The Crankiest Group in Cyberspace

https://www.echonyc.com/about/

by TheSpiceIsLife • 7 years ago

64 18 7 years ago

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taneq• 7 years ago

Wait, the crankiest group in Cyberspace isn't Star Wars fans?

okareaman• 7 years ago

I miss suck.com

jeffrallen2• 7 years ago

A fish, a gun, and a smoking barrel.

ArekDymalski• 7 years ago

"The conversations on Echo are not on the web (yet). Once you have a userid (also called a login id) and a password, you must either dial us up directly, or telnet to us from anywhere in the world on the internet. When you open an account, we'll send you instructions in the mail (postal mail). This will take a couple of days."

floatingatoll• 7 years ago

Oh, this is lovely. It’s what we had before Dejanews and Altavista and Google came along and indexed everyone for free-text search. You could have conversations and reasonably expect that only people looking up the forum topic would then be able to see the conversations you’d had. This is dreamy.

I hope they never allow web (Google etc) search indexing of any kind, it would destroy them utterly.

B1FF_PSUVM• 7 years ago

Copyright 1998-2001,

Sounds like an alt.flame offshoot going back to BBS tech

jeffrallen2• 7 years ago

A fish, a gun, and a smoking barrel.

dajohnson893• 7 years ago

is there a remotely compelling reason for me to trust them with my physical address?

EliRivers2• 7 years ago

Self-selecting target audience; not you.

dajohnson893• 7 years ago

anyone interested in this group is the target audience. therefore I'm in the target audience.

orf• 7 years ago

People silly enough to give their address out to randomness on the internet?

nimih• 7 years ago

if only there was some way to receive mail without providing your physical address. perhaps some sort of numbered "box" at the post office that could receive mail for you to retrieve at your convenience.

msla• 7 years ago

Will the postal services deliver to just a PO Box number, or do they require a name? Because giving out a name can be rather threatening, especially if you live in a small town or there's someone in the group that's near you.

dajohnson893• 7 years ago

perhaps, also, one could receive mail electronically.

sbilstein• 7 years ago

Found a write-up from 2017 in The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-...

In the intervening decades, Echo has never changed its primitive interface. To navigate within it, you can’t just click on links, but have to type in Echo-specific commands: j cen; l a m; sh 123. You don’t access it in your browser, but through a telnet client, a program that allows you to access the command line interface of another computer. It doesn’t support images or sound, much less video. It doesn’t even have colors. It’s text-only, and even editing text is a time-consuming pain in the ass.

masonic2• 7 years ago

I thought we were the crankiest group in cyberspace.

Anyway, how NYC-centric is it?

The Crankiest Group in Cyberspace

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