I know how to use WinSock and C-SLIP to turn a BBS into an Internet gateway. (Alternatively: I remember the schism between IRCnet and EFnet)
lol, right!? This with a serial cable to the tower, we eventually got a 56k internal ISA. It was slow in today’s standards, but man it was cool to be one of the only kids with internet back then. Getting on IRC with all those chat rooms on DALnet and EFnet mostly. That was my first intro to kink 😎
eventually that channel moved to dalnet, a much better irc server, but we stayed on efnet because we refused to let ourselves be drawn in by the soft and effete luxuries of the weak and unwarlike squaresoft channel crowd.
We Have Always Been At War With EFNet
tried to join this online collective writing rpg thing on usenet but was an awful writer so me and a buddy started our own and declared ourselves in a permanent state of war against the final fantasy channel on efnet
🤣 AND EFNET! HA!
reintroduction thread: name: Jonathan pronouns: he/him location: Chattanooga hobbies: biking, soccer, baseball, birdwatching. I'll play any sport. I'll play any board game. Occupation: meteorology favorite ice cream: strawberry discord: nah, but I log in to mIRC efnet as foxhunter sometimes