Jason Perlow ✅🐧🍔 ✍️In the 1980s to get online, in addition to grokking your PC you had to know how to configure a modem and a comms program, needed phone numbers for BBSes or online services. Nothing was just handed to you. Because of this friction, the user community we were left with were mostly -not- stupid people. Did we have trolls, yes. Even smart people can be toxic. But it wasn’t on Twitter or Facebook scale and they were easily dealt with. We can replicate that with this paradigm.
Dan@jperlow Oh the good old Hayes commands! https://michaelgellis.tripod.com/modem.html
kurtsh@danvanmoll @jperlow Oh, now this is my jam! Grew up on PCtalk but long live Emulex/Qmodem/HSlink/ARC! (Procomm/PKZIP can +++ATH! 😁)
BTW: Any fans of @textfiles & "BBS: The Documentary"? https://kurtsthoughts.com/2012/09/07/bbs-the-documentary-now-online-in-its-entirety/
BTW: Any fans of @textfiles & "BBS: The Documentary"? https://kurtsthoughts.com/2012/09/07/bbs-the-documentary-now-online-in-its-entirety/
@kurtsh @jperlow @textfiles Oh I remember the documentary.. I was 14 when I had my own BBS with 3 nodes running (on 386-PCs with open cases and connected via Novell Netware). I can still hum the sound of my 19.200 modems..
@danvanmoll @jperlow @textfiles What BBS software? Remember how you could tell at what bit rate you'd successfully connected at based on the tone, clarity & intensity of the connection 'static'... just because you'd heard it so many times? 🤣 Man, I loved those days...
@kurtsh @jperlow @textfiles PCBoard - at least that's the one I remember the most... so many nice plugins and addons available.. Yes, I miss the excitement of these days... my first week on Mastodon really reminded me of back then.