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Computer History aka Tech Time Travelers

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Welcome to Computer History.

We are nolstagia driven with our choice of posts and discussion of the impact of technology.

A lot of what ends up posted here has a bias towards the 1970s' up until now simply because "we" experienced a lot of this "new" technology directly as it was released.

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[โ€“] Pronell 8 points 7 months ago

Telnet was the internet for me in the early years.

There was a bug at the local university dialup for students and teachers - if you failed to login three times it would drop you to a screen where it told you to disconnect but you could actually telnet from that screen.

I used that to go to a few internet BBS's, and then eventually to MUDs which were early text based multiuser RPGs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

sdf.org is another one that's fun to poke around on for nostalgia or learning.