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What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one: (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was one of those nerds. And BBS actually were the 2ND greatest time I had, tech-wise. It was a fascinating new world, beyond imagination. I had one demoscene-board which also was the NC (net-coordinator) of a well-known message-net á la Fido-net.

And one for warez. At the height of it, one CD with a handful zerodays went for like 400 moneyz. Wasn't about the money though.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nice!

Actually, when I moved to a new town, I found a BBS that was a bigger deal than those hobby ones my friends were running. It had lots of people on it at a time and hosted a popular MUD, for example.

Then one day I was logging in and saw 2 options: bbs and ppp. What the heck is ppp? Well I got on the bbs and everyone was going nuts. It's the Internet man! They became the first isp in town and they're actually still around.

Funny thing is though, when I first got on I didn't think much of it? The web was still in its infancy and you kind of had to know your way around. Eventually, I found my way to some ftp server (umich?) with a giant amount of warez and then I was in heaven!

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Haha, yeah, the privilege of being on one of the big name's ftps was gold. Sadly I lost all those contacts. Fairlight, razor and what they all were name...

And the time where you had to search search-engines was also cool. Then google came and changed it all. They rocked!...then they removed "don't be evil!" As slogan and shit went downhill into hell 😒