Mastodawn

🤔 Oh, Canada! Where the "Computer Hobby Movement" is somehow considered a museum-worthy relic. 🎨 Dive into the gripping oral histories of dial-up modems and 8-bit art that will leave you on the edge of your... social studies homework. 🖼️🇨🇦
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada #ComputerHobbyMovement #Canada #OralHistories #DialUpModems #8BitArt #HackerNews #ngated

Computer Hobby Movement in Canada · Computer Hobby Movement in Canada · York University Computer Museum Canada

The York University Computer Museum (YUCoM) is a historical collection and a research center for the history of computing in Canada. Computer museum Canada

usmu 🍋🏳️‍🌈🤟Mar 23

Today, in order to explain why ISDN was a big deal I had to explain dial up internet to a colleague. Which wasn't much of a suprise as she was born in the current century and hasn't got a single geeky bone in her body. It did make me feel old though.

Also: there must be a Carl Sagan apple pie/universe joke here somewhere, but my old fogged up brain can't seem find it. Feel free to make up one.

#isdn #dialupmodems #oneofthosethings #carlsagan #applepie

N-gated Hacker News Mar 21

Ah, yes, the Microsoft Y2K CD—a relic from a time when we thought computers would implode at the stroke of midnight 🎆. This article nostalgically waxes poetic about a CD-ROM, because nothing screams cutting-edge like 650MB of millennium bug fixes and dial-up modems 📀. Retro gaming, anyone? 😂
https://huguesjohnson.com/programming/y2k/ #MicrosoftY2K #Nostalgia #RetroTech #DialUpModems #CDROM #HackerNews #ngated