• @Tangent5280
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    99 months ago

    Are you one of the wizards of yore? The ones who were there when the old magic was written?

    • @Treczoks
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      49 months ago

      In a way. Gobelin was my NNTP client, and Connector was my client for multiplayer games. I did some more work back then, like writing our companies’ SMPT gateway. Ah, those were the days…

        • @Treczoks
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          19 months ago

          I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

          Well, both imply that you had access to an X terminal. Gobelin and Connector were written for a text-based interface. You might have seen those things with a green on green screen and a serial connection to the host machine. Although Connector also ran as an X application, thanks to some seriously smart system libraries.