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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I was playing with some old UNIX software, and in the help text the dev said they were collecting foreign currency and asked people to send postcards with foreign currency, listing their full name and personal address. It was last updated in 1995.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What software?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    A collection of games called "flying" which despite the name is a pool/billiards/curling/air hockey sim.

    I had it mentioned on a Cathode Ray Dude YouTube video and wanted to try it, which led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. As far as I could find it never got ported to Linux? But it's still in the FreeBSD repositories. So I spun up FreeBSD on a VM but couldn't get it working because it refuses to launch on X if you have more than 8-bit color, and I was having a hell of a time launching X in that mode. So I downloaded a copy of FreeBSD 4 from around 2000 and got it to run.

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