If you ever worry about NOSTR the protocol going against the much more popular platforms.
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, CompuServe was a much, much more compelling proposition than the Internet protocols.
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Have no idea what those are . But it sounds like the 80s was a lot of fun 😊
Google CompuServe, it was like a platform version of the Internet today 😂
Is it one of those big Computers that took up the entire space in a room. Like those IBM ones I see 🙈 online.
Yes, we had one also, built in Hungary by this company:
Can just imagine the amount of energy it took Power it up . We have come a far way from those days
The difference was that in the 80's and 90's few nerds were putting together computers fighting with ESDI drives, irq conflicts and no big actor was interested into that new thing that was not commercial. Now is different. Internet is interesting for governments and companies and there are billions of unprepared users that don't even know what is inside their phone. To revive the old ages nerds should move to alternative spaces where normal people cannot access.
There is that dystopian Sci-Fi scenario, where people no longer know how to build or repair basic technology and so society slowly dies!
Yes. That is why I am going to old tech. Ebay is still full of 80-90's tech and if works perfectly. I am wiring home with analog controls instead of following their horrible standards. Good luck hacking my heater that sends data in variable duty cycle and dtmd over physical wires.
Enjoy!
Sounds like a worthwhile project.
I did tech support for CompuServe back in the day. It was very good at the time, super easy to use and reliable
I was but a humble subscriber 😞
Do you remember WorldsAway by Fujitsu?
Hard to believe that was before they outsourced all tech support to India. Playing online pool and telling people to restart their computers was cool.
I don't remember WorldsAway. What's that?
CompuServe's attempt at an online virtual world, I played it for hours.
I seem to remember my avatar had a rams head 😂
Ah cool. I wasn't a user myself. I remember it was mostly business customers and older people.
Not a user ? 😱
That reminds me of the time I had to phone CoinCorner to explain that I knew what I was doing whn buying more than £1,000 of Bitcoin and there was nobody standing behind me coercing me 😂
I asked the customer service rep if he'd read my book. It turned out he wasn't even a Bitcoiner. I had his email, so I bombarded him for months after, explaining Bitcoin and trying to convince him to become a Bitcoiner.
Compuserve was where all the cool kid hung out.
I, of course, used GEnie, a competitor.
