• mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Indeed.

    Still, I wonder what Knuth would think of pasting screen shots of text into a text forum. :P

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      I don’t know how these fora work yet lol. I’m an old 31yo man. These fora are getting to complex. Back in my day we had bulletin board systems.

      I always wonder why BBS systems were cut off from Lee’s URI vision. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/179606.179671

      This is the original ‘web paper’. The authors might have dismissed BBS systems as too ‘toxic’? Not sure. Or maybe they did have an URI identifier, like HTTP’s is http:// and FTP’s is ftp://. Why could BBS not be ‘bbs://’.

      I dunno. I did not make the web, I just cringe that Lee got knighted for what is essentially Englebert’s On-Line system re-packaged for the go-go nighties.

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          Well I remember most stuff most kids don’t remember. Does your avergage TikTok teenager remember actually having fun with a software that is not a game? I used to love messing around with ‘acquired’ versions of a lot of weird software. Kids these days gotta be super-weird to consider Blender a non-game software they’d like to mess with .Right?

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            3 months ago

            If you don’t mind sharing, how old were you when using BBS? I don’t think I’ve heard someone your age bring them up before.

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              Oh I’m just a poseur! As it is my understanding, Usenet was for ‘grownup people’ (like Larry Wall, check the interview with him I just posted!) and BBS was for ‘hacker scene kids’. I started using the internet in 2005 when I was 12 (I did use it sparingly before though) and back in 2005 the ‘web-ization of the internet’ was not as pronounced as it is now, but it was strong enough that I had issues understanding where the interned ends, and the web begins! But well, it’s in the name, is it not? :D

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        I’m an old 31yo man. These fora are getting to complex. Back in my day we had bulletin board systems.

        Lol bullshit. BBSs were completely obsolete by like 1997 when you were 4.