Merlin The Enchanter. Illustration by Gustave Doré (1878)

https://imgur.com/gallery/merlin-enchanter-illustration-by-gustave-dor-1878-ImWOowq

#illustration #drawing #draw #engraving #book #legends #poetry #author #vintage #ancient #retro #art #culture #history #literature #graphicart #wizard #magic #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #gustavedoré

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Merlin The Enchanter. Illustration by Gustave Doré (1878)

this is cool to see

https://lataco.com/ninja-turtles-pizza-la

#retro #TMNT #ninjaturtles

What strength! But dont forget there are guys like you all over the world (Street Fighter, Capcom, Arcade, 1987) #retro...

"In December 1993, the New York Times published an article about the “limitless opportunity” of the early internet. It painted a picture of a digital utopia: clicking a mouse to access NASA weather footage, Clinton’s speeches, MTV’s digital music samplers, or the status of a coffee pot.."

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/the-web-we-lost/

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #asitwasbefore

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#asitwasbefore

Far-Out Iron Ons, by the Topps Company, 1975

Decorate your own #1970s t-shirt! Featuring:
- Let's streak!
- Bazooka Gum
- Master of Kung Fu

#retro #1970sfashion #70s #genx #americana #fashion #diy #culturalhistory

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Far Out Iron-Ons. Collect all 12!

Dial up the old internet
https://dialuptheoldinternet.org/

An ode to the old Internet, a guide to digital archiving, a celebration of retro tech.

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #webzine #indie #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #protocols #creativity #asitwasbefore

The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.

A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #webzine #indie #press #writers #readers #fediverse #internet #history #protocols #creativity #asitwasbefore

Honestly, I wasn’t sure at times if I was ever going to receive my KS reward for this project, but here it is in my hands!

#TTRPG #DCC #DND #Horror #Fantasy #Monsters #Retro #KickStarter

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An issue of "Old Timey Monster Mania Family Hour" featuring a werewolf-like character with exaggerated facial features and sharp teeth. The cover includes text promoting various themes, such as "The Farm That Drank Blood!" and "Toxic Tapes

Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now?
I've talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see more past
https://setsideb.com/who-owns-softdisk-and-big-blue-disk/
#niche #retro #bigbluedisk #CatacombGames #FlatRock #GamersEdge #loadstar #niche #preservation #retro #softdisk #SoftdiskPublishing

Return of the Colonies. Illustration by David A. Hardy (1981)

https://imgur.com/gallery/return-of-colonies-illustration-by-david-hardy-1981-ebzx5za

#illustration #drawing #draw #painting #paint #book #ebook #scifi #sciencefiction #novel #author #readers #author #writers #vintage #retro #art #history #earth #space #aliens #davidahardy

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Return of the Colonies. Illustration by David A. Hardy (1981)

Probably the game I've played the most on #Linux

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
An excellent Rogue Like #opensource, check it out if you like the genra:
https://crawl.develz.org
Graphical or console.

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

#roguelike #rogue #tactic #fantasy #RPG #dungeon #dungeoncrawler #Freeware #gaming #games #videogames #videogaming #retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers

Dungeon Crawl

Today in ASCII Mode on #Linux Mint

#roguelike #rogue #tactic #fantasy #RPG #dungeon #dungeoncrawler #dungeoncrawl #Freeware #gaming #games #videogames #videogaming #retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers

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Dungeon Crawl Today in ascii Mode on #Linux Mint

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Dungeon Crawl Today in ascii Mode on #Linux Mint

I tried #FREEDOS one time.. and all go bad installing it.

MSDOS is better for me..

But I will try one more time..

#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #vintage #retro #os #system

The First Console RPG
Proclaiming something for sure in the realm of vidyagaems is just asking to be challenged and possibly humbled. Yet it seems likely that the first true video RPG, as pointed out by -Eclipse14- in this video (10½ minutes), is the Atari 2600/Supercharger game Dragonstomper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_VVzQ0K0Q

I have played
https://setsideb.com/the-first-console-rpg/
#niche #retro #2600 #Arcadia #Dragonstomper #niche #retro #rpg #Starpath #Supercharger

I spent hours poring over the different issues of ELPIS magazine, literally absorbed. If you liked this internet from the 1990s and 2000s, I can only recommend that you take a look. Fascinating! Written with passion. Rich in anecdotes..

https://elpis.ws/cgi-bin/cms/articles

#ELPIS #magazine #webzine #ezine #fanzine #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #smallwebzine #indie #press #writers #readers #fediverse

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If you liked this internet from the 1990s and 2000s, check ELPIS webzine!

This was another cool #doom mod I've been playing called take en doom and its pretty much an #invaderzim themed mod which tweaks the gameplay and I personally like this mod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUyHzAWmR0

#retro #gaming #retrogaming #doommods #uzdoom

OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech

+++ Ausics (Australia)

https://newsgroups.ausics.net

https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com

http://news.chmurka.net

http://csiph.com

https://dotsrc.org/usenet

https://www.eternal-september.org

https://news.gegeweb.org

https://news.hispagatos.org

https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

https://soc.octade.net/sysop/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #sysop.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

https://soc.octade.net/cypherpunk/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #cypherpunks.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro #cypherpunk #crypto #cryptography #encryption

@cryptography@soc.octade.net @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net

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Glowing green-lined skull on black background with digital circuit board lines and one eye a glowing bitcoin symbol and the other eye a glowing hashtag with the tagline 'CYPHERPUNK REVOLT'.

[for your address book]

https://soc.octade.net/usenet/

A #Fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #Usenet and #NNTP or #NetworkNews.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en). Image attribution: Benjamin D. Esham / Wikimedia Commons.

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A graphical interpretation of the "Big Nine" hierarchies on Usenet. The image shows a grid with the name of each hierarchy in a square cell. image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en). Image attribution: Benjamin D. Esham / Wikimedia Commons.

https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf

Pugleaf sports a web portal and built-in administrative tools.

#Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #NNTP #NetworkNews

alt.2600
alt.2600.hackers
alt.anagrams
alt.anonymous
alt.centipede
alt.cyberpunk
alt.cypherpunks
alt.folklore.computers
alt.html
alt.rhubarb
alt.sources.crypto
alt.ygdrasil
comp.os.linux.advocacy
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.plan9
comp.risks
eternal-september.talk
grc.techtalk
grc.techtalk.retro
hispagatos.talk
news.software.nntp
rec.puzzles
sci.crypt
sci.crypt.random-numbers
sci.math

#Usenet #NetworkNews #NNTP #retro #social

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @selfhosting@a.gup.pe

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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.

https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/

#NNTP #Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #PugLeaf

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe

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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

#BBS #telnet #retro #networking