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Telehack - stylized ARPANET/USENET simulation

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I'd love to know a bit about what's running this. At this point I'm almost convinced it's a time machine.

While forbin is cagey, my bet is it's a single linux box running some python code, as well as shelling out to various programs (BASIC, etc). OTOH, I could be very wrong.. it does seem to have a CPU, with opcodes, that I can disassemble.. Truth or clever fiction? Half the fun.

Here's his response!

"@kymalabs single process, epoll event loop, perl. 2 interpreters, z-code and basic. old uucp maps, utzoo usenet, textfiles.com, SIMTEL, ..."

https://twitter.com/#!/telehack/status/77218678399184896

Re: Telehack - stylized ARPANET/USENET simulation

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If you want to go a little further back in time, there's a GBBS bulletin board running on actual Apple //e hardware available at telnet://aor.retroarchive.org For added effect, use Cathode.app [1] [1] http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

Why are all of the really cool apps for OSX?
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