A hand holding a short section of thermal receipt paper. It has a log of entries that read as such: Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 [23:54:36] Connected to #testing on irc.lucy.bz [23:54:47] ety: oh hi! [23:55:04] ety: here is some text and stuff printy [23:55:13] ety: but even more juicy is an image, you want to try it? I know you do [23:55:17] ety: https://i.ety.onl/xaFE4/bIGADETA41.png/raw Immediately below the last line of the IRC log (containing the link), a small graphic taking about a third of the width of the paper is printed. The graphic is mostly black, but contains a grainy image of a person looking off to the side, with a hand up by their head.

Join IRC. For fun with friends on the 'net.

http://irc.lucy.bz/

#LucyBz #IRC #RetroNetworking #RetroComputing #CortexImplant

A screenshot of a Windows 98 desktop with the Inside Computer theme (showing various bits and bobs of glowing electronics) and in the foreground: * A PIRCH98 window, connected to #lobby on irc.lucy.bz, and: * A Dial-Up status window, showing currently connected to the Hive Institute at 32,200 bps

Jack in and join IRC. For the Aesthetic. For the Chooms. For the 'net we were promised. :bec_grin:

#RetroNetworking #RetroComputing #IRC #OtherNetworks #Windows98 #Windows98se #Windows9x

Running a Web Server in 1.44mb YouTube video by Action Retro

ELKS makes Tiny Core Linux and Puppy Linux look absolutely bloated by comparison. Spoiler alert: It'll run in 128 KB of memory on 16-bit systems.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=efgl...

#linux #retrocomputing #retronetworking #actionretro

36-Dec-2625 12:35 i slept at 4:38 am last night 5514 pel

@c3fax@mastodon.social 🔗 mastodon.social/ap/users/115...
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New Fax from 5514 received at 2025/12/30 13:39:05 #39c3 #telefax #retronetworking

Mon Dec 29 00:09:57 2025 booe PF. 4

♻️ c3fax: New Fax from 6008 received at 2025/12/29 00:14:40 #39c3 #telefax #retronetworking

So ziemlich das nerdigste deutsche #retronetworking Buch, das man ich vorstellen kann ist gerade auf booklooker aufgetaucht (Suchauftrag läuft schon lange): "Handbuch Btx-Recht. Mit einem Kommentar zum Bildschirmtext- Staatsvertrag" - leider antiquarisch zu teuer für den Spass. #btx #dfü

Is there anyone in #brazil who would help me by purchasing some (small/lightweight) #retrocomputing items available domestically from mercadolivre and ship them to me in Germany? #followerpower #retronetworking #brasil

What Happened to Gopher? The Internet We Lost YouTube video by OFFLINE MUSEUM

A brief history of Gopher, the global Internet information distribution protocol that preceded the World Wide Web.

youtube.com/watch?v=Flo9...

#retrocomputing #computerhistory #retronetworking #internethistory

#Nokia is closing down their Munich site until 2030: www.heise.de/en/news/Nokia-plans-to-c... - is that part of the Siemens -> Nokia Siemens Networks -> Nokia legcay, and hence also the original Siemens GSM implementation (D900, ...) #retronetworking […]

1995: The Year of the Virtual LAN YouTube video by The Serial Port

This time, The Serial Port tackles the history of VLANs.

youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1z...

#retrocomputing #retronetworking #computerhistory #theserialport

More essential viewing from @retrobytes.bsky.social.

What a way to start the weekend! 👌🏾

Thanks, John!

#retrocomputing #retronetworking #computerhistory

LaF0rge in a data centre, lifting a bunch of tangled up cables from the data centre double floor

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors)..

Homelab DSL YouTube video by clabretro

Here's another banger from clabretro! This time he's cooked up ADSL service in his retro lab.

youtube.com/watch?v=uwgg...

