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    From anthk@anthk@openbsd.home to comp.infosystems.gopher on Wed Jul 16 07:12:15 2025
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    From http://occ.deadnet.se/

    The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
    inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
    July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
    highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
    world of popular technology.

    Also:

    gopher://occ.deadnet.se
    gemini://occ.deadnet.se

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  • From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to comp.infosystems.gopher on Thu Jul 17 09:21:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:
    From http://occ.deadnet.se/

    The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
    inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
    July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
    highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
    world of popular technology.

    And "In 2025 this week starts on Sunday, July 13th, and ends on
    Saturday, July 19th". So you're a bit late!

    I'm always using old computerss anyway. 512MB RAM would be really
    excessive in the Pentium 1 I'm posting this from!
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  • From none@none@none.none to comp.infosystems.gopher on Fri Jul 18 00:48:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    Due to fatal accident in this magnificent community, when the owner,
    master, ruler and king of pop was the first to leave the sinking ship.

    I took over in hope I can save as many drowning poor peasants as possible.

    Even before whole circus started I already knew the results.
    All premium members were able to get news the first. Ye, they knew about everything before it even happen. That's just one of many values of
    premium membershit at none.rip.

    I decided that for a limited time this prophecy will be available to all
    lost Usenet wanderers.

    To anybody who is not afraid to see the truth and burn the lies:
    none.rip on port 1900 file 028 - Old idiot challenge from 26th of June
    2025. Ye you can clearly see, that we at none.rip see things before they happen.

    If you are completely lost and no idea how to connect. For all UNIX lost
    souls using netcat:
    echo 028 | nc none.rip 1900

    Subscribe, like and follow. We appreciate every donor. Payment in blood.

    none
    none.rip 1900

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  • From Anthk NM@anthk@openbsd.home to comp.infosystems.gopher on Tue Jul 22 10:15:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    On 2025-07-17, none <none@none.none> wrote:
    Due to fatal accident in this magnificent community, when the owner,
    master, ruler and king of pop was the first to leave the sinking ship.

    I took over in hope I can save as many drowning poor peasants as possible.

    Even before whole circus started I already knew the results.
    All premium members were able to get news the first. Ye, they knew about everything before it even happen. That's just one of many values of
    premium membershit at none.rip.

    I decided that for a limited time this prophecy will be available to all lost Usenet wanderers.

    To anybody who is not afraid to see the truth and burn the lies:
    none.rip on port 1900 file 028 - Old idiot challenge from 26th of June
    2025. Ye you can clearly see, that we at none.rip see things before they happen.

    If you are completely lost and no idea how to connect. For all UNIX lost souls using netcat:
    echo 028 | nc none.rip 1900

    Subscribe, like and follow. We appreciate every donor. Payment in blood.

    none
    none.rip 1900


    Hipsters who can't write a shell script without a GitHub sponsor.

    I wish, but I don't run JS at all, C, TCL (jimsh)
    and Elisp at the OCC drove my setup.
    I didn't do formal 'OCCs', I barely switched a frontend.
    GNUs against my
    slrnpull spool instead of slrn. Erc against bitlbee.
    In the end, I do the OCC 365/24/7. No bells and whistles, no
    broken upgrades, no alerts. Tmux, cwm, xterm, OpenBSD since ages. gopher://magical.fish as my 'portal'.

    That under an n270 netbook. No, no showoff. Modern 'media' and
    'games' are just a rehash of the 90's and early 00's.
    I've seen better at Tge Twilight Zone and the 90's remake of the
    Outer Limits in order to convince me to watch Black Mirror.
    I'm out, I don't need any dumbed down advice from a mix
    between what GNU and the EFF were advicing us since forever.

    Sorry, you are late to troll, since Debian Woody I paved
    my road.
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  • From Anthk NM@anthk@openbsd.home to comp.infosystems.gopher on Tue Jul 22 10:49:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    On 2025-07-16, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:
    From http://occ.deadnet.se/

    The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
    inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
    July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
    highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
    world of popular technology.

    And "In 2025 this week starts on Sunday, July 13th, and ends on
    Saturday, July 19th". So you're a bit late!

    I'm always using old computerss anyway. 512MB RAM would be really
    excessive in the Pentium 1 I'm posting this from!


    Good enough, you can drive a lot with a Pentium, but better if
    you use some flat panel and some CF/SSD in order to save tons
    of power.

    There's an #oldcomputerchallenge channel at irc://libera.chat
    too.
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