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QWK Packets and the Muffled Spark : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

"A deep dive into the QWK packet - a revolutionary addition to the Bulletin Board Experience of the 1980s - and the ramifications of what it represents in a very changed world."

https://archive.org/details/muffled-spark/page/n13/mode/2up

#bbs #history #qwk #retro
QWK Packets and the Muffled Spark : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A deep dive into the QWK packet - a revolutionary addition to the Bulletin Board Experience of the 1980s - and the ramifications of what it represents in a...

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Show threadJdeBPFeb 7, 2025

@bytebro @the_etrain

OLMR is an initialism that one can use to tell who was really serious about it. (-:

#QWK #pointing

KhronosDec 3, 2024
Making progress with the #synchronet system. Got #qwk downloads working along with #syncterm as well. Now just have to get use to how #multimail works as the mail reader.
Peter KreftingApr 7, 2024

Has anyone made an offline reader for Mastodon? Something that can create whatever is the 2020s equivelent of a #BlueWave, #QWK or #SOUP package? Or perhaps present a Mastodon over #NNTP?

#AskMastodon #AskFedi #OLMR

Show threadarfonzoDec 9, 2022

Update on the #BBS in progress:

Not much progress these past days, but I've got it configured with #QWK networking, and joined up with DOVE-net now.

I started drawing a login #ANSI, but nothing to share yet.   

  

#retrocomputing #dialup

Jeroen Ruigrok van der WervenNov 3, 2022

How do I use #BlueWave and #QWK with #Mastodon?

#retrocomputing #geekjoke

Show threadJohn GoerzenJul 5, 2022

@downey Yes indeed! It used uqwk to pack up #QWK packets. uqwk is longer in #Debian, but multimail, a QWK reader, is.

Random fact: both of those tools support SOUP, the Simple Offline #Usenet Packet! Now there's something I had completely forgotten.