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<blockquote data-quote="Num7" data-source="post: 252050" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>[book]<em>[H]Chapter 7[/H]</em></p><h3>A Relic in the Making</h3><p>[ATTACH=full]17213[/ATTACH]</p><p>[P]Back to John's Epoch Lair underneath the restaurant.[/P]</p><p>[P]The more John added parts to his computer, the more he felt like Dr. Frankenstein. His computer was a strange, convoluted creation that would hopefully live, but not without extreme efforts on his part. Wires protruding here and there. External hardware cases. For the uninitiated, a mysterious computing apparatus.[/P]</p><p>[P]Thankfully, the floppy disk drive and 56K modems were compatible, and John got to set up the IRQ hardware channels in no time. He was almost ready to get online all that remained was the slow process of installing UNIX, then a copy of the good old Lynx web browser.[/P]</p><p>[P]John had used Lynx extensively back in 2036, as it was the norm for Internet browsing in the dystopian future he came from. The Internet, while still around, regressed at some point, into a text-only version of itself. A more primitive, yet, faster and lighter iteration of something that used to be way bigger, and much heavier, data-wise. Text-only websites, BBS forum platforms. IRC chat channels. So much old, obsolete tech that came back to life after the apocalypse of John's world.[/P]</p><p>[P]While thinking of ancient web browsers and BBS platforms, John remembered something he'd been told in history class... A quote from a book.[/P]</p><p>[D]-[/D]</p><p><em>[C]They said the Age of BBS would never come again. [/C][C]</em></p><p><em>No, it will. It has to.[/C]</em></p><p>[D]-[/D]</p><p>[P]The way they describe this "Age of BBS" suggests it was an extraordinary time... A Golden Age that might one day make a comeback? It's as though they're implying the anticipated return of heroes and legends. But these are mere online forums, right? What is it that elevates the BBS period to such high status in the eyes of the author and historians?[/P]</p><p>[P]How ironic is it, that John's experience with BBS communication systems, would help him get online in the year 2000? Who would have thought?[/P]</p><p>[P]Hopefully, if everything worked as planned, John would be online in a couple of hours.[/P]</p><p>[F]7[/F]</p><p>[/book]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Num7, post: 252050, member: 1"] [book][I][H]Chapter 7[/H][/I] [HEADING=2]A Relic in the Making[/HEADING] [ATTACH type="full" alt="007. A Relic In The Making.png"]17213[/ATTACH] [P]Back to John's Epoch Lair underneath the restaurant.[/P] [P]The more John added parts to his computer, the more he felt like Dr. Frankenstein. His computer was a strange, convoluted creation that would hopefully live, but not without extreme efforts on his part. Wires protruding here and there. External hardware cases. For the uninitiated, a mysterious computing apparatus.[/P] [P]Thankfully, the floppy disk drive and 56K modems were compatible, and John got to set up the IRQ hardware channels in no time. He was almost ready to get online all that remained was the slow process of installing UNIX, then a copy of the good old Lynx web browser.[/P] [P]John had used Lynx extensively back in 2036, as it was the norm for Internet browsing in the dystopian future he came from. The Internet, while still around, regressed at some point, into a text-only version of itself. A more primitive, yet, faster and lighter iteration of something that used to be way bigger, and much heavier, data-wise. Text-only websites, BBS forum platforms. IRC chat channels. So much old, obsolete tech that came back to life after the apocalypse of John's world.[/P] [P]While thinking of ancient web browsers and BBS platforms, John remembered something he'd been told in history class... A quote from a book.[/P] [D]-[/D] [I][C]They said the Age of BBS would never come again. [/C][C] No, it will. It has to.[/C][/I] [D]-[/D] [P]The way they describe this "Age of BBS" suggests it was an extraordinary time... A Golden Age that might one day make a comeback? It's as though they're implying the anticipated return of heroes and legends. But these are mere online forums, right? What is it that elevates the BBS period to such high status in the eyes of the author and historians?[/P] [P]How ironic is it, that John's experience with BBS communication systems, would help him get online in the year 2000? Who would have thought?[/P] [P]Hopefully, if everything worked as planned, John would be online in a couple of hours.[/P] [F]7[/F] [/book] [/QUOTE]
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