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Something that fascinated me back in the day (and something that I have not seen mentioned, whenever BYTE comes up here), when I as a teenager read BYTE (initia
by bouvin 4y ago
Something that fascinated me back in the day (and something that I have not seen mentioned, whenever BYTE comes up here), when I as a teenager read BYTE (initially borrowed from the local Danish municipal library) was the transcripts from BIX [1]. It offered a tantalising view into the world of BBS (and what would come later through Usenet etc), before such things were widely accessible.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange
- ghaff 4y agoUsenet and the pro-Internet/ARPANET in general was more of a parallel Unix-centric universe than something that came later. BIX, like Compuserve/Delphi/etc., was one of the big commercial services--though possibly more hacker-oriented than some--which was also somewhat separate from the TRS-80 in the bedroom hobbyist BBSs (though some of the PC-based BBSs also became fairly large and commercial latterly).