Life Patterns · draft 69 of 95, not in the published book · outline v1.0.0, 2018, frozen · 167 words · the 2018 file · read and review
BBS and Modems
In 2018 this was an outline: a title and "Topics to cover and ideas". It was never in the published book, and it is shown exactly as it was left. The second edition fills it from the articles the map names.
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Topics to cover and ideas
- How it blew up my home's telephone systems trying out BBS (I had to manually disconnect the phone line and recreate the plug to connect to the modem)
- story on my first connections to an BBS (with sync communications) and the files I downloaded from them
- story of the first BBS we published and the first couple users we had
- expand on other network concepts
- TCP vs UDP
- Routers
- NAT
- publish your own server on your own broadband connection (easy to do)
- see this video Warriors of the net published in 2002 which is a brilliant explanation of the internet, tcp packets and even security. I remember being the first time I actually visualised how the internet and its multiple components work (now take a step back and realise that all of that happens in milliseconds around the world in today's technology)
- these are really important concepts to understand
No newsroom article answers it yet. The map row.