In the late 1970s and ’80s, people built their own online worlds using home computers, phone lines, and dial-up modems. These systems were called Bulletin Bo...
  • Maeve@midwest.social
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    1 day ago

    A while back, someone somewhere posted asking about how we could communicate over long distances without modern devices and messaging services (or something similar). I wish I could remember who, so they could be tagged for this post.

    • sqwEnglish
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      1 day ago

      without modern devices? encrypted snail-mail?

      • Maeve@midwest.social
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        21 hours ago

        I got the feeling they meant meta, reddit, messaging apps, but internet was still operable, which led me to think of BBS, gopher, irc, ftp. This is why I thought of it itt.