Top 10 Discord Alternatives (2026 - Updated List)

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

Top 10 Discord Alternatives (2026 - Updated List)

1. FAX
2. Bildschirmtext (BTX)
3. Minitel
4. Prestel
5. Videotext Chat
6. Q-Link
7. FidoNet
8. Usenet
9. Micronet 800
10. DATEX-J

[jasmin@queer.group]

@revengeday These aren’t real alternatives, they’re complex ones.

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@jasmin

[jadedtwin@corteximplant.com]

@revengeday no shouting out the window or passing notes on a TI calculator in class?

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@jadedtwin Sorry, only Casio calculators were allowed at our school!

[jadedtwin@corteximplant.com]

@revengeday shame. I spent many hours playing games and sending notes to friends in math class on a TI-84 (or drawing booba in the graph mode and trying not to get caught lol)

This is peak 2006 nostalgia for me:

[craig_groeschel@zeroes.ca]

@revengeday
I guess 4.2 BSD talk(1) doesn't count because it's only between two people.

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@craig_groeschel No, only BDSM, sorry!

[robert@irrelevant.me.uk]

@revengeday
Nice to see Prestel and Micronet on that list

Now what was that network chat app that came with win 98? It allowed you to send pop-up messages to other computers on the LAN. Had a customer where the staff used it extensively to chat along themselves..

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@robert netcat?

[gabe@mendeddrum.org]

@robert @revengeday C:\> NET SEND ...

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@gabe @robert net send, right! I feel old.

[computeum@mastodon.bayern]

@revengeday

Einen Punkt müssen wir abziehen weil das Datex-J ist doppelt.

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@Computeum Fair!

[wintermute_bbs@oldbytes.space]

@revengeday BBS?!

[revengeday@corteximplant.com]

@Wintermute_BBS too modern!