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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe it's time to dig out and polish my NNTP client that I've written 30 years ago.

[–] fixerdude2@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that's a 4 letter acronym I haven't seen for a while.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And it still works.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you one of the wizards of yore? The ones who were there when the old magic was written?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] pascal@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.