Videos Internet Relay Chat August 29, 2025 / October 9, 2025 by ben | Leave a Comment We just dropped what might be our most personal video yet – a deep dive into the history of Internet Relay Chat, or IRC. And honestly? Making this one hit different. For those of you who weren’t around in the ’90s (or weren’t online yet), IRC might seem like ancient history. But here’s the thing: […] Read more »
Videos We rebuilt Impulse BBS in 2025.. using modern tools! June 23, 2025 / October 9, 2025 by ben | Leave a Comment A question no one has asked: could you take a 90s BBS and compile it from source using modern dev tools? We decided to find out using Impulse BBS, a platform that was huge in the underground scene back in the day. Why Impulse? Impulse was popular with scene BBSes—those invitation-only underground boards that were […] Read more »
Videos 512K Day May 23, 2025 / October 10, 2025 by ben | Leave a Comment On August 12, 2014, network operators started their morning with an unwelcome surprise. The Internet’s IPv4 routing table suddenly exploded past 528,000 routes, breaching a critical threshold that many Cisco 6500 switches were configured to handle. For 6500s running default configurations, this meant hitting a hard limit that had been lurking in TCAM memory for […] Read more »
Videos Inside the Bowling Alley Computer March 11, 2025 / October 10, 2025 by ben | Leave a Comment We just posted our latest video about one of the strangest finds we’ve come across: a complete bowling alley computer system running SCO OpenServer 5! The Find When Village Lanes in Durham, North Carolina closed its doors in 2023 after 61 years of operation, everything went up for auction. Most people were bidding on bowling […] Read more »