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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-bbs-life-at-2400bps/
1981 perdects that everyone will get their newspaper from a computer someday.
http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/
Jan 23 2014 11:06am from zooer @uncnsrdbbs-life-at-2400bps/
Modems, wArEz, and ANSI art: Remembering BBS life at 2400bps
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-
A very interesting piece of nostalgia.
Thanks for that link!
1981 perdects that everyone will get their newspaper from a computer someday.
It's funny about that. Lots of 20th century pundits predicted that all news and information would eventually flow through a computer, but they failed to envision the "anyone can be a content producer" nature of the Internet.
They thought that newspapers would be *produced* the exact same way, and only the means of *delivery* would change.
This is similar to the early-1990's mania about how we needed to build an "information superhighway" (which is what Al Gore was really whining about, when a decade later he claimed to have created the Internet). The assumption was that it was going to be a high bandwidth delivery system for top-down produced content -- essentially, 500 channels of the same old crap.
Really it was Netscape who made the Internet burst forth into its current form. Suddenly anyone could be published, could be heard, eventually could even produce video for consumption by millions. Oh to have had that kind of capability when we were teenagers making videos for the fun of it!
And of course, Big Media has been working as hard as they can to destroy the end-to-end nature of the Internet. Sometimes they succeed, other times they fail. With apologies to Sowell, the price of end-to-end Internet is eternal vigilance.
What a shame to have been going through those years during the one decade when being interested in computers was a stigma.
couldn't understand what use people would have for them. She once laughed and said, "What would I use one for,
to put my clients info on it?"
Yeah you could go all ninja with a pocket full of smartphones or something??
My eeepc 701 would be deadly -- if it was dipped in molten lead and put in a swingable bag, or say- cellotape a housebrick to it.
:(
They don't make em like they used too.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/zxspectrum/popular/ Images related to the ZX Spectrum, contains heavy doses of british humor and traces of purple dicks.
I still like the predecessor (and even play some more recently written games on my phone emulator) - the ZX81 (actually the TS-1000 'Merican version).
Not quite flappy bird, but this is fun:
http://bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html
Not quite to the level of the crazy folks that release new Atari 2600 games complete with packaging and rom cartridges, but fun to see what can be done none the less. It does become less of a task when your coding computer does not suffer the same limitations as the original (membrane keyboard), and about 1000x processor and 1000x the memory.