The Gaslight Era Internet
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:36 am
With the Hopeverse's 1880's having been Steampunk, I figure they had something like Teletype and Telex interfaces that used via-infused crystals to encode bits, and probably already used halfway-decent baud rates for something that could approach a late-seventies' ARPANET or an early-eighties BBS system.
With the Goat having probably torched a good few data farms across the globe, I figure the resistance and early restoration dug up old Clank-era Teletypes to restore some sort of super-clunky and very much non-environmentally-friendly global BBS. The paper use. God, the amount of paper this would take!
My guess is Archie would help folks dig around and restore some sort of mechanical dot-matrix based "monitor" that works like one of those pushpin desk toys...
With the Goat having probably torched a good few data farms across the globe, I figure the resistance and early restoration dug up old Clank-era Teletypes to restore some sort of super-clunky and very much non-environmentally-friendly global BBS. The paper use. God, the amount of paper this would take!
My guess is Archie would help folks dig around and restore some sort of mechanical dot-matrix based "monitor" that works like one of those pushpin desk toys...