peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social and I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw #othernetworks

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov_channel please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov_channel please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a

peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social and I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw #othernetworks

Any neat #xmpp channels out there for #RetroGaming, #CyberPunk, #OtherNetworks, #SelfHosting, #Fedi, or #Streaming interests?

Playing around with Snikket/XMPP a little bit tonight. Would be nice to find some home bases to work out of for the time being.

squealing silently to myself w/glee over this test microbroadcast of a Barenaked Ladies demo tape I bought in 1991 to this extremely cute gathering of radios humming along themselves. if you need a reason to come to the Boulder Public Library 09/09 5pm for my lecture-peformance here it is! #othernetworkshttps://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14871450

squealing silently to myself w/glee over this test microbroadcast of a Barenaked Ladies demo tape I bought in 1991 to this extremely cute gathering of radios humming along themselves. if you need a reason to come to the Boulder Public Library 09/09 5pm for my lecture-peformance here it is! #othernetworkshttps://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14871450

please join me Sept. 9th 5pm at the Boulder Public Library (Canyon Theater) for a 30 minute #othernetworks lecture performance involving handheld FM radios, semaphore flags, and more! followed by a 30 minute discussion with @ntnsndr and Q&A. also note....: if you live in the area and you've been wanting to get your hands on a copy, here's your chance. we managed to squirrel away 20 copies available for purchase thanks to the great folks at the Boulder Bookstore!

please join me Sept. 9th 5pm at the Boulder Public Library (Canyon Theater) for a 30 minute #othernetworks lecture performance involving handheld FM radios, semaphore flags, and more! followed by a 30 minute discussion with @ntnsndr and Q&A. also note....: if you live in the area and you've been wanting to get your hands on a copy, here's your chance. we managed to squirrel away 20 copies available for purchase thanks to the great folks at the Boulder Bookstore!

back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.

for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.

and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage

i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.

i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.

the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.

for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/

#retroComputing #internet#otherNetworks #yeg

back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.

for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.

and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage

i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.

i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.

the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.

for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/

#retroComputing #internet#otherNetworks #yeg

does anyone out there happen to know where I can find a manual for a Ditto spirit duplicator? the @mediaarchaeologylab has a model D-5 and we'd love to get ours working for making zines #othernetworks

better yet: what exactly is in spirit duplicator fluid?? is it just any kind of ethanol? #othernetworks @mediaarchaeologylab

does anyone out there happen to know where I can find a manual for a Ditto spirit duplicator? the @mediaarchaeologylab has a model D-5 and we'd love to get ours working for making zines #othernetworks

I'll be trotting out my hopefully fun and zaney, completely analog #othernetworks lecture-performance here in Boulder Sept. 9th - come join the fun if you're around! 20 copies of Other Networks will also be for sale at the event. and thank you @ntnsndr‬ for making this happen 💚 https://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14949129

I'll be trotting out my hopefully fun and zaney, completely analog #othernetworks lecture-performance here in Boulder Sept. 9th - come join the fun if you're around! 20 copies of Other Networks will also be for sale at the event. and thank you @ntnsndr‬ for making this happen 💚 https://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14949129

ever wondered what it would be like to access Canada's cable TV network NABU from 1984 in 2025? wonder no mo'! some background on NABU from my book and pictures of today's explorations of the server files #othernetworks @mediaarchaeologylabhttps://loriemerson.net/2025/07/14/exploring-nabu-in-2025-a-canadian-cable-tv-network-from-1984/

ever wondered what it would be like to access Canada's cable TV network NABU from 1984 in 2025? wonder no mo'! some background on NABU from my book and pictures of today's explorations of the server files #othernetworks @mediaarchaeologylabhttps://loriemerson.net/2025/07/14/exploring-nabu-in-2025-a-canadian-cable-tv-network-from-1984/