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[–] norb@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Laughs in BBS

or

Laughs in Newgroups

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Mantis@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, I love this.

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

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] cvr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

ssh and/or telnet.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

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