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Archive for March 13th, 2024

BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13

I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:

[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.

The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages โ€“ Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 โ€“ #a11y).

It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:

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