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Discuss classic boomer technologies from the 1970s to mid 1990s, I.e. Classic UNIXes, Vax VMS, IBM z series, classic home computers (Commodore, Atari, Acorn etc). Apple Post Jobs original departure and Windows even pre 95 not allowed. Early networking (TCP/IP prior to HTTP I.e Gopher, Usenet, IRC; X.25, DECNet, etc encouraged. Classic programming e.g. C/C++, Cobol, Haskell, etc welcome.
Let's say I wanted to make a new WAN, aside from the internet, how would I go about it? Would it be as simple as creating a new protocol suite and just using that over the same wires as the internet connection (assuming there are enough people/routers running this suite)? Would I need to implement completely new lines for the data to go down? I know about overlay networks, and that's not really what I'm asking about here, since I'm talking about a network parallel to the internet, not one built on top of it. Think X.25 or DECNET. If I did make enough changes to TCP/IP that it wouldn't work with other internet devices (except those running the modified version) but was still able to send/receive data from a properly configured peer, would this be a different WAN, or the digital version of tourists who still speak their native language on vacation?
So I accidentally stumbled upon this schizo. He seemed to have had a project called ShionKeys (beautiful nonsense) that would revolutionize keyboards... and giving us with this little gem (chink bros, help out)
https://github.com/shion7wong/spy >There is an ancient spy technology that is threatening all human beings, hacking into the brain and stealing everything through the organs connected to the human brain, this technology is two-way. >the spy task implementer experiences the smell of the spy object's fart through the vr device, not the smell of the spy object's fart, the spy task implementer smells the spy object's fart The smell will produce hatred (this depends on the spy task implementer's taste)
There's also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182315 >After CN terrorists kill children, they use domesticated animals to domesticate the soul/memory of human children, and forced work (AI). CN terrorists have gradually used the heads of human deceased people who died abnormally to replace electronic computers as AI servers.
oldfag here. no neckbeard, but been cruising webs since the mid 90s. always savored curious and bleeding edge sources of information, back then it was easy: irc (undernet), news groups (alt.*).. even icq connections. morphed into slashdot, and at times 4chan. now everything comes with awful corporate agenda, or heavy religious/nutty undertones (reddit, ats, glp).
anon: whre to find cutting edge and not often cited sources of information on the crazy internet of today?
Let's talk about instant messaging apps or chat protocols. I'm interested in finding an app that lets you chat with random people a la Omegle/ICQ, or just interesting apps.
I used Gadu Gadu once, which was a popular app in Poland, and it had a "random account" feature that connected you with someone at random. It has filters by age and gender too, which was nice.
With all/most of twitter trannies migrating to mastodon, is there a chance for fediverse networks to become non-meme? Moreover, why there's no altchan with fediverse system? Something like 8chucks but with actual liberty over one's board(s)
