Great share. I was there.
FidoNet, ANSI art, getting phone numbers on newsprint mags at local computer stores, the modem screeches, AT commands, phrack and cult of the dead cow…friends you’d meet at malls and then go to summer concerts with…online was an adjunct to life, not a closed garden overwrite of life itself.
Hah. I came in just at the tail of that - needing to add AT commands to get the 56k handshake to complete. Had no idea what any of them did, but they worked and made me feel like hackerman.
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It hung up!
This is a great watch! This is a piece of our digital history that I was not in the slightest aware of.
BBS was a bit before my time but I just finished episode 1 and it was a joy to listen to stories of computing back then
The culture felt similar to what I recall from my early internet days, even if the hardware/software was different
