-
12 Personalities You Will Find on Nostr
Spend enough time on Nostr and the place starts developing recurring characters. Not specific people. Types. You begin recognizing them before you recognize the account. The Bitcoin guy with the orange avatar. The protocol developer who hasn’t slept since NIP-19. The privacy person who considers your browser choice a moral failure. The old internet guy…
-
Nostr Follow List: Start With 1,000 Curated Accounts, Then Build Your Own Network
A good Nostr follow list gives a new account enough people to actually see the network. This guide explains how Nostr follows work, how to import and back them up safely, how to avoid bots and spam, how to find worthwhile people, and how to turn a 1,000-account starter list into a network that is…
-
The Bitter Life of an Internet Archaeologist
The internet archaeologist does not wear a little Indiana Jones hat. Usually. Mostly he sits in front of a computer looking at something named: manual_final2_REVISED_old.zip And wondering what chain of human suffering produced it. His job is looking for the old internet. Not the current internet. The current internet is very easy to find. It…
-
The Sony PVM-2030 Service Manual Was Missing From the Internet for Decades. Here Now.
A common Sony monitor had a service manual nobody could find. That’s stupid enough to be interesting. The Sony PVM-2030 is not some prototype that spent six months inside a television station in Luxembourg. Sony sold these things as professional Trinitron color video monitors in the late 1980s. The operating instructions are copyrighted 1986, the…
-
The DIFFERENCE between PRIMAL and IRIS — NOSTR
Primal is where the same twelve people are having a very important conversation. Iris is where some guy is explaining how he built a radio out of a potato. That’s the difference. I’ve been using both, and Primal keeps giving me the Nostr popular-kids table. The big accounts, the familiar replies, the same people talking…
-
Nintendo Power: 285 Issues of Maps, Secrets, Hype, and the End of an Era
This is a history of the magazine and a guided trip through all 285 numbered issues.
-
The old demoscene party archives are still sitting there
Amiga Cracking Service , also known as ACS International. Demozoo documents the group and its Amiga releases from the late 1980s.
-
Nostr Is ICQ With Bitcoin. AI Is Diablo With Infinite Dungeons.
I keep getting a strange feeling using Nostr. I’ve been here before. Not literally. ICQ didn’t have relays, public keys, Lightning payments, or people casually posting 64-character cryptographic identifiers as though this is normal human behavior. But culturally? Yeah. I know this neighborhood. ICQ: Somebody Is Online ICQ had one killer feature. Somebody was there.…
-
I went looking for Data I/O 29B documentation.
Not because the 29B is some forgotten mythical machine. People still own them. Vintage computer guys use them. Arcade hardware people use them. They turn up on benches because some old PROM doesn’t particularly care that forty years have passed. The documentation situation is more interesting. There isn’t just one “29B manual.” There are separate…
-
CacheRat Launched: The Internet Used to Have More Attics
I miss the old internet. Not because dial-up was great. It wasn’t. Waiting half an hour for a file and discovering at 97% that somebody’s connection died was character-building in the same way food poisoning is character-building. I miss the internet because it used to feel like it was made out of people. Personal websites.…