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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Kind of. But, without the “cool” factor. You were a geek, a nerd. Computers were for nerds for a while, the internet was like a computer library which were also only for nerds. Towards the late 90’s, it started to become cool and then suddenly everyone and their grandpa had a computer and the internet.

    It was a bit more difficult back then, too. I was dialing into Seattle (long distance) for my closest POP for the internet. Had to use trumpet for Windows because it didn’t have a native dialer, and Mosaic for a browser. Before that, it was all BBS’s. Always fun finding new sites (and we also had a “internet phonebook” that was a physical book with a list of most websites).




  • Nice. I need to really complete my game for the C64 and then redo my old high school project using BASIC on an i286 (Fantasy Baseball, have the source code printed on the old dot matrix paper).

    I love seeing people going back to their old projects and finishing them. :) I know I had a ton of ideas and notebooks filled with them (most of them are long lost).

    My old C64 game has been a project that I’ve been wanting to finish for a long time and tried moving it to other systems to keep it modern. Might as well finish the old version and then make a modern version of it, too. :)



  • Several of he hobby ones. Ben Eater (6502 based computers, 8 bit computer), local ones, history/science based ones, infosec/sysadmin/etc. ones. There are some Lemmy based ones, but it’ll take a while to build up. I’m hoping that I can contribute to them and see them grow a bit. But, others are just where I could comment and enjoy as I lack the real knowledge to contribute very much (the history/science ones that required more in-depth knowledge and not just a “Wikipedia degree of arts of internet research for obscure questions”.