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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you one of the wizards of yore? The ones who were there when the old magic was written?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In a way. Gobelin was my NNTP client, and Connector was my client for multiplayer games. I did some more work back then, like writing our companies' SMPT gateway. Ah, those were the days...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

Well, both imply that you had access to an X terminal. Gobelin and Connector were written for a text-based interface. You might have seen those things with a green on green screen and a serial connection to the host machine. Although Connector also ran as an X application, thanks to some seriously smart system libraries.