Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you one of the wizards of yore? The ones who were there when the old magic was written?

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In a way. Gobelin was my NNTP client, and Connector was my client for multiplayer games. I did some more work back then, like writing our companies’ SMPT gateway. Ah, those were the days…

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    • pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

        Well, both imply that you had access to an X terminal. Gobelin and Connector were written for a text-based interface. You might have seen those things with a green on green screen and a serial connection to the host machine. Although Connector also ran as an X application, thanks to some seriously smart system libraries.

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• fixerdude2@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now that’s a 4 letter acronym I haven’t seen for a while.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it still works.

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