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Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented

1 million seconds ago December had just started.

1 billion seconds ago the Soviet Union still existed, and the world wide web was invented.

1 trillion seconds ago the Sahara was a grassland. Humans were creating the earliest known cave paintings, and beginning to make and use flour.

So, things are getting kind of interesting.

In the last few hours the new user rate has jumped from around 1000 per hour to more than 2500 per hour. While this is a big increase, it is nothing like back on Nov 18, when the average was over 10,000 new users per hour.

Still, this does feel like a new surge. Mastodon struggle back in November with the last wave. Let's hope we're ready for what comes next. Big shout out to the amazing admins and moderators all over the world!

#twittermigration

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(And if you want more #teletext goodness, check out Teefax, the community-run online teletext service, at https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?c=1, and SPARK at https://tvark.org/)

just found out that Bandai made a real Sonar cartridge for GameBoy that could be used to detect fish so you could go fishing in real life.

I found this backup tape while sorting through boxes — the final resting place of Sound Bytes BBS.

Turns out I can still fire it up in DOSBox and browse through everything as a time capsule.

Though the farewell message suggests the BBS would return in summer of 1996, the world moved on quickly, and the BBS scene — as it was — disappeared just like *that*.

By the time 1996 did roll around, we were busy building our area's first dial-up ISP, and there was no turning back.

#bbs #retrocomputing

PC Mag - May 1997
https://books.google.com/books?id=I8kDx1-auSkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=twopage&q&f=false

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Random sticky note found at work today, I laughed

every single article about the fusion breakthrough is like "... and this is the first big step towards privatization and commercialization, where private business can generate profit!" said with the most gleeful of tones.

unequivocally, every single aspect of fusion power should be public domain. and the generators themselves should be nationalized and unionized in-perpetuity.

we should be treating this like the invention of fire or agriculture. to hell with energy companies.