Retro Communities

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The place to discuss "Retro Communities" like BBS, Fido-Net, Metrolink, Doors games and old forums/technology and even ANSI art.

“Retro Communities” is not just about old technologies, it’s also about the “feel” of those older communities. Text walls are allowed, asking questions is encouraged. Making a mistake is not a tragedy. You are welcome here!

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Reddit blackout made me get nostalgic for old BBSes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New to Lemmy, so i thought I'd jump all the way in. Been playing with some "old" BBSes and door games like tradewars to get some of that nostalgia feeling and wanted to share. If you were/are a sysop post it here so others can visit or ask questions like I will be to start the journey of reliving the early days of warez and digital communities.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a sysop but I’m frequently on Particles BBS with my old C64. I’m also a contributor to the BBS-like terminal client neonmodem, used for browsing Lemmy, and other social platforms, with a BBS like feel.

There’s definitely been a resurgence in “old” Internet tech. I’ve been on sdf.org for a while now and really got to enjoy the “small web” movement as it took off over the last couple of years. First through gopher and then through Gemini and most recently through Superhighway84, a distributed/decentralized Usenet-like application/protocol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome. I think the resurgence is some of us are bored with having a few major platforms regurgitate the same content and ads while gobbling up our lives as content. I personally miss the exploration of finding a new, open, and public service. Lemmy seems interesting, newish, and cumbersome enough that I’m excited to see how it evolves. It’s also rekindled my curiosity from the BBS days, the beginning of email and web browsers, when Usenet was full of FAQs and everyone wanted to share things they knew and were good at. They weren’t “better days”, things were hard to figure out, there are always bad actors, but it felt like a more tiered sharing to me. So like they always like to yell on large platforms, if you don’t like how the platform works/behaves create your own. So this is as good a time as any for us to create a new community the way we like it.