{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Hotline(2)!", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/96075166898/", "html": "<p>there was a chat function, which unlike the flie transfer function (derived from FTP) was derived from IRC</p>\n<p>in social terms, who the fuck cares about the underlying code</p>\n<p>there was a main channel for each given server and possible side channels, and private messaging and you were expected to have a bot, and a bot user, if you had a server</p>\n<p>there were also file directories this was the FTP part it was all about file transfer and this was the era where user-end and server connections where 14.4 to 28.8 to 56k to T1 and T3 (mythical)</p>\n<p>cable became a thing it was understood between 56k and T1</p>\n<p>people would host servers on T1+ from businesses and colleges on the understanding that this was an unapproved but worthy thing, especially after business hours (5pm local on, this was back when there were &ldquo;local hours&rdquo; because the internet hadn&rsquo;t yet made everything everything)</p>\n<p>you would download user-end software mostly games and photo/video/music processing software and also pornography</p>\n<p>a lot of pornography</p>\n<p>just like early p2p</p>"}