We show off wonderful convergence of retro computing and open source microblogging clients that you can try for yourself!

A collection of really amazing open source projects, where people are getting Mastodon clients to work on 70’s mainframes, the Apple II, and all kinds of crazy things.

    • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They really exist! Open source communities can be… interesting, to say the least.

        • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I dunno if it’s time wasted, a bunch of hobbyists built cool things that work on old computers, across a variety of systems and platforms.

          • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            i didn’t mean it in bad way. i totally get that sometimes money/time is not the only priority.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      These are 100% real. Many of them require hardware augmentation to handle HTTPS traffic, but they all work.