Submitted 3 weeks ago by irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Not sure if this is allowed, but I’m sure the mods will let me know.
Memories. LOL Things were so simple way back then it seems.
Did anyone host a BBS? I found this article kind of funny about ‘fixing’ WIndows by C:\FORMAT C:. Some things don’t change. LOL
I’ve hosted my own BBS, but mostly downloaded from other BBSs. All those huge GIF/PNG files…
ASCII porn! LOL It take about 30 minutes to bang that out on a dot matrix, tractor feed, and, well, if you stood back about 5 feet and squinted one eye, it kinda looked like a pin up gal.
Maybe shorter time. I had Epson Lx400 (I think, it was something …400). It was rather slow. But if you installed drivers for LX450, it printed way faster. But still no ASCII porn :)
This was the peak of human civilization.
I really do feel like if computers had peaked somewhere in the 90s, maybe with just incremental improvements to technology at that point, that the world would be a (less convenient but) much better place today.
can I still get a job?
Did anyone host a BBS?
Spitfire! Wildcat! PCBoard! Renegade!
Nice!
bbs magazine riding the 90s bubble and changing to bbs.net
"Copyright © 2000 - 2011 China. "
Nice! You may want to consider !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org too!
Didn’t know that existed. Thanks for the tip. Dropped it in my Lemmy bookmark folder.
It’s really fun to me to go back and look at how the technology has progressed. At the time, you are glued into the current technology, and probably don’t have a sense for where it could all go. Keeps me grounded. A ‘touch grass’ moment for the muse.
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.
I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.
fdisk, format, reinstall
doo-dah, doo-dah
To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Not Lazlow’s fault. You see, back then periodicals actually had sub-editors.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hotline was pretty underground as I remember. Pre-cusor to P2P and a host of other platforms. At the time you’re not quite as aware, but looking through the lens of history, it’s fascinating where all of this technology originated.
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I hope in some fashion computers and related technology drop out of mainstream appeal and are relegated to actual nerds and tinkerers again. Not in a gatekeeping sense, but just where the goals are about pushing boundaries for the sake of exploration and not solely profit and personal data acquisition motivated.
IanM32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Man, that takes me back. Several gaming groups I was part of had Hotline servers. The role they served for us was probably closer to a Discord server.
sj_zero 2 weeks ago
Ran windows 95 on a thin client a couple years ago.
I forgot that you could just end up with a broken install from the word go. I had to reinstall twice until it was stable. I didn't do anything in particular different, it just didn't take that time.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did 100 or so Win95 (incl OSR2) installs and never ran into that.