USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
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Maybe it's time to dig out and polish my NNTP client that I've written 30 years ago.
Now that's a 4 letter acronym I haven't seen for a while.
And it still works.
Are you one of the wizards of yore? The ones who were there when the old magic was written?
In a way. Gobelin was my NNTP client, and Connector was my client for multiplayer games. I did some more work back then, like writing our companies' SMPT gateway. Ah, those were the days...
I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).
I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).
Well, both imply that you had access to an X terminal. Gobelin and Connector were written for a text-based interface. You might have seen those things with a green on green screen and a serial connection to the host machine. Although Connector also ran as an X application, thanks to some seriously smart system libraries.
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