Karsten Johansson on Nostr: npub16fjsh…yqgzk npub1re8nm…33k6s npub19y8xk…vwxgj I used to feed UUCP news ...
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I used to feed UUCP news (usenet) and email to BBS's for a number of years until about '94, and i have to say you've asked an amazingly good question.
Some of the Usenet stuff is resurrected on archive.org, but not all of it (most of it is rubbish you have to dig through, but man, there is gold in them thar hills!) And the BBS's that were inter-operating with them are not represented at all.
AOL was the biggest joke ever told at the time. But... there were a lot of people churning out a lot of ideas we would call "content" today. And more to the point, the Well, SFNet (which was weird, because it worked almost like an arcade game), PlaNET, and maybe you've all heard of SDF, 'cos they were there back then too (of course I'm there).
Those things are gone.
I still remember the first BBS I ever called on my weird Tandy in the early 80's, complete with a black/grey lcd screen that could only do a few lines at a time -- but it was literally all you needed at the time! 110 baud modem ftw!
That's a lost decade right there, because there are surely no archives for those BBS's.
I used to feed UUCP news (usenet) and email to BBS's for a number of years until about '94, and i have to say you've asked an amazingly good question.
Some of the Usenet stuff is resurrected on archive.org, but not all of it (most of it is rubbish you have to dig through, but man, there is gold in them thar hills!) And the BBS's that were inter-operating with them are not represented at all.
AOL was the biggest joke ever told at the time. But... there were a lot of people churning out a lot of ideas we would call "content" today. And more to the point, the Well, SFNet (which was weird, because it worked almost like an arcade game), PlaNET, and maybe you've all heard of SDF, 'cos they were there back then too (of course I'm there).
Those things are gone.
I still remember the first BBS I ever called on my weird Tandy in the early 80's, complete with a black/grey lcd screen that could only do a few lines at a time -- but it was literally all you needed at the time! 110 baud modem ftw!
That's a lost decade right there, because there are surely no archives for those BBS's.