Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

HP van Braam @hp@tmm.cx

11/26/2025, 9:40:47 PM

Public

Do you ever get a #retrocomputing intrusive thought?

This is #wordperfect 7 (ish, all from 1996 and 1997)

* Native #solaris #unix version (bottom left)
* Native 32bit windows in SunPCi (bottom right)
* #macintosh system 7 in MAE (top left)
* Windows 3.1 (16bit) in #wabi (top right)

All of this was supported by at least one vendor at the time!

And you can actually copy/paste between all of them, and it just works!

A photo of a monitor running Solaris 8, there are 4 copies of WordPerfect running.

Windows 3.1 (in wabi)
Windows 98 (in SunPCi)
Mac system 7 (Macintosh Application Environment)
Native Solaris

All of this was fully supported by their respective companies!

A photo of the same desktop, but each window now says "this is copy/pasted text"

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