Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Using a Commodore 64 on the modern internet!" video.

  1. 5:00 It would have been good to explain the BBS technology a bit more for the younger viewers. The most important part that may be missed by younger people is that the networking worked over analog phone calls and to keep connection open to the BBS both you and target computer system had to have active phone call constantly going on (and your single outgoing connection was reserved for this purpose – having "multiple tabs open" and using multiple services in parallel wouldn't have been possible and if somebody tried to call your phone, it was just emitting reserved sound signal for the caller and you never knew anything about that phone call). If BBS wanted to have multiple connections at the same time, they either needed multiple phone numbers and multiple phone lines, or some kind of more expensive setup and config with the local phone operator that allows taking multiple parallel phone calls to the same phone number. And this was all done with analog copper wired landline phones. GSM was invented over a decade later.
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  2. 2:15 I'd love to see a well made video about getting best possible image quality from old machines using modern displays. And with best, I mean the most accurate, not the most processed like many TV manufacturers love to do out of the box.
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  3. 11:38 That's pure gold!
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