Monthly Archives: June 2024

The Night the Modem Answered: How We Built a BBS from Scratch in 1986

Monday, June 30, 1986. The cursor blinked. The modem crackled. And then — it happened. A phone line in Umina, NSW, rang in the dead of night, and a Commodore 64 answered it. That was the moment everything changed. After six months … Continue reading

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Relics from the Past: Rescuing a Lost Adventure, 39 Years Later

2020. The world had stopped. Locked down, grounded, and suddenly confronted with more time than I knew what to do with, I did what any self-respecting hoarder of computing history would do: I dragged out the boxes. Dozens of them. … Continue reading

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