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Roberto Plà<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.es/@aperalesf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aperalesf</span></a></span> Compuserve era un servicio de una empresa norteamericana 'pre-internet', competidor de America-Online que se expandió por todo el mundo a base de nodos "locales".<br>Esto era a principio de los 80 y mi nodo 'local' estaba en Barcelona. Yo pagaba una cuota mensual, un precio por minuto de conexión y la conferencia interprovincial. En definitiva unas 8000 pesetas de la época a la hora. <br>Pero cuando hacias una pregunta sobre el compilador C de Boland es probable que te contestase uno de los ingenieros que lo había diseñado. <br>Compuserve puso una pasarela a Internet, pero cuando pusieron Infovia yo me borré porque el precio de conexion esa insostenible. <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/compuserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compuserve</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/dinosaurios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurios</span></a> <br><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuSer</span><span class="invisible">ve</span></a></p>
retrocompmx<p>El 1 de julio de 2009 cierra el servicio original de CompuServe (su correo siguió funcionando un par de años más). Fue un pionero en servicios en línea desde 1979 antes de la llegada de la web. AOL había adquirido CompuServe para integrar sus servicios y eventualmente desaparecerla<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputingmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputingmx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compuserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compuserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerhistory</span></a></p>
Retro Techie<p>Welcome to CompuServe (circa 1995)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/90sComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90sComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalNostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalNostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldSchoolTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldSchoolTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechThrowback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechThrowback</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1990sTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1990sTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CompuServe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompuServe</span></a></p>
GabeMoralesVR<p>Growing up, my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dad</span></a> always went with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/underdogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>underdogs</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> world, and it trickled onto me. We lived in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>. We didn't have a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nintendo</span></a>, we had a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sega</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MasterSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MasterSystem</span></a>. We didn't have an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel</span></a> processor, we had Cyrix. We didn't use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iomega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iomega</span></a>, we used SyQuest. We didn't run <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows98</span></a>, we used <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>. We didn't go with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOL</span></a>, we went with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compuserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compuserve</span></a>. That spirit of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/offthebeatenpath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>offthebeatenpath</span></a> was awesome to grow up with, I saw so much cool obscure shit that others people never saw.</p>
Aaron Kuhn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@wossman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wossman</span></a></span> The migration of traditional <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> software to Windows 3.1 is something I have functionally zero memories of using and have never heard anyone fondly recall. </p><p>You would think these things would have found a place as a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CompuServe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompuServe</span></a> / <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOL</span></a> alternative with the usability improvements, but I don’t think they had the network reach to draw new people in to the BBS scene </p><p>My working theory is Grandma and the new users that needed to be pulled in wasn’t interested in learning <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wildcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildcat</span></a> UI to swap letters with Phyllis down the street. The ease of use wasn’t enough. These people wanted to communicate with those over distances they couldn’t personally bridge by foot or car, which is where the national providers ate the lunch of the BBS “version 2.0”. </p><p>From a personal perspective I wanted nothing to do with these new GUIs and mouse driven interaction. The 80x25 terminal was its own aesthetic and style. Take the BBS into 320x240 and swap in TrueType fonts and the whole experience is just lost. </p><p>Outside local small business customers looking to run support / employee sites, I’m not sure who they thought were going to take up these new interfaces and departures.</p>
Radio Free Trumpistan<p><a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashTagGames</span></a><br><a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=TextsFromThe80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextsFromThe80s</span></a></p><p>Sorry but I don't trust email because of the <a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=RIME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIME</span></a> Space Moose. Everyone else has a bit-bucket, but RIME has Space Moose.<br>|\/\/\OO/\/\|<br>Let's continue this conversation by <a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=SnailMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnailMail</span></a> please.<br><a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=Compuserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compuserve</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/search?tag=SubGeniusSIG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SubGeniusSIG</span></a></p>
Clean Design<p>I was reading a story today about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theoldnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoldnet</span></a> and how if you leave an “&amp;” symbol at the end of an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> , it means you want the recipient to reply back. Does anyone remember this or still do this today? I don’t recall that being a thing or maybe it was and I didn’t notice. Gonna tag below with adjacent words in hopes of response.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrotech</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@ActionRetro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ActionRetro</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> #486 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prodigy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prodigy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netscape</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/icq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>icq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compuserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compuserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/angelfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>angelfire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a></p>
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freespiritlinux69 :fedi:

Mein Weg zu Linux!

