slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this
behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:
ssh to bbs@haxxed.com to connect
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
Dial-up internet: where your modem sounded like it was fighting for its life just to connect you to Ask Jeeves.
One call and it was game over.
#ThrowbackThursday #CloudQ #OldSchoolInternet #DialUpDays
You haven’t known true rage until you screamed “MOM! Get off the phone!” so your AOL could connect.
And don’t even start with those “you’ve got mail” vibes.
#Over40Club #AOLStruggles #DialUpDays #BoomerHumor #GenXLife
☎️💻📞📡
Before prevalent social media, a static webpage and a few mailing lists could shake a brand.
My 1999 #Swatch #Protest archive shows how amateur radio operators used hand-coded HTML, listserv chains, and Usenet newsgroups to stop Swatch’s #satellite from advertising on their radio frequencies […]
