• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s time to dig out and polish my NNTP client that I’ve written 30 years ago.

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        1 year ago

        In a way. Gobelin was my NNTP client, and Connector was my client for multiplayer games. I did some more work back then, like writing our companies’ SMPT gateway. Ah, those were the days…

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            1 year ago

            I remember Agent and Xnews (for poor people).

            Well, both imply that you had access to an X terminal. Gobelin and Connector were written for a text-based interface. You might have seen those things with a green on green screen and a serial connection to the host machine. Although Connector also ran as an X application, thanks to some seriously smart system libraries.