<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>SkyLords wrote</title><author_name>SkyLords (npub16n…ty8ka)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub16ntyfte9h8u2pjpc90su57gcw2f9c7yzsjx6uyfpmaq3tfuxk7lq8ty8ka</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>The more I explore old internet technologies the more I realize how many interesting ideas existed long before modern social networks.&#xA;&#xA;Over the past few days people here on Nostr have introduced me to systems like Gopher, FidoNet, Finger, emule and its kad network and .plan files.&#xA;&#xA;I started with a simple question about what I could do with my old Linux netbook. Somehow I ended up with a growing list of things to research.&#xA;&#xA;What I find interesting is that some of these old systems already had solutions to problems we are still discussing today.&#xA;&#xA;So here is another question.&#xA;&#xA;Do you think modern software has actually improved everything? Or have we made some things unnecessarily complicated?&#xA;&#xA;#asknostr #retrocomputing #oldinternet #linux #programming #opensource #bbs #selfhosting</html></oembed>