DanQ.meOver on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/17/questionnaire-plain-text/
cs"It's ancient history."
#SEA vs #PKWare
#ARC #BBS #BBSes
https://makertube.net/w/rV22c5ki4zMJnGTXSJUN91
SEA vs PKWARE
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░
I feel like I'm reading a lot about SSH lately and how it can be used for exotic and unusual tasks. Tarpitting's fun, of course, but really what inspires me is all these dinky projects like ssh tiny.christmas that subvert the usual authentication-then-terminal flow that you expect when you connect to an SSH server.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/02/10/rebels-in-the-sky/
Rebels in the Sky
I feel like I'm reading a lot about SSH lately and how it can be used for exotic and unusual tasks. Tarpitting's fun, of course, but really what inspires me is all these dinky projects like ssh tiny.christmas that subvert the usual authentication-then-terminal flow that you expect when you connect to an SSH server.
JdeBPI am expecting great things from @bytebro here, who no doubt spotted "southbridge" (one of the chips in a PC mainboard chipset) in yesterday's list.
"filesystem" is already ticked off, too.
And "mainboard" doesn't quite cut the mustard because even though #MerriamWebster does not have it, the #OxfordEnglishDictionary does.
Many computing terms are surprisingly a lot older than the 1970s and early 1980s.
But neither on-line dictionary has (for example) "elsethread", which no doubt @bytebro regards, as the rest of us used to 4 decades of threaded discussions do, as a normal word of long standing.
JdeBP (@[email protected])
A relative is proud of xyr purchase of an early 1970s Concise #OxfordEnglishDictionary. I keep thinking of the huge number of everyday words and phrases, for me, that it cannot have. Looking up the movie #BossLevel (that the TiVo just thought that I should see), for example, the meaning of a "boss" as a video game enemy cannot pre-date the original 1971 Bruce Lee movie that the concept came from. "smartphone", "binfluencer", "mickeys", "rickrolling", "Wi-Fi", "cellphone", "floppy disc", "GUI", "TUI", "upvote", "newsgroup", "e-mail", "Thatcherite", "Lib Dem", "Blairite", "house music", "hard-code", "transgender", "JIT", "photoshop", "anime", "side-scroller", "teletext", "internet", "Ethernet", "DoS", "malware", "spammer", "SCSI", "southbridge", "CD", "chip and PIN", "shareware", "weblog", "cyberspace", "kill file", "MCP", "Bushism", "terminal emulator", "PDF", "K-pop", "PDA", "SUV", "boom box", "phishing", "infotainment", "GPS", "website", "coprocessor", … #EnglishLanguage
hollow-oneI’ve patiently waiting if there is a wake up call but it seems that #araknet is dead without chance of resurrecting. All #BBSes that relied on it either move to promote ZeroNET or FSX or both. Both great. i just hope before last plug to Araknet is disconnected somebody saves the archive of all great discussions we had there!
This is just huge warning that nothing lives forever. I liked that network for all those last 5 years or so, on my way to rediscover the scene
Ars Technica NewsAOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years https://arstechni.ca/sJL8 #Internetserviceproviders #internetinfrastructure #telecommunications #satelliteInternet #dial-upinternet #internethistory #Internetaccess #digitaldivide #ruralinternet #aoldialup #broadband #retrotech #dial-up #modems #BBSes #modem #yahoo #Tech #AOL #DSL
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)BBSes are one of those things where I have nostalgia for something I wasn't even around for!
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/113907953510178561
#BBS #BulletinBoards #BBSes #CreativeCommons #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing
Fedi.Video (@[email protected])
Way back in the 1970s/1980s, before the Fediverse, before the web, there was an even older open network: "bulletin board systems" or BBSes. You can watch a multi-part documentary about the history of the BBS network at: ➡️ https://fedi.video/w/p/h6CMyFnbdPZXpaRpMCBKdk The episodes are themed rather than chronological, so you can watch any episodes you want in any order. #BBS #BulletinBoards #BBSes #CreativeCommons #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing
Fedi.VideoWay back in the 1970s/1980s, before the Fediverse, before the web, there was an even older open network: "bulletin board systems" or BBSes.
You can watch a multi-part documentary about the history of the BBS network at:
➡️ https://fedi.video/w/p/h6CMyFnbdPZXpaRpMCBKdk
The episodes are themed rather than chronological, so you can watch any episodes you want in any order.
#BBS #BulletinBoards #BBSes #CreativeCommons #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing
BBS: The Documentary Series
Blake PattersonBBSing big with MuffinTerm on the Mac.
#BBS #BBSing #BBSes #MuffinTerm #Mac #dialup #telnet #Apple #MacStudio #LG #LGDualUp #setups #desk #NoMansSky #video #ByteCellar