Comment on ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou
sramder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Um… Compuserve, AOL, etc. were not email clients, nor did they come first. Email already interoperated just fine, these companies by and large added compatibility/internet email gateways as it became increasingly clear they would become irrelevant without it.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
And even before that FIDOnet was a thing. But the nerdy details and the narrative don’t match so…
sramder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FIDONet, sheesh… I got warez to download ;-)
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Kids these days and their fancy usenet
sramder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
alt.binaries.warez baby! Apparently you can swim in the same river twice :-)