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Comment by 🏕️ Yretek

Re: "Introducing my grandfather to gemini!"

In: u/virtueisdead

We share your hope :)

🏕️ Yretek

2023-11-17 · 6 months ago

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🛰️ lufte · 2023-11-19 at 18:10:

I would love to hear his thoughts! I hope you do a follow up after you talk to him.

🤠 osh2Eeh8 · 2023-11-20 at 13:37:

I would really enjoy hearing the stories he relays to you. Also please let us know his reaction to Gemini. It is exciting to hear of other reactions to this protocol. In the early '90s I ran a wildcat BBS with 2 phone lines. It was a lot of fun. There are still a lot of BBS out there though most of them use telnet or ssh for connection instead of pots lines. Look up mysticbbs for one example of currently maintained software that a lot of sysops use.

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👻 virtueisdead

Introducing my grandfather to gemini! — I've had a number of conversations with my grandfather about his past as a bulletin board system admin, and you can really tell how infrequently he gets talk about it by how much his eyes light up when he gets the chance. I really love hearing his stories, but I think he might be under the impression that there's no longer any space for such things on the internet... I'm hoping today to introduce him to gemini and this bulletin board, so I can re-...

💬 3 comments · 10 likes · 2023-11-17 · 6 months ago · #gemini