any #bbs recommendations?

It must have been 10years ago i watched the documentary
I still think of it from time to time

https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI

any #bbs recommendations?

It must have been 10years ago i watched the documentary
I still think of it from time to time

https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI

It's good to be back. Today is the first day of the rest of days.

#BBS #Telegard

It's good to be back. Today is the first day of the rest of days.

#BBS #Telegard

I wonder what it would take to revive #bbs culture for the modern smartphone age.

did you dial in to Calgary area BBSes in the 90s?

browse through this bbs list published in the nov 93 issue of (alberta’s) The Computer Paper.

who could resist dialing into Boonies Bar&Grill CDROM 😂

#yyc #bbs #alberta #canada

did you dial in to Calgary area BBSes in the 90s?

browse through this bbs list published in the nov 93 issue of (alberta’s) The Computer Paper.

who could resist dialing into Boonies Bar&Grill CDROM 😂

#yyc #bbs #alberta #canada

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

… Restless.
… Lonely.
… Very talented.

In 1994, Eerie was just a teenager. But he was also a prolific artist, musician, programmer, writer and publisher trying to find his place in the pre-web online world.

A #retrocomputing #longreads profile for the holiday weekend.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck/

#bbs #ansiart #textmode #vintagecomputing #comics #webcomics

🤔 ❓
Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …

What was “ANSI art”?
What was a “bulletin board”?
Were there ANSI comics?
Heck, how do you even define "comics"?

… Well, I've got some answers:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/28/ansi-art-and-webcomics-bbses-and-the-artscene/

#retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics
#vintagecomputing #computerhistory #textart #bbs #ansiart

🤔 ❓
Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …

What was “ANSI art”?
What was a “bulletin board”?
Were there ANSI comics?
Heck, how do you even define "comics"?

… Well, I've got some answers:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/28/ansi-art-and-webcomics-bbses-and-the-artscene/

#retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics
#vintagecomputing #computerhistory #textart #bbs #ansiart

#Lemmy, #PieFed, #MBin, #Kbin, etc.?

This reminds me of the rise of the many #BBS networks in Germany during the early 1990s.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@thebritishibm/115689307552779714

Enjoying watching creative people enjoying doing what they love. What else could I ask of my fediverse feeds?

https://oldbytes.space/@thebritishibm/115683268740346144

#retrocomputing #bbs

there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters

Citadel history thread LETS GO!

been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991

Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities

Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays