To celebrate 36 years of SDF we've made a set of 5 postcards from high resolution scans of photos from the 1990s and a screenshot from our Plan 9 server
I emailed Brian this morning and this is what he stated.
"Coconut Computing was sold in 1995. The company, and the COCONET HOST, CocoTalk, CocoMedia, and all the other software products are long gone, alas. It’s too bad because it would prove, among many other things, that we invented Emoji more than 11 years before the Japanese company did. If we’d only patented our inventions, we’d be billionaires now. :-)"
Mentioned working on this awhile back: Humanities Washington just published a short primer I wrote on early queer BBSes, particularly ones within Washington State (there's more info on all of these boards available at the QDHP): https://www.humanities.org/blog/love-acceptance-and-screeching-modems/
Also, if anyone was active on any of these boards, please reach out! I'd love to talk to you.
On February 16th 1977 in Chicago (IL,USA) Ward Christensen and Randy Suess are about to finishing the last steps before switching the #CBBS#online.
The CBBS was the first Computerized #bulletin#board#system and would not only mark the Milestone for the Onlineage. It also allowed to invent and grow subcultures like the #demoscene. If your computer had a modem attached to it you could explore the world though it, since you're no longer physical bound to a location to do so.
In the upcoming years of #bbsing the #ansi char set would spark a whole #ArtScene that is still present and activ today. The #ANSIart Scene. Even the exchange of text messages and files would break out of the local BBS. Tom Jennings created the #fidonet which was no less than a network that spans the world and allows the communication beyond all borders.
If you think about running your own #Mailserver with #ClamAV and #Spamassassin integration, save yourself endless hours of troubles with #Dovecot and #Postfix - just deploy the #CitadelGroupware#Docker container and run one of the most reliable, easy-to-install Mail-, XMPP and Groupware servers in a nutshell!
P.S.: yes, this application has its roots in the legendary #CitadelUX#BBS server of the 1980s and 1990s and since then has evolved into a web-based Mailserver / Groupware system.