancashireman</a> I had this here as my first device to the online world.But even had the authorization of the German Federal Post Office (at that time also called the yellow plague) 300baud on <a href="https://norden.social/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c64</a>the story behind my regular mailbox (bbs), which I visited regularly at the beginning: <a href="https://tecs.de/box/geschichte.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tecs.de/box/geschichte.html</a><a href="https://norden.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/tecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tecs</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ansi</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/ascii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ascii</a>

vga256back in the early and mid-90s, getting on the net meant you were a university student, or had corporate access through a big company. getting online wasn't easy.worse, even if you had a dialup number and login, there was no such thing as a tcp/ip stack built-in to Windows 3.1. even if you *did* have a winsock stack, you'd still need a file downloading protocol, gopher client, world wide web client, ftp client, email client. just getting your machine off the ground was nearly impossible unless you could grab these from a local BBSto make things simpler, universities began offering dial-up internet software packages to their students and staff.in 1994, my mom was an undergrad student at the University of Alberta. our family had just bought an IBM PS/1 with a 2400 baud modem, and i was abusing the hell out of our single phone line at night visiting local BBSes.she somehow found out that the university was selling internet dial-up software for $10 to students, and brought home the diskette pack with her. along with a USR Sportster 14.4k modem, she gave me the install diskettes as a valentine's day gift.it had a slick setup program that enabled SLIP using Trumpet Winsock, and provided a local (free!) dial-up number for access.after 25 years, i finally tracked down a few versions of those diskettes. i've imaged them and uploaded them all to IA.the first version of the dial-up package in 1994 was called WinSLIP. it had no PPP support yet, but contained some really cool shareware internet utilities like HGopher and NCSA Mosaic. this would have been the earliest programs offered for Windows 3.1WinSLIP/MSKermit 1994/95: <a href="https://archive.org/details/ua_winslip" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ua_winslip</a>The second version of the software was renamed to NetSurf. It stripped out most of the obscure shareware sadly, and replaced them with Netscape 2 and Eudora Light. The new version of Trumpet Winsock offered PPP which was a huge improvement:NetSurf 1996/97: <a href="https://archive.org/details/ua_netsurf_96" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ua_netsurf_96</a>Now well into the Windows 95 era, the 1997/98 software was shipped on a CD with a hilarious "multimedia" installer/help program designed in Macromedia Director:NetSurf 1997/98: <a href="https://archive.org/details/netsurf-97-starter-kit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/netsurf-97-starter-kit</a>I hope this brings back some memories for fellow U of A alumni :)<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarePreservation</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webPreservation</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/win31" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#win31</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldWideWeb</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/yeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yeg</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alberta</a>

vga256just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IAthank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity. if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few monthsthis book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.<a href="https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webHistory</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallweb</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

Christopher MastoTime for a proper <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a>.Primarily, I'm a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geek</a>, a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nerd</a>, a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> enthusiast. Santa brought me a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commodore</a> 64 when I was 9 and I've never stopped being excited by new gadgets.I ran a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBS</a> in the 90s, I've been an <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amiga</a> fanboy, a <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> and <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> advocate, <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perl</a> fan, <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mac</a> developer (presented once at <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/WWDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WWDC</a>). I'm a hobbyist <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maker</a> of <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a>, <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/3dPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3dPrinting</a>, <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/LaserCutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaserCutting</a>, etc. Inconsequential <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/YouTuber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTuber</a> (see bio). I dabble in <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/HomeAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAutomation</a>, and still like to <a href="https://masto.masto.com/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#code</a>.

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