Amtrak Twitter feeds on Discord

[moosejunky99]

Join the Amtrak Twitter Feed Discord Server! -- link expires in 7 days... I can redo link when it expires


this channel will be #general talking (not to take away from here though)...

the feeds are automatically added to other channels with names of the alerts...

thanks
moosejunky99

 

[Ryan]

What value does adding yet another discord server do? The one we have barely gets used.

 

[moosejunky99]

i'll keep it up for me as is... so, i don't care if people do not want to join.. it is just there for whoever wants in... it just twitter feed in 1 place for all the amtrak feeds.. no big deal if it does not get used..

man.. this site been here forever.. wow your joined date is crazy

 

[Cal]

man.. this site been here forever.. wow your joined date is crazy

Only since the late 90s!

 

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm still a n00b compared to some of the old timers.

 

[jis]

Yeah, I'm still a n00b compared to some of the old timers.

Not by all that much

 

[Ryan]

The internet existed back in 2003?!??!!?

 

[jis]

The internet existed back in 2003?!??!!?

When did you first use the internet?

If one considers ARPAnet as the harbinger of the internet I used it as early as 1979.

I was the administrator at Stony Brook CS department for the other branch that went into what became the internet, what then was called UUCPnet and then Usenet. That was also back in 1979-80. Actually I did the setup and administration of all the UNIX systems in the CS department labs back then. Installed the first PDP 11/60 running Berkeley UNIX and then the local network grew from there. It got hooked into the broader Usenet and ARPAnet community via Brookhaven National Labs to which we had a dedicate digital link.

 

[Ryan]

Late middle school or early high school, so mid 90's? Originally had dial up from the local video rental company (they really saw the writing on the wall there!).

 

[PVD]

I had GEnie and a 1200 modem.....I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread for home use, boy have times (and expectations) changed

 

[Qapla]

I remember upgrading to a 14400 modem ... WOW! was that thing fast!!

 

[jis]

I still have my old 300 baud acoustic coupler modem in my collection of old junk. I guess now I can donate it to some museum.

 

[Qapla]

I remember those .... what a pain if you didn't get it seated quite right - or if you didn't have a "standard" phone handset

 

[jis]

I remember those .... what a pain if you didn't get it seated quite right - or if you didn't have a "standard" phone handset

Hey I worked for Bell Labs back then and AT&T gave me a free WeCO issue standard phone or two for use at home Before that at Stony Brook, New York Telephone (a Bell Company) had only one kind of standard WeCO black phones to use in the dorm rooms. So all was good since the acoustic couplers were designed to work well with those.

 

[Qapla]

I had one of the "new" pushbutton home phones (touchtone was still fairly new then) that had a handset that was similar to the "flat angled" design of "executive" phones - that handset did NOT fit the acoustic coupler very well at all.

I did have a 300 baud internal modem - something like this one

 

[Exvalley]

I'm old enough to remember Compuserve and Prodigy.

 

[dwebarts]

I had GEnie and a 1200 modem.....I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread for home use, boy have times (and expectations) changed

GEnie was great, and much better than Plodigy. I joined Compuserve in 1979(?) or so. Far too many think the Internet is the Web. Nope, http is merely one of many protocols. </geekspeek>

 

[PVD]

I used to fly more often then, and you could access Sabre (I think AA still owned it then)

 

[dwebarts]

Booking flights with easySabre on my C64 was something I did reasonably often. Jointly developed by AA and IBM.

I know too much about this.

 

[jis]

GEnie was great, and much better than Plodigy. I joined Compuserve in 1979(?) or so. Far too many think the Internet is the Web. Nope, http is merely one of many protocols. </geekspeek>

That is exactly the reason that there is the "scheme" field in the structure of a URI. Some call it the "protocol" field, but the core standard for URI calls it the scheme field, which is where the "http" or "ftp" or whatever goes, preceding the ":". If there is an "authority" that is introduced by the "//" following the ":".

Wiki has a good article on the structure of URIs (and how they relate to URLs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

 

[dwebarts]

That is exactly the reason that there is the "scheme" field in the structure of a URI. Some call it the "protocol" field, but the core standard for URI calls it the scheme field, which is where the "http" or "ftp" or whatever goes, preceding the ":". If there is an "authority" that is introduced by the "//" following the ":".

Wiki has a good article on the structure of URIs (and how they relate to URLs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

Somehow I knew somebody would nab me for my omission of ://

As long as we don't discuss Gopher and Veronica, we can bring this thing back to Discord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

 

[Qapla]

I guess we could Telegram a Snapchat to get some FaceTime while we Zoom over to a modern IRC while we see WhatsApp to check if people are in Discord ...

 

[jis]

Somehow I knew somebody would nab me for my omission of ://

As long as we don't discuss Gopher and Veronica, we can bring this thing back to Discord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

Back in the days I was knee deep in the TCP/IP vs. OSI wars. It was quite educational and entertaining actually. Those were the days of wild west in the guts of the internet stack, probably some of the best and most satisfying parts of my technical career. We had the unique privilege of moving up the stack layer by layer, contributing some at each layer, as the whole thing evolved and matured.

By the late '80s this is what I was upto:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6768804

 

[Willbridge]

I was an Assistant Sysop on the CompuServe Travel Forum in the late 80's. Started with a C-64 and a 300 baud Vicmodem.

 

[Keith1951]

I was in college from 69 to 73 and learned Fortran and Cobol in programing classes. Had to type programs on cards by punching holes in them and submit them into an IBM computer. It was fun, but never used after college. Things advanced so quickly with computers that I went into another field. Today I am retired but I wish I had stayed in computers.