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stcredzero on June 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The TTY demystified (2008)

I'm old enough to have hung out with others breaking into mainframes to play Star Wars inspired text games on printed-paper TTYs. (I was in grade school at the time.)

smashing on June 5, 2012 [–]

I'm younger than that even, but I think its invigorating there is a generation trying to re-discover the innovations from that era. I wish HN had more links like this, and not just Facebook/Groupon/Bitcoin market-o-rama.

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