#bbses hashtag - Bluesky

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1 week ago

[Repost: Questionnaire - Plain Text]

Over on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/17/questionnaire-plain-text/

#repost #ascii #bbses #nostalgia #textEditors

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DanQ.me

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1 month ago

Original post on danq.me

[Repost: Rebels in the Sky]

I feel like I'm reading a lot about SSH lately and how it can be used for exotic and unusual tasks. Tarpitting's fun, of course, but really what inspires me is all these dinky projects like ssh tiny.christmas that subvert the usual authentication-then-terminal flow […]

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DanQ.me

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7 months ago

Original post on danq.me

[Article: Internet Services^H Provider]

When you signed up with an ISP, you used to get Web space, email, shared FTP access, a nearby IRC node, newsgroups, and a software bundle. Nowadays you get a shit router, a voucher for a free month of a streaming service you didn't want, and crap customer […]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

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1 year ago

Fedi.Video (@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services) Way back in the 1970s/1980s, before the Fediverse, before the web, there was an even older open network: "bulletin board systems" or BBSes. You can watch a multi-part documentary about the history of the BBS network at: ➡️ https://fedi.video/w/p/h6CMyFnbdPZXpaRpMCBKdk The episodes are themed rather than chronological, so you can watch any episodes you want in any order. #BBS #BulletinBoards #BBSes #CreativeCommons #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing

BBSes are one of those things where I have nostalgia for something I wasn't even around for!

social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/1139079535101...

#BBS #BulletinBoards #BBSes #CreativeCommons #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing

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Space Hobo

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1 year ago

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This reminds me of the "MCI" tricks we'd do on #Citadel #BBSes, where some control code would print out the name of the currently-logged in user (`^An`, I think it was).
https://void.rehab/notes/a2w70590l19fwyje

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