My first modem was a 1200 lol. I'm not quite old school enough for the 300s that you had to hook up to the phone receiver. I remember my first 56k. I couldn't believe how fast it downloaded images. I mean, it only took 10 or 15 seconds instead of 60 lol
Been writing code since I was 8. Got a TRS-80 from a garage sale for $5 my dad gave me. Brought it home, figured out how to hook it up to the TV, turned it on. It said "The BASIC Programming Language". Had no idea what that was so went to the library. The rest is history.
Oh damn. Haven't thought about TradeWars or Barren Realms in decades. The good ol' days.
Ha! I ran a BBS out of my bedroom on a 3600bps modem. I coded the BBS myself in QuickBASIC. It was fun being a sysop as a teenager lol. Still can't believe my dad paid for an extra phoneline so I could goof off like that.
It reminds me of my Telnet days pre www. I would log into MUSE/MUCK/MUD systems (Multi-User Simulated Environments that were like programmable chat rooms). This has that grungy coder feel to it. I love it.
I love that too, and the fact that the Global feed isn't overwhelming yet. That will change in time, but for now it's really cool to watch the new posts in real time.
No doubt! As a software dev myself I don't mind it being a bit rough in the meantime.
I should have said, using astral + alby. Thanks for making that post about who's holding your keys. I just created my keys this evening and had I not seen that post wouldn't have thought to use that browser extension.
I'm loving the concept so far. The UI is a bit rough (using astral) but I'll take a censorship resistant protocol with a rough UI over other social media every day of the week and twice on Sunday!