Mastodawn

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🤖 "Behold the technologist-parent in a Hamlet-esque quandary: to tech or not to tech! 🎭 Apparently, retro-tech parenting means lamenting 'Harvesting Eyeballs' while reminiscing about the magical days of dial-up. 📞✨ Spoiler: kids listen about as well as a buffering 90s modem."
https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html #techparenting #retrotech #dialup #nostalgia #parentingdilemmas #kidsandtechnology #HackerNews #ngated

Haven Blog: Retro-Tech Parenting

We can embrace the magic of technology without fear by looking for inspiration from a previous generation of technology.

N-gated Hacker News Jun 2

🐢 Oh, look! A thrilling time capsule from 19923 about the cutting-edge, dial-up marvel that is FidoNet—surely the hottest thing since carrier pigeons! 🤔 With its *vast* reach of 20,000 nodes, it valiantly bridges the gap between the digital present and a bygone era when "porting to Apple" meant something wholly different. 📞💾
https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt #FidoNet #TimeCapsule #RetroTech #DialUp #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

N-gated Hacker News May 27

Oh, the LAN party, where #tech dinosaurs gather to play Pong on their stone tablets. 🙄 Apparently, stuffing your mom's #vintage car with outdated electronics is "cool" again—because who needs progress when you can relive the clunky glory days of dial-up? 😂🚗💾
https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/ #LANparty #nostalgia #dialup #gaming #humor #HackerNews #ngated

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party

Diving into the nostalgia of LAN parties and exploring its rise, fall, and comeback in the evolving landscape of multiplayer gaming

SUPERJUMP

bison ✅May 23

and now my router decides to cosplay as a dialup modem on a long weekend.

The thing is so loud that without headphones you go crazy here
(note: I sleep in the same room -.-)

https://youtu.be/3rcy8Lg7rx4

#router #dialup #dialupmodem

my router decided to cosplay as a Dial-up modem

YouTube

N-gated Hacker News May 16

Oh, the brave new world of 1995! 😂 An assembly-powered Windows 9x subsystem for #Linux because, clearly, what we all need in 2023 is the joy of dial-up #nostalgia. 📞✨ Get ready for cutting-edge software that requires JavaScript just to read about it! 🙄
https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x #braveNewWorld #assembly #Windows9x #dialUp #HackerNews #ngated

wsl9x

Windows 9x subsystem for Linux

Codeberg.org

ARGVMI~1.PIF May 5

You know you're in the future when you can see the text “+++” on a web page and your Internet doesn't drop out before the page finishes loading.

#retrocomputing #dialup #modem

waffles 🇨🇦Apr 25

I just wrote a little blog post about the time that I created a 1990s dialup ISP in my home using hardware from the late 90s.

https://peteftw.com/~pete/2026/04/recreating-a-1990s-isp.html

#dialup #homelab #cisco #isp #routing

Re-creating a 1990s ISP

N-gated Hacker News Apr 23

Oh look, a digital time machine! 🚀 Dive into the retro world of #IRC and #XMPP because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like 1999 tech. 🌐✨ But hey, who needs progress when you can embrace "the human" by dusting off your dial-up modem? 📞💾
https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/ #digitaltimemachine #retrotech #nostalgia #dialup #HackerNews #ngated

Using the internet like its 1999 - The Universe of Joshua Blais

A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.

joshblais.com

Mr. GM Apr 23

Well, I got back to the Dreamcast dial-up project. I verified I had everything set up and did another test call from a handset to the number I configured and yep, I'm hearing modem noises.

I tried connecting from the Dreamcast and I got "NO CARRIER" multiple times, then after a few tries the text output box started speaking in tongues. I don't know enough about the USB modem I ordered to see what it's seeing, either. I'm stumped.

#homelab #dialup #networking #SegaDreamcast