In case you feel like visiting usenet as it looked 40+ years ago, I run https://olduse.net/ - which Joey Hess originally did as an art project - where you can connect a news reader (Thunderbird, Gnus, slrn, nn, tin, Pan, or even Lynx or ELinks, for instance) and read usenet delayed 40-46 years.
> HTTP and JSON are such an insignificant price to pay for the sliver of hope that email can be saved and not being in complete control of google et al.
How would JMAP accomplish that, in a way that other protocols don't?
I think I tried programming initially when I went with my father to a course in BASIC at his workplace. After that we hauled a 300 baud matrix printer-like terminal home, equipped with a couple of sucktion cups for attaching the phone's handset, and a roll of paper.
I distinctly remember that putting the handset in the sucktion cups quickly enough after dialing the number on the rotary phone was hard.
The first real programs was probably later when I bought my Commodore 64 - in 1984. Later I even got a Comal-80 cartridge. Much nicer than the builtin BASIC!
No AI slop, luckily. And a lot of fun.
I used to run 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet address.