On: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

[nuker]

I built a retro 486 PC, bought a modem and could not find any dial-up ISPs in Australia. The 19xx prefix is not dial-able using VoIP line that I set up (we don't have POTS lines anymore).

[prox → nuker]

Well, you can built a new internet! Just find some more computers to connect to!

[Handytinge → nuker]

As someone who did support for dial up in Australia many years ago, I've been thinking of doing this.

It would be trivial to set up a VoIP service restricted to outbound POPs.

[mynameisash → nuker]

I would - unironically - love to build an 'early internet' where we could dial in (or just emulate it via an intentionally low-bandwidth, high-latency layer over home wifi). Go back to chat rooms, islands of communities centered around a particular topic.

[Cyberdog → mynameisash]

You're in luck - here's a list of still-operative dial-up BBSes: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/list/b...

[myth_drannon → mynameisash]

There is a device you connect to your computer port and it can emulate dial up. It connects to your wifi but your computer sees it as a modem, then you type regular AT commands and instead of a number it connects to telnet BBSs.

[anthk → mynameisash]

Tildes. https://scribe.bus-hit.me/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-...