Not sure if this is allowed, but I’m sure the mods will let me know.

Memories. LOL Things were so simple way back then it seems.

Did anyone host a BBS? I found this article kind of funny about ‘fixing’ WIndows by C:\FORMAT C:. Some things don’t change. LOL

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Didn’t know that existed. Thanks for the tip. Dropped it in my Lemmy bookmark folder.

      It’s really fun to me to go back and look at how the technology has progressed. At the time, you are glued into the current technology, and probably don’t have a sense for where it could all go. Keeps me grounded. A ‘touch grass’ moment for the muse.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    I’ve hosted my own BBS, but mostly downloaded from other BBSs. All those huge GIF/PNG files…

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      ASCII porn! LOL It take about 30 minutes to bang that out on a dot matrix, tractor feed, and, well, if you stood back about 5 feet and squinted one eye, it kinda looked like a pin up gal.

      • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Maybe shorter time. I had Epson Lx400 (I think, it was something …400). It was rather slow. But if you installed drivers for LX450, it printed way faster. But still no ASCII porn :)

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I really do feel like if computers had peaked somewhere in the 90s, maybe with just incremental improvements to technology at that point, that the world would be a (less convenient but) much better place today.