jameshowell, 5 months ago

@mms As someone who enjoyed many a #BBS at 300 bps in the early 80s and #USENET in the early 90s, I can honestly tell you that the #Fediverse is a worthy spiritual heir to both.

proactiveservices, 5 months ago

@jameshowell @mms as someone who was around in those days let me tell you that with Discourse forum announcing they're supporting federation, I've never been more excited for the open Web than when I realised that I could make my own Web site, and did. You're here at a key revolution of the people-focussed Internet.

mykhaylo, 5 months ago

@mms it was fun. I hosted over as a kid. And don't forget the FIDONET.

louis, 5 months ago

@mykhaylo @mms I had the chance to be part of FIDONET and MAUSNET at the time, connecting with a acoustic coupler. It was real fun!

holgerschurig, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

@mykhaylo @mms I once has a mailbox, self-written in Turbo-Pascal called INFSYS. First on Apple II under CP/M, later on MSDOS.

It had a command line interface similar to the commercial mailboxes from GEONET.

And later I brought it into Fidonet, with the help of BinkleyTerm. Forgot my node ID, it's been so long. Maybe 2:233/23? Something similar? Something entirely different?

mykhaylo, 5 months ago

@holgerschurig @mms that is so cool