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Has anyone played Nethack? 👀

Wiki: NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape.

https://www.nethack.org/

notmandatory 4mo ago 💬 4

While a student in the late 90s I worked the weekend graveyard shift as a datacenter "operator". My primary duties were change the 1/2 inch backup tapes and racking them with their corresponding green bar printout logs. I also cleaned the backup drive heads with a q-tip and isopropyl alcohol and made sure all the nightly batch jobs finished.

I also read Usenet news, chatted with strangers on Bitnet Relay and played a lot of NetHack. Good times.

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 4mo ago

No quake?

7fqx 4mo ago

Railgun icon would be good for a client I reckon lol

7fqx 4mo ago

Amazing, it also sounds like the start of an X Files episode or something lol

7fqx 4mo ago 💬 2

Do all 3 of these things still exist btw?

I know Nethack does, never heard of bitnet and I *think* Usenet still exists(?)

notmandatory 4mo ago 💬 1

The internet definitely killed BITNET relay, but the concepts it pioneered live on in IRC. AFAIK UUNET news and readers still exist but are not installed by default on any modern systems.

It's cool and interesting to see new tools like #bitchat incorporate concepts from both. BITNET relay used / syntax and UUNET was a decentralized store and forward, P2P relay based system.

7fqx 4mo ago

Is uunet the same thing as Usenet?

Shawn 4mo ago

Pour one out for BITNET. 🙌🏼