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Fuck Internet, I want my old Usenet back! Or Fido... Doesn't matter. Anything but the Internet.
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Good thing I have a sh*tload of messages saved in HMB, JAM, and .MSG format. That way FM.TNG.LX has a proper testing environment 😎
I may post more stuff here too: https://reboot.defsol.com
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@etheriau And forty (!) years later, here I am porting code ... 😎
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@joacim You were saying ... 😉
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Ï wonder if I really need to port the Xmodem, Telink, and SEAlink code too if I go to Linux ... 🤔 😎
But now it's time to get back to #tinymash 😉
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Finally managed to find the time to reboot the Definite Solutions website to something more appropriate for 2025 and much less bloated 😊🐶🖥️💾
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Hmm ... BinkP you say ... 🤔 😎
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So, FrontDoor 24.01 (DOS) and FrontDoor 24.01 (OS/2) are now available 🙃😊🐶🚪
https://defsol.com/downloads/definite-solutions/frontdoor-re-boot
#frontdoor #ftn #fidonet #retrocomputing #reboot #programming #programmer
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Well, what do you know, you *can* revive the old days 😉
https://defsol.com/downloads/definite-solutions/frontdoor-re-boot
#fidonet #retrocomputing #retro #geek #frontdoor #xmodem #zmodem #lotech #hitech #lol #becauseican
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"Microsoft Azure Front Door" you say ... ?! 🧐
https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/azure_frontdoor/
1) The name belongs to a completely different product from the FidoNet era (1980s to late 1990s)
2) The Datadog logo on this page looks quite a bit like the Fido dog with a diskette logo
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When you get an e-mail from some, to you, unknown person, saying "thank you for writing a particular piece of software in the 1990's" and how it has helped shape their life and staying in touch with people all over the world.
Yeah, that's a pretty cool feeling 😊 Oh, and damn I'm old 😀
#frontdoor #frodo #fidonet #ftn #software #programming #programmer #developer
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CW: Long thread/3
When I got on #Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the #Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas:
https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/
When I joined #TheWELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again:
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