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2026-03-17 15:34 UTC
@lorry some of the very smart cookies in CompSci (I was electronics) put together a kinda social network - list of logged in users down the left side, you could chat with an individual or as part of a group, all written on a Harris 800 (no idea what language they used for that).
One of my lab technicians was William JG Overington who invented the concept of Telesoftware (the code you could download from Teletext if you had more money than sense and the adapter for the BBC micro).
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@lorry@infosec.exchange 2026-03-17 16:41
@gulfie I worked with a lot of the old Prestel/Micronet/Compunet people in my days at BTnet - There were some great people from that era still hanging around at BT! Compunet ran a very early of MUD (so did Compuserve, confusing isn't it!) on their DecSystem 10s too. #UK #BT #Prestel #Micronet