Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.
This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.
No DNS.
Machines screamed at each other to swap data.
@occult Kid that didn't know about UUCP bang path here. I love it!
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@occult Kid that didn't know about UUCP bang path here. I love it!
@aanee It’s very interesting to see how they solved these problems before the modern standard infrastructure and protocols were in place.
These types of solutions only existed for a few years, but they had to make do with what they had.
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Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.
This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.
No DNS.
Machines screamed at each other to swap data.
@occult Screamed? More like screeched!
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This is some proto- @prahou art right here.
To think all of this amazing art is buried in 40-year-old computer magazines.
This one is from the July 1988 issue of "VLSI Systems Design."
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To think all of this amazing art is buried in 40-year-old computer magazines.
This one is from the July 1988 issue of "VLSI Systems Design."
@occult strong Memphis style energy
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This is some proto- @prahou art right here.
@occult I recall so many of Robert Tinney’s artwork from the issues of Byte Magazine. I grew up learning about everything computing from that periodical.
I just learned in looking for these images posted here that Robert passed in 1-Feb this year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/
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@occult strong Memphis style energy
@neauoire new Radiohead album art just dropped (1988).
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@neauoire new Radiohead album art just dropped (1988).
There’s an LLM coding joke in here somewhere.
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Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.
This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.
No DNS.
Machines screamed at each other to swap data.
@occult very happy with the typography and layout in this one.
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult I didn’t know Gould made computer systems as well.
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@occult I didn’t know Gould made computer systems as well.
@DeltaWye and fantasy art!
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