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clicked into the thread just to see if ppl mentioned tymnet and telenet what up fellow olds

• kragen 2y ago
  today? i've been watching the sun rise, benchmarking fibonacci in tcl, designing analog electronics, trying out zulip, helping ukrainians build rf jammers, listening to 80s music, building a database of historical bar data from financial markets, and watching an episode of skibidi toilet. how about you?
• howard941 2y ago
  hey there graybeard. we made it to 2024! thought I'd die before I got old.
• technofiend 2y ago
  Telenet in Houston had a connection to a local credit agency of some kind. You could look up payment history and searches may have even created profiles for people who didn't have one. I'm a little surprised there's no mention of CompuServe's billing hole. We discovered via purchase of their documentation a quick Fortran program to wipe billing info would let you stay connected cost free. By the time we found that loophole it was closed a few weeks after and clearing the info would force a logout instead.