[TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club

[Jon Steinhart]

Andy Kosela writes:
> On 1/29/22, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > If we need another place for old farts to hang out, there are many.
> > I like groups.io, it's free for most stuff, it's super easy to be
> > a moderator, I moderate 12 groups there and am a member of a bunch
> > more.  What they call groups, we would call an email list with a
> > bunch of knobs that help keep things sane.
>
> I can speak only for myself, but I love that TUHS/COFF mailing lists
> are still _the real_ mailing lists managed the old school way.  I hate
> all those modern web 2.0 technologies with extremely bloated js stacks
> which you can only use if you have the latest version of Chrome.  I am
> still using old Atari DOS, Amiga Workbench, MS-DOS/Win9x/WinXP and of
> course Linux/FreeBSD.
>
> This is probably one of the last places on the Internet that is still
> preserving one of its core ideas in the 80s/90s -- plain text
> communication.  It has been slowly dying in the last 15 years.  Text
> based Internet of the 80s and 90s has slowly been replaced by binary
> protocols and image based interaction with a computer.
>
> I still just love using text based protocols and command line and read
> it on a real CRT monitor in full screen text mode.  We lost something
> when the world moved on.
>
> So please do not go anywhere....
>
> --Andy

I completely agree with you.  Maybe one of the problems is the
book-burners opposed to CRT.  Don't know if any of you have
ever run across this guy: http://unixsheikh.com/index.html
Seems to be a younger-ish person who seems to get it.

Jon