@davidgerard Forget NNTP, I'm nostalgic for uucp over... | Charlie Stross

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@davidgerard Forget NNTP, I'm nostalgic for uucp over V.22bis modems these days! No room for large GIFs, never mind video. Web hadn't been invented yet. No advertising, no fucking new media oligarchs pwning the internet, just raw ASCII text files.

Like 2 Jun 2023 at 11:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on wandering.shop

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acb

@cstross @davidgerard Also, you really appreciate your pirated MP3s/scanned Playboy centrefolds if you have to wait a few hours for them to download (at night, when your parents aren’t using the landline).

2 Jun 2023 at 11:24 | Open on mastodon.social

Jonathan Hendry

@acb @cstross @davidgerard

You haven’t lived until you’ve waited to download a nude (non-animated) gif only to view it on an Apple IIc’s green monochrome display.

2 Jun 2023 at 19:58 | Open on iosdev.space