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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IRC is so rad. I learned to touch type by hanging out in IRC channels in the dark on a stolen shell account in 93. I felt like a hacker, really I was a goofball talking about rollerblading on a shell account that no one cared about because they got it for free with their SLIP account.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If I learned nothing from the movie 'Hackers', it's that all hackers need to know how to rollerblade. It's like, if you don't know how to rollerblade, are you really a hacker?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

3w c4nt b3 l33t w1th0ut fru1tb00t5 0n yr f33t

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you can't rollerblade to a public phone to use your bluebox so you can call your granny for free, are you really a phreaker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

core memory unlocked.

except replace blue with beige and granny with a running a pirate BBS