A riff on #XKCD 1269, relevant to the #selfhosted #Mastodon #fediverse.
@joe Oh hey, it's the modern version of #HamRadio

@kwf @joe and what it was like to own a computer in the early 80's, when we mostly wrote code to make it easier to use our computers, or connect to a BBS in the late 80's, when we mostly posted about how to better be able to post to the BBS... or CompuServe, where the folks who wrote TapCIS called themselves The Stone Soup Group to poke fun at themselves for this very reason.

What's old is new again 😉

@mcrocker What I wouldn't give for just a day on the early net
@joe as cool as the GNN (Global Network Navigator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Network_Navigator ) was, google.stanford.edu was a breath of fresh air. Now...
Global Network Navigator - Wikipedia