Mein Einstieg in die Welt von Linux verlief ähnlich wie bei vielen anderen.
Mein erster #Computer war ein #Schneider/#Amstrad CPC 464, gefolgt vom Commodore 64 und später dem #Amiga 500+. Diese Geräte markierten den Beginn meiner Leidenschaft für Videospiele.
Anschließend kam ein PC mit einem #Intel 386 Prozessor und einem Internetanbieter von #Compuserve. Dies war mein erster Schritt in die Windows-Welt, und ich begann mit der Version 3.11. und dann W95.
Der PC, den ich damals hatte, wurde hauptsächlich zum Spielen und gelegentlich zum Schreiben verwendet. Zu jener Zeit war der Zugang zu #Software natürlich nicht so umfangreich wie heute. Es gab nur eine begrenzte Auswahl an Programmen und Spielen, was die Nutzung des Computers stark beeinflusste.
Dann kam Windows #XP, das damals als das ultimative #Betriebssystem galt und bis heute als eines der besten Windows-Versionen, das aus Redmond veröffentlicht wurde. Es revolutionierte die Nutzung von PCs und setzte neue Maßstäbe in der Benutzerfreundlichkeit und Stabilität.
Als Nächstes kam Windows #Vista, das das komplette Gegenteil von XP darstellte. Es wurde weitgehend verhasst und war, um es milde auszudrücken, einfach nur enttäuschend. In dieser Zeit begann ich, nach einer Alternative zu suchen, da ich mit den Problemen von Vista unzufrieden war.
Die erste Linux-CD, eine runde silberne Scheibe, war #knoppix Ich glaube, ich habe sie damals in einer Computerzeitschrift entdeckt. Ich versuchte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, aber das war damals alles andere als einfach, im Vergleich zu den heutigen Möglichkeiten.
Mein Glück war, dass es sich bereits um eine Live-CD handelte. Ich war überrascht, dass ich es schaffte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, ohne Windows vorher zu starten.
Ich war zunächst überrascht, wie einfach das mit der Live-CD funktionierte, und experimentierte eine Weile damit herum. Dennoch konnte ich mich nicht wirklich damit anfreunden. Also blieb ich weiterhin bei Windows, auch wenn es mich oft frustrierte. Eines Tages hatte ich Kontakt mit einer Firma, der ich ein PDF-Dokument per E-Mail zusenden sollte. Ich verschickte das gewünschte PDF und wartete auf eine Rückmeldung. Als ich nach einer Woche nichts gehört hatte, rief ich die Firma an, um nachzufragen, ob sie das Dokument erhalten hätten. Dabei wurde mir mitgeteilt, dass sie grundsätzlich keine PDFs öffnen, die per E-Mail verschickt werden, da sie mit Windows arbeiten und befürchten, dass sich Schadsoftware im PDF befinden könnte. Das war für mich der Wendepunkt: Ich entschied, Windows endgültig den Rücken zu kehren und auf Linux umzusteigen, egal mit welchen Aufwand auch immer.

#Linux#Opensource#Freiheit
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Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos · Repórter Retro 108 - RetrópolisEste é o Repórter Retro 108, produzido pela A.R.N.O. (Agência Retropolitana de Notícias)! MP3 para ouvir offline Escute no YouTube Do que falamos? 30 anos do projeto Virtual Library 30 anos do Elite Parte A e Parte B do nosso dossiê Elite 2 em OpenGL 45 anos do CompuServe 45 anos do processador 68000 da
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John Goerzen

@eludom Occasionally, buried deep in a ZIP file that has been corrupted for more than 20 years, zip -FF from Info-Zip 3.x is able to resurrect something.

Today it's #TAPCIS. TapCIS was a front-end to #CompuServe which I wrote about recently at floss.social/@jgoerzen/1131983 . CompuServe charged by the hour, and many people also had to pay by the minute for long-distance fees. So TapCIS would download stuff (messages, files, and file lists), and then you can read offline.

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FLOSS.socialJohn Goerzen (@jgoerzen@floss.social)"45 Years Ago, #CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web" - https://www.wosu.org/2024-09-24/45-years-ago-compuserve-connected-the-world-before-the-world-wide-web . That was one of my first online experiences. I still remember I was 71510,1421 over there. And a wave to former CompuServe employee @eludom@fosstodon.org
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