#oldbytes — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

#unix #oldsoftware #software #os #rescue #oldbytes #unix44

Oldbytes.space, the Mastodon instance for retrocomputing enthusiasts that hosts my main account @[email protected], has been down for several hours. Do you have any insight?

Right now I'm writing from a secondary account that will be shut down in two days, my main account is still at Oldbytes.

#retrocomputing #oldbytes #mastodon

Today marks one year of being on this instance, and I have to say I'm very happy here. Thank you to @dashie for maintaining a fantastic space for nerds like me. Long may it continue!

#OldBytes #Mastodon #RetroComputing

Nuestro círculo cercano de amigos. 💙😎 #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing #retrogames

We did it! 😍 We exceeded 1000 followers on Bluesky. 😎 Thank you all for being part of this community. 💙 ¡Lo logramos! 😍 Superamos los 1000 seguidores en Bluesky. 😎 Gracias a todos por ser parte de esta comunidad. 💙 #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

This doesn't stop! We keep adding! 🕹️ There are already more than 800 of us in Bluesky 🎉 Millions of thanks to everyone. ​ ¡Esto no se detiene! ¡Seguimos sumando! 💾 Ya somos más de 800 en Bluesky 🎉 ​Millones de gracias a todos. #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

This doesn't stop! We keep adding! 🕹️ There are already more than 700 of us in Bluesky 🎉 Millions of thanks to everyone. ​ ¡Esto no se detiene! ¡Seguimos sumando! 💾 Ya somos más de 700 en Bluesky 🎉 ​Millones de gracias a todos. #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

We don't stop growing! +400 followers! Thank you very much to all of you!!! 😍🕹️ ¡Seguimos creciendo! 400 seguidores 🙂 ¡Muchas gracias a todos! 😍🕹️ #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

+300 followers! Thank you very much to all of you!!! 😍🕹️ ¡Superamos los 300 seguidores! ¡Muchas gracias a todos! 😍🕹️ #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

+200 followers! Thank you very much to all of you!!! 😍🕹️ ¡Alcanzamos los 200 seguidores! ¡Muchas gracias a todos! 😍🕹️ #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

Thank you very much to all of you!!! 😍🕹️ ¡Muchas gracias a todos! 😍🕹️ #homecomputer #bluesky #comunidad #community #oldbytes #retrocomputing

#Introduction

Programmer since the late #80s.
Basic, Pascal, C++, Java, Prolog, Perl, Bash.

Modern times don't suit me, that's why I try #oldbytes. It looks like I would be among nice guys here and I think I am one too.

I'm here for social interaction on #programming. I have a sweet spot for #Perl and another one for #benchmarking.

After having used (and forgotten again) a dozen other languages I hope to finally integrate #Perl6 a.k.a. #RakuLang into my daily life.

I don't plan to pretend being an expert but will rather muse on unknown territory and appreciate feedback.

Many pictures from about a year ago that I posted on oldbytes.space have become unavailable and not visible.

Does anybody know what happened?

#oldbytes #oldbytesdotspace #OldbytesSpace

anyone know why @bird.makeup is banned on this instance? #oldbytes @dashie

Happy New Year to all, and a special shout out to the wonderful communities at https://fosstodon.org, https://hachyderm.io and https://oldbytes.space – my favourite discoveries in 2021 and by far the geekiest congregation of people on the planet 😍

#happynewyear #fosstodon #hachyderm #oldbytes #geekery #geekdom #geek #community

Okay, so I guess I still owe the #fediverse an introduction - well, here it comes:

like probably most people on #oldbytes (that's the instance I'm on) I'm into classic-computing and everything "retro computing". I was a teen in the 1980s and grew up with several computers of the era, namely the VIC-20, ZX81, C64, Amiga and Atari ST before moving to the PC and eventually being enlightened by the FOSS and Linux community.

For a living I'm working as a Linux platform engineer, for fun I delve into the depths and mysteries of 8 and 16 bit computing.

I also run two classic bulletin board systems #bbs, a Linux based MBSE system named "Wintermute BBS" and the infamous "RC-BOX", the world's first and (currently) only bulletin board to run on a #rc2014 homebrew computer.

I'm not a political activist but consider myself 'old fart left' since I am an old fart and have a left-wing opinion - it's been this way all my life.

So hello, #fediverse - my name is Wintermute_BBS and I'm a nerd!