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Steve LeachThe first computer I encountered as a kid was a 386 DOS/Windows 3.1 box. Thanks to a couple <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a>'s in local dialing distance and to <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> from there, I then grew up drenched in text lore without realizing it: mostly peculiarly academic focused <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> stuff and all sorts of 8-bit recollections. And so I learned <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Assembly</a> and C. I also now realize I inherited a lifelong nostalgia both for big-iron I've never touched and for an 8-bit era I never really used.

vga256from a very brief mention in the bbs doc from <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tomjennings</a>, i tracked down a copy of the SEAdog store-and-forward maileri'm blown away that this much functionality was packed into an MS-DOS based program that could run on an XT with 256kb of ram. it even had its own routing system.<a href="https://archive.org/details/SeaDog_4.0_Operations_Manual/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/SeaDog_4.0_Operations_Manual/</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a>

woffsIch hab meine <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/crosspoint" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CrossPoint</a> XP 3.11 Diskette noch! Ihr? <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/fidonet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/znet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#znet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mail" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mail</a>

BlackICEbbsBBS / Mailbox für Noobs: Nachrichten; PMs, Netmails, Echomails... (Teil 2) <a href="https://makertube.net/w/gHtw65RdJuQpjNyFedWvXZ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://makertube.net/w/gHtw65RdJuQpjNyFedWvXZ</a>

Exist Otherwise Has Moved<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/FidoNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FidoNet</a> should be taught in schools <a href="https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/114197879491344225" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/114197879491344225</a>

Eric Jenningsweird how some days my timeline is boring and/or unfathomablethen other days, almost everything i see is smart and relevantsince joining mastodon, i don't think i've had so much fun online since <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FidoNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FidoNet</a>(not saying that because <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tomjennings</a> is my brother (or maybe i'm his, i don't know). i made a few great friendships on FidoNet)

stanislavvПразднуем 33 года 2:5080 <a class="hashtag" href="https://juick.com/tag/fidonet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://juick.com/tag/%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%B1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Екб</a>

teledyn 𓂀<a href="https://mastodon.nl/@voorstad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@voorstad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fediversereport</a> There are, admittedly, many ways to federate, I've made this mistake before. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> is one example <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FidoNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FidoNet</a> was another, and I'm guessing Office365 too? It is decentralized sharinging which in our case is an open standard.

Joaquim Homrighausen"Tom Jennings on Plutopia Live; 09-Feb-2021"<a href="https://plutopia.io/tom-jennings-on-plutopia-live" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://plutopia.io/tom-jennings-on-plutopia-live</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tomjennings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomjennings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/techtalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techtalk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tomjennings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plutopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plutopia</a>

Joaquim Homrighausen<a href="https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pixelfed</a> I think you should look up "FidoNet" 😊 Granted, it was "distributed" and not "Federated", but if you compare technologies available at the time, I think you'll find similarities there too.Regardless, we're moving in a good direction!<a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@evan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a>

Willem Van den Ende - Writing<a href="https://todon.nl/@mousebot" class="u-url mention">@mousebot</a> thank you, I put toit-suite on the to-try list. Gnus dates from 1988 from what i found. Fidonet is 1983 apparrently (wikepedia link wont paste). I got on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fidonet</a> in 1990 - usenet years later at uni. The fido induced phone bills were something to behold 😂

lu9dce<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ansi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#bbs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fidonet</a>

Some Bits: Nelson's LinkblogThe Modem World: "A prehistory of social media", documenting pre-Internet online communication <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world/</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> #+

JuSchi<a href="https://ruhr.social/@riffer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@riffer</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nerd</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fidonet</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> Cool:<a href="https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua</a>Mein Node ist 1993 vom Netz gegangen...<a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Erinnerungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Erinnerungen</a>

Joaquim Homrighausen<a href="https://mastodon.online/@timoj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@timoj</a> And yes, a FidoNews archive would be cool. In particular for the years where the issues had some real content.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a>

Joaquim Homrighausen<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tomjennings</a> All of the FTSC documents should now be on the previous link posted. They're not external links, they point to the site where they're hosted.And, the more the merrier 😉 <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@nafmo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nafmo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@FrankauLux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FrankauLux</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a>

Joaquim HomrighausenThere ... now everything should be there 😊 (It's sad that the descriptions haven't been updated with the *actual* date of the document, I have no idea why. I've updated it for most of them manually, except for the "Reference Library" files.)<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a>

RifferIch bin alt und <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nerd</a> genug, dass ich <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fidonet</a> noch kenne und auch die große Ähnlichkeit mit dem <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> bemerke.Und das gefällt mir.

vga256new tomo devlog post: how do you deal with shitty people behaviour?<a href="https://tomo.city/#2025-01-22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomo.city/#2025-01-22</a>excerpt:after posting that "Eris-Free Net" wikipedia article the other day, it made me think about how to deal with misbehaving shards on tomoNet, and how governance works on decentralized networks.when i started thinking about creating something like tomo years ago, i often thought about Ultima Online as - not so much a model for - but an example of a network of online communities that was always interesting and sometimes frustrating to deal within-game, for several years, UO really was the "wild west" of online communities - so much was left up to players to figure out. for a long time, there were no game mechanics that enabled players to enact governance of their own (e.g. creating towns, villages, provinces and local laws). the outcome of this was that most often a kind of hillbilly/frontier justice, or outright dog-eat-dog existence, became the norm.this was great for player-killers and people who loved strife. it added some intensity to the game that no other game had, or in my view has ever had since. (WoW/EQ/etc all elected to bolt everything down and render the world in nerf)....BBSes also had governance-by-sysop/god, FidoNet with network coordinators, and USENET with its backbone cabal.tomoNet - a network of tomo shards that agree to all swap groups/posts with one another - is going to have to deal with the question of (self-) governance sooner or later. at the moment, tomoBBS has no specific controls for managing defederation and it does *not* use the ActivityPub protocol. it needs some, and i need help thinking through what the options are, for a network based on NNTP....if you've got thoughts on how your online social community was governed (or failed to be governed) by its users, i'd love to hear about it. it's a wide open topic for debate, and there are no wrong answers at the moment.<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/tomo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tomo</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ultima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ultima</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidonet</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

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