Good morning, Fediverse ☕✨

New day, new chaos, new tiny attempt at pretending I have a plan.

First: coffee.
Then: wake up properly.
After that: let’s see what kind of weird little adventure today throws at us.

Have a good one, everyone. 🌿

#GoodMorning #Fediverse #DigitalNomad #CoffeeFirst #SlowWeb #OldSchoolInternet

That’s it for today. Time to call it a night.

Tomorrow we continue.

Good night, Fediverse. 🌙

Let’s see what tomorrow has waiting for us.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoodNight #DigitalNomad #OldschoolInternet

My evening “required reading for the ears”:

please tell me i am not the only one who knows that 😄
Other people fall asleep to rain sounds, meditation, or cozy audiobooks.

I listen to BOfH and call it IT self-care.

Somewhere between Unix basement therapy and advanced user tolerance training. XD

#BOfH #Linux #Unix #Sysadmin #ITLife #NerdLife #OldschoolInternet #ThinkPad #LinuxMint

Good morning, dear internet people ☕️

Coffee is currently being installed, the brain is booting… but honestly, it behaves like Windows 95 when you try to run more than three programs at the same time.

Also: the new blog post is already online :-)

https://lori.free.nf/posts/003.html

#GoodMorning #Blogging #OldschoolInternet #HTML #Fediverse #Mastodon #Coffee #LinuxUser

Interesting. It seems like there are way more Linux users here than I expected.

So, let’s do a little roll call:

What are you using?

Linux?
Windows?
macOS?
BSD?
Something beautifully weird?

I’m curious 👀

#Linux #LinuxUser #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech #OldschoolInternet #windows #mac

#MWGIC #2025 #Poems #Poets #Poetry #OldSchoolInternet #Lament #Rue #Nostalgia

https://grymwyre.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-lost-worlds-of-elder-geek.html

Before cloud sync and GitHub repos, code and digital creations were traded on floppy disks and burned CDs. In the late 90s and early 2000s, underground warez and demoscene groups would package up cracks, keygens, and jaw-dropping real-time graphics demos into ZIPs with slick ASCII art NFO files and pass them around via IRC, FTP, and BBS drops. These weren’t just pirate files, they were digital calling cards, signatures of identity, skill, and style.

Some groups became legends not because of what they released, but how. Custom installers, unique chiptunes, intricate ANSI animations, it was as much about the art as the hack.

Today, you can still find echoes of this era in the demoscene and archival sites that preserve those raw, expressive digital roots.

#WarezScene #Demoscene #DigitalHistory #HackerCulture #ASCIIArt #RetroComputing #OldSchoolInternet

In the early days of the internet, before social media and Discord, hackers, phreakers, and tech enthusiasts gathered on IRC, BBSes, and Telnet-based systems. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was the go-to for real-time discussions, with networks like EFnet and DALnet hosting everything from hacker collectives to warez groups. BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) were the underground forums of the ‘80s and ‘90s, where users dialed in, shared files, and exchanged knowledge, often hidden behind ANSI art-laden login screens. Telnet provided access to everything from early online games to university networks—if you knew where to look. While much of this culture has faded, its influence is still felt in today’s decentralized and privacy-focused communities.

#IRC #BBS #Telnet #RetroTech #HackerCulture #Phreaking #OldSchoolInternet