@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

indigenous canadian, recovering academic → writer, gamedev & interactive toolsmith with a penchant for modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, classic macs, and 80s/90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming historical obscura.

→ mages & modems: growing up in the golden age of personal computers, games & internet piracy
→ kiki: a tiny homepage construction kit
→ exigy: a VB & Hypercard-like shareware game creation kit https://exigy.org

(profile: a 6¢ canada red fox stamp)

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tomotama research: https://tomotama.com
kiki: https://tomotama.com/kiki
mages & modems: computers, games and internet piracy: https://tomotama.com/books
my personal home page: http://www.dialup.party/~vga256

vga256
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

all of mastodon encapsulated in one Wilson comic by daniel clowes

A page from a comic book. It shows a man walking his dog. He is talking to himself at first, about his love for humanity. He meets another dog walker who starts complaining about their bad day with computers.

I LOVE PEOPLE I'M A PEOPLE PERSON .. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAS A STORY TO TELL, AND WE'RE ALL PART OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.

HOW TRAGIC THAT WE'VE LOST ALL SENSE OF COMMUNITY WITH OUR FELLOW MAN!

HELLO, SISTER. HOW'S LIFE TREATING YOU?

DON'T ASK! MY COMPUTER JUST CRASHED AND I LOST ALL MY PREFERENCES!

I'VE SPENT ALL MORNING GETTING THE RUNAROUND FROM TECH SUPPORT, AND WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO TALK TO SOME GUY HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON

THEY WANT ME TO DOWNLOAD SOME PROGRAM OR SOMETHING , BUT EVERY TIME I TRY TO DO IT THE STUPID COMPUTER JUST CRASHES AGAIN...

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST, DON'T YOU EVER SHUT UP?

vga256
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

for my wife: the prized high quality cup found at the local value village

is tmere anytming better tman tmat

#xmas

A mug with a holstein cow on the front that reads:

cow zoo
is tmerw anything else

vga256
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator

it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.

this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.

it can either be run online here:
https://posty.1sland.social

or instructions here for running it locally:
https://codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

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