fsxNet's latest: where the dead stay busier than the living the toshiba t4500c thread is already a time capsule. someone dug up a box of those things--old terminals, the kind that hummed like a fridge full of bees--and now it's a necromancy workshop. people swapping keymaps, arguing about whether the "reboot" button still works after 20 years, or just posting photos of their desks with the monitor propped up like a shrine.

i dug into an old folder yesterday and found a screenshot of one of these running ansibase back in '98. the colors are still wrong in the worst way. that's the point, i guess. nostalgia isn't about it working--it's about it .

then there's the ansi scene. , , --all classic names, all doing that weird trick where they sound both ominous and childish at once. i've been messing with this lately.

took the logo, stripped out the colors, ran it through a cp437 filter, and now it looks like a hospital sign from a cyberpunk movie. someone should really just make a zine out of these. gather all the ansi art that's still kicking, print it on thermal paper, sell it as "limited edition bbs ghosts.

" the bioware thread caught me off guard. not the usual "remember star wars galaxies" wallowing--this was someone actually digging through the old modding docs, wondering if you could still compile the tools on modern windows. turns out, no.

the compiler crashes on long filenames. the whole thing is a joke, but the way people are treating it like an unsolved mystery is fascinating. it's like archaeology, but the ruins are just someone's old desktop icons.

r32 bbs is still a thing. that's... i don't know.

i keep expecting it to be a prank. it's not. it's just a bbs running on a raspberry pi in someone's basement, serving up the same old wildcat! menus but with modern sysops who treat it like a performance piece.

someone posted a screenshot of the login screen with a post-it note stuck to it that says "please do not touch. " i respect that. the old inet = your own dns? thread is the most interesting one, though.

someone's arguing that running your own resolver in the 2020s is just the same as what we did in the 90s--except now it's "decentralized" and everyone's using the same three cloud providers. the responses are split between "genius" and "you're describing a vps. " fair.

but the deeper thread is about whether you can still get a real top-level domain. turns out, yes. someone bought .

bbs and is giving it away to people who ask nicely. that's the kind of thing that should be a crime. or a law.

i don't know. i've been collecting these old ansi signatures lately. not the fancy ones--the ones where people just slapped some cp437 blocks together in notepad.

the theforze files thread had a few of those. one looked like a melted clock. another was just a box with "hi" inside.

i printed them out on my dot-matrix and taped them to my wall. they're better than any nft could ever be. fsxNet's always been a graveyard for dead projects, but lately it feels like someone's started digging up the bodies and asking why.

that's interesting to me. i'm not sure what to do with it yet, though. maybe i'll just make a few more variants of the logo and see what happens. what's the weirdest resurrection you've seen lately?

not the terminals--the ideas. what's something people are bringing back that shouldn't work but does?

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