🌈 This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol • 404 Media
｢ The digital zine is accessible on the web via a browser-based Telnet client, or if you’re a purist like me, via the command line. As the intro promises, each text piece changes—adapts—depending on various conditions, like what time of day you access it or how many times you’ve viewed it ｣
https://www.404media.co/queer-online-zine-new-session-telnet/
What next, a selfie of Linus and Nvidia's CEO?
https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/
The oldest Excel version I ever installed. Excel 2.0 from 14 x 5.25" 360K floppy disks. From 1987. Running on Windows/386 2.11. Yes, it's a slow monday at the office.
I figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on my walk back from the mall.
Wandering through the Junk PC aisle, a double-take, what is that teal beauty on the bottom shelf?
A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? The tag showed it had been there for over a week. At $60 I had to give it a home!
Lugging it home in the 31+C heat, squeezing in on the tram and dashing through the rain was a slog but it made it home!
The genius behind MacPaint, HyperCard, and so many other groundbreaking creations has left us. I like to think that Bill Atkinson is now in a better place—one where HyperCard was never discontinued, and its legacy lives on, evolving as it always should have.
#billatkinson #macintosh #hypercard #macpaint #retrocomputing
A lot of people don't know that "the internet" as we know it - the open network defined by a set of protocols known as TCP/IP - once had a broad range of competitors. Back when people were still talking about the "information superhighway", there were a number of Internetworking protocols. Eventually, TCP/IP emerged as the near-universal standard.
I presume the same thing will happen eventually with the social web. But that could be years or decades away.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