#clabretro #retrocomputing #retronetworking #computerhistory #telecom

Ich war wieder bei golem.de im "Besser Wissen" Podcast zu gast, diesmal zum Thema "Geschichte des hauptsächlich GSM] Mobilfunks. Das Ergebnis könnt ihr unter www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wiss... hören. #retronetworking #gsm #cellular […]

We'll be rescuing another Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchange. If anyone is interested in helping us with disassembly and loading into the truck in Munich on October 23rd/24th, please let me know - more information in German at […]

Internet Relay Chat. YouTube video by The Serial Port

Yet another awesome Internet history video from The Serial Port - this time about Internet Relay Chat or #irc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbK...

#retrocomputing #computerhistory #internethistory #retronetworking #unix

So, after spending two half days in a colocation filled with several decommissioned but fully complete including software] Siemens #EWSD digital telephone exchanges, I am happy to report that two of them will be rescued. We've dümpelt the hard disks and done some initial disassembly. Full […]

on my way to Munich today. In the odd case that anyone local in my timeline feels like meeting up tonight, let me know.
For the curious: Reason for the visit is to inspect and backup a Siemens EWSD exchange and plan logistics of its upcoming move to the Dresden telecommunications museum. #munich […]

Computer Networking and the Internet in 1994 YouTube video by Old Computers Sucked

Here's a look back at the early days of Internet access in Sweden, including an interesting bit of networking history in general, and a demo of a Swedish web site from 1994 that's still online today.

#retrocomputing #retronetworking #dialup #computerhistory

youtube.com/watch?v=WSH5...

picture of a C-DOT 256P RAX cabinet with doors open shwoing circuit boards

I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at […]

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The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted

I just stumbled over this article about the history of video telephony: https://mashable.com/archive/videophone-turns-50 #retronetworking #telecommunications

on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking... #telecommunications #isdn

Disk-less Tandys Part III - OS/2 Warp Connect 3.0 YouTube video by TJBChris

Netbooting IBM OS/2 Warp Connect!

Nice. 👌🏾

youtube.com/watch?v=d16F...

#retropc #retrocomputing #retronetworking #ibmos2 #os2warp

does anyone know a museum or collection that contains a working/operational Ericsson AXE10 digital telephone exchange? #telecom #ericsson #history #retronetworking

upstream #linux #kernel developers talking about removing the in-kernel echo cancellation code that has no in-tree users anymore (however, out-of-tree DAHDI can optionally make use of it). See https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/23/416 and the responses for details. I don't think it's critical at all […]

The two shelves of an NZ96D digital PBX from the GDR (socialist eastern germany).

A single NZ96D line card in its original manufacturer packaging.

Component side of a module of an NZ96D digital PBX from the GDR (socialist eastern germany).

IGHfT (communications museum dresden) has just acquired a NZ96D (digital PBX built in 1988 in thr GDR) in ots original wooden crates, brand new. #retronetworking #telephony #gdr #ddr […]

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Alles über ein Netz Wir sprechen mit dem ISDN-Experten Harald Welte über das lange Leben der Technologie hinter ISDN.

The German language podcast "Besser Wissen - Alles über ein Netz" by @Golemde chatting with me about #ISDN history / #retronetworking has just been released at https://besserwissen.podigee.io/120-isdn

View of a Siemens K4301 ISDN S0-Up0 Error Meter; The display is folded up/open, revealing the keyboard underneath.

rear view of the connector panels of a Siemens K4301 Up0-S0 Error Meter

At #38C3 I received a new addidion to my #ISDN related #retronetworking collection of vintage tech: A Siemens K4301 Up0/S0 error meter: osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking...

Exzellenter umfangreicher Artikel ueber die Entwicklung digitaler Schaltkreise fuer digitale Uebertagung und Vermittlung von Telefonie in der DDR: www.gheinz.de/publications/berliner_ic... #retronetworking #isdn #gdr #telephony

Spoiler Alert: The break-up of AT&T in the early 80's directly lead to the development of UTP. I did NOT know that when I woke up this morning!

youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP...

#retrocomputing #til #todayilearned #retronetworking #theserialport #clabretro