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[โ€“] chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No way! Really?

Here I was thinking that people were self-hosting their services on their 386 and passing outputs via carrier pigeon.

[โ€“] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

garage kitting their audio modem coupling to drive the short wave signal so now you have a broadcast BBS messaging board that can send your Commodore 64s screen output in raster packets so like five people in the U.S. and Canada can watch you play Mail Order Monsters, with band jump intervals passed around by hand at physical meetups twice a year