Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology.
https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html
If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get…
Dobbs' Lasting Impact on Abortion (Sarah Elizabeth Hogenboom-Jones/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/711401/dobbs-lasting-impact-abortion.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p132#a260617p132
Good afternoon #BikeNYC #BikeTooter. Gorgeous day out there, make sure you've got your official #NYC garbage bin before the June 1st deadline!
Ballot Box Scotland Survation poll.
With this poll commissioned by BBS, it also includes some interesting data on voters' views on constitutional issues such as cross-party working and boundary changes.
https://ballotbox.scot/survation-april-2026/
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: BBS Paranoicos (44) New Order (39) Inspiral Carpets (36) Pet Shop Boys (24) Smith/Kotzen (24). #myweekcounted 681 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
#np The Green Pajamas - Kim the waitress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAQJI-BBs0
> from: "Indian Winter - A collection of singles and unreleased songs recorded 1985-1996"
If you can conjure fond memories of Commander Keen, .arj files, nc (one of my favorite utils), shareware like SCAN108.ZIP (yea, probably in caps)... you probably spent a fair bit of time at the C:\> prompt when you weren't dialed into your favorite BBS. And like me, you're getting old :-)
#ThrowbackThursday
RE: https://digipres.club/@misty/116665540809876755
This takes me back…
One of my earliest sustained tech gigs was running and enhancing a commercial FirstClass BBS affiliated with the Gateway Area Macintosh Users Group. I created a way for FC systems to…