Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software?

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / sof... by Jemaclus on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:36AM (#24751690)

I'm obsessed with MUDs. There's still a robust MUD community out there, but most people have never heard of them. I'm currently building one from scratch in Go. Fun times.

I also miss the good ol' BBS days. I know there's some BBS communities out there, but it doesn't feel the same without dialup. I also spent some time this summer writing Solar Realms Elite from scratch as well. I didn't finish it, but I got a decent engine going.

Speaking of BBSes, there was a networking protocol back then known as FidoNet which allowed BBSes to communicate and share information. In my more bored moments I've considered trying to find the spec and build some modern FidoNet clients/servers or whatever it is.

Short version: I really love the old text-based (ASCII ftw) internet days, and I think about that tech a lot.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / sof... by anthk on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:50PM (#24828164)

>Speaking of BBSes, there was a networking protocol back then known as FidoNet which allowed BBSes to communicate and share information.

Telnet or SSH synchro.net, still alive.

On MUDs, the Cybersphere MOO is nice, but as a non-native English speaker, emoting is hard.

I'd like it more if emoting/posing was not enforced.

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