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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

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nyargh · 1790611878 · focus · HN ↗
Discovered my kid doing exactly this years ago. We purposefully limited all social media, locked dowb devices etc, but life uh.. finds a way.
I was impressed, just had the standard talk about how you have to assume everything you put out on the internet never goes away and that you really have no idea who is on the other side of the screen, never share personal information, etc
Now they are older and are on ridiculous group chats with their friends. Pretty impossible to control tbh. At least they keep me up to date with the latest memes!
1. bityard · 1790613361 · focus · HN ↗
  > everything you put out on the internet never goes away
  I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently as I've been trying to dig up information about 90's era dial-up bulletin board systems. It was a scene I was deeply immersed in at the time (or at least, one specific niche within it) and there is surprisingly little information left which is easy to find now, 30 years later. I remember the web being awash in more contemporary technical minutia than I could read in a lifetime. Now, the vast majority of it seems to be flat-out missing or at least very well hidden/distributed.
  I think it is more accurate to say, "everything you put on out on the Internet _might_ never go away." Because my experience has been, a lot already has.
  1. bilegeek · 1790636212 · focus · HN ↗
    I'll do my duty and provide some links as a fellow spelunker (apologies if you've already seen some of these):
    <a href="http://textfiles.com/directory.html" rel="nofollow">http://textfiles.com/directory.html (<a href="https://archive.org/details/textfiles-dot-com-2011" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/textfiles-dot-com-2011 or use rsync for a local copy), plus he made <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary with the full interviews available (<a href="https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5289" rel="nofollow">https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5289)
    <a href="https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index...
    <a href="https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/
    <a href="https://mirrors.archeobits.com/bbs/archives.thebbs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mirrors.archeobits.com/bbs/archives.thebbs.org/ (<a href="https://archive.org/details/bbsarchives_2017" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/bbsarchives_2017 for a local copy)
    <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955294">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955294
    <a href="https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine
    <a href="https://defacto2.net/bbs" rel="nofollow">https://defacto2.net/bbs
    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241210143429/http://sysopshub.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20241210143429/http://sysopshub....
    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBD-U-9PIg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBD-U-9PIg
    bityard · 1790688266 · focus · HN ↗
    Thank you! Yeah, I'm well familiar with Jason Scott's efforts to archive/preserve/present BBS culture and information. I've been a fan of his work for ages.
    The other links are new to me, thank you for passing them along. I'm particularly interested in that BoardWatch magazine archive. I didn't know that existed. Although now I have yet _another_ side project: figure out how to index and search it all!

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