retronetworking is an informal group of technically experienced people who share an interest in historical telecommunications. There is no company or legal entity behind it; members fund acquisitions themselves and contribute spare time to documenting, repairing and researching old telecom gear. The site serves as the public face of that collaboration and as a gateway to their shared knowledge base.
The content covers a wide spread of telecom history: WAN topics such as modems, ISDN, Datex-L and Datex-P, BTX and ATM, plus LAN technologies including Arcnet, FDDI and Token Ring. Each area links to documentation, and the project maintains a wiki, a forum and git repositories where schematics, notes and code are collected. The emphasis is on equipment that actually operates, with manuals and component-level detail.
The collective is aimed at technically inclined hobbyists, retro computing enthusiasts, protocol researchers and anyone dissatisfied with superficial museum displays. Because the material assumes familiarity with networking and telephony concepts, it rewards readers who bring some background knowledge.
A practical approach is to start from the WAN or LAN overview pages, then move into the wiki for specific devices and the forum for repair questions. The site is also available in German, and the git repositories are useful for anyone reproducing configurations or tooling. In short, it is a working archive for people who want to understand and revive old telecom syste
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