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[–] norb@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Laughs in BBS or

Laughs in Newgroups

[–] biff@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

damn baud rate

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mantis@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, I love this.

Throwing this in the "fun retro internet" pile alongside https://neocities.org/

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Neocities has been around for years now.. I have a website there.. I do wonder if it's getting bigger though.

Seems like every old school platform is getting some sort of resurgence these days, and honestly it's understandable - the collapse of modern social media has created a wave of nostalgia for the good old days of the dot com era.

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still use both. 99% of Usenet is spam, but there still a few active groups (especially under comp.*). The BBS scene on the other hand, is booming. I see new users every week on my favourite board.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they doing BBS-over-SSH these days, or do you need a dial-up modem to participate?

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly most people CAN'T connect through dial-up, even if both parties have all the equipment. A lot of telcos have redone their entire network in VoIP stuff (with heavy compression) which makes it hard to keep a connection even at 300.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

ISPs degrading the performance of other ISPs? That sounds rather anticompetitive…

[–] cvr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does a current day BBS work? Landline phone connections are a thing of the past here.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

telnet or ssh (usually telnet)

If you're connecting from a modern computer, you just get a telnet client that does the appropriate code pages/ANSI/zmodem/etc. If you're connecting from a real vintage computer, you get a little dongle that pretends to be a modem (and often accepts AT commands, including fake phone numbers), but secretly connects to WiFi and relays through a telnet connection.

Some BBSes do still have landlines, and there's the occasional ham radio BBS, but 99.999% of it is through IP-based telnet or ssh these days.

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

ssh and/or telnet.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, lemmy does have a certain BBS/FidoNet vibe. Makes me nostalgic…