What's something that has fascinated you recently? (lemmy.world)

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[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Usenet archives on telehack.com. Its like a time capsule. I get to read all these interesting posts from the arpanet as if it was still up today. If you browse long enough you suddenly be surprised to find some famous person's casual post about whatever topic was on their mind at the time. Like I found one of ken thompson's post on the world chess championship match.

[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I get to read all these interesting posts from the arpanet

I connected to Arpanet with my Texas Instruments TI 99/4A for like 5 minutes and got a pretty angry parent with a large phone bill back in the day.

Arpanet was the original silk road.

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