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1. James Mitchell (wotsac@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:39:03 JST James Mitchell

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   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️
   • vga256

   @vga256 if anyone finds one, let me know, or more importantly @foone

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:39:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vga256

     @wotsac @vga256 The current owners of Dynix were in fact created to keep Dynix away from people (that's not even a joke: they got sued over this), so their answer was basically "absolutely fucking not".

   • vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:39:06 JST vga256

     i've been having fun creating a DEC VT-320 styled interface for https://tomo.city which led me to rediscovering the Dynix unix system that powered many of our public libraries' catalogue searches in the 80s and 90s.

     just found out that until at least 2013, there were still telnettable dynix catalogues out there. sadly, the IPs I tried are all vacant. some of those systems were replaced.

     has anyone tried discovering ancient telnettable library catalogues via shodan? share your results!

     photo credit @skylarstrickland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dynix-Author-Search.jpg

     #tomo #libraries