Re: Hello
By: Poindexter Fortran to Mordor on Wed Jan 29 2014 10:18 am

Sometimes I wonder why I even have this BBS... I don't advertise, it is not even on FidoNet... But, I get a kick out of playing around with old memories I suppose :)

WE LOVE YOU.

I love me too.. Well, someone has to :)

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Re: Hello
By: Access Denied to Mordor on Wed Jan 29 2014 12:26 pm

Sometimes I wonder why I even have this BBS... I don't advertise, it
is not even on FidoNet... But, I get a kick out of playing around with old memories I suppose :)

As long as you're happy with that, that's all that matters. Right? :)

Regards,
Nick

And I is one happy chappy too.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Bbikebbs to Mordor on Wed Jan 29 2014 11:52 am

How about being able to converse with others thousands of miles away? How about
it just makes you happy? Or the satisfaction of doing something no one else know has done. What else, anyone?

Well, that is true. I am the only computer person in my family and none of my friends ever setup a BBS, they would say "WHY?" LOL.

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Re: Hello
By: Charon to Mordor on Wed Jan 29 2014 12:40 pm

You have your BBS, just like many others, including myself have our BBS'es, and that is because you enjoy a little "blast from the past". The BBS world will always be around, I belive, and will take on many forms, with different bbs software, hosts, etc. The history will continue and as long as users, young or old, continue to change, the bbs community will be around for a lon time.

They have been around even with the Internet, so yep, I say they will be around for a long time too. Which to me, is a very good thing :)


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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Charon on Wed Jan 29 2014 06:54 pm

I agree. There are a plenty of things that are more important and more productive to do than that. Life can be a lot happier (for both parties involved) if people refrain from wasting time in such a manner.

Nightfox

NO! Nobody would do that would they????

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Re: Re: Hello
By: KF5QEO to Bbikebbs on Wed Jan 29 2014 10:07 pm

But since you need ideas....

1. He's too lazy to turn on the TV, so every once in a while, he logs into h
BBS and checks the debate section to see the CNN news.

Nope.

2. He's super lonely, looking for attention, hoping that there's a 1 in
92 trillion to 1 odds of finding a woman that's into calling BBS's still
and singel, and looking for a date, that doesn't care what part of the
world he's in?

DEFINATELY not.

3. His computer is so out-dated that his only hope of playing games is
to play the door games.

My BBS is on an XPMode Virtual machine ONLY because Synchronet requires the 8bit PKZIP/PKUNZIP and I have a 64bit OS that cannot run it.

4. He wants to bash that guy who cut him off on the interstate and caused hi
to crash into a ditch, but doesn't want the guy to turn him into shredded
dog food, so he chooses to vent on the BBS instead, where he knows it's
much safer, because if he vented on facebook his pastor might see it and
get offended that he doesn't like his driving style. ;-)

Hahahaha.. Close..

Jeff in Australia

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Re: Hello
By: Mordor to Nightfox on Sat Feb 01 2014 16:33:37

I agree. There are a plenty of things that are more important and
more productive to do than that. Life can be a lot happier (for both
parties involved) if people refrain from wasting time in such a
manner.

NO! Nobody would do that would they????

Nah, I guess not. Let's go ahead and let Dove-Net become another Fight-O-Net. ;)

Nightfox

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Hello Mordor,

On 01 Feb 14 16:36, Mordor wrote to KF5QEO:

My BBS is on an XPMode Virtual machine ONLY because Synchronet
requires the 8bit PKZIP/PKUNZIP and I have a 64bit OS that cannot run
it.

If you switched your archivers to Infozip or 7zip you wouldn't have to go that route. Synchronet doesn't really *require* anything when it comes to archivers. You just have to use archivers that are supported in your operating system.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Mordor to KF5QEO on Sat Feb 01 2014 04:36 pm

My BBS is on an XPMode Virtual machine ONLY because Synchronet requires the 8bit PKZIP/PKUNZIP and I have a 64bit OS that cannot run it.

Yeah, just swap out pkzip for 7-zip, they even have a 64-bit build. Here's some examples of compression lines I use in scfg...

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º Compressable File Types º ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹
º ³zip 7z a -mx9 -tzip -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³gz 7z a -mx9 -tgzip -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³xz 7z a -mx9 -txz -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³7z 7z a -mx9 -t7z -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³bz 7z a -mx9 -tbzip2 -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³tar 7z a -ttar -y -w%g %f %s º
º ³wim 7z a -twim -y -w%g %f %s º

and 7z can also decompress the following....

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º Extractable File Types º ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͹
º ³zip 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³Z?? 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³7z 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³gz 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³bz2 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³tar 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³wim 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³rar 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³arj 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³lzh 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³lha 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³iso 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³dmg 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³xar 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³hfs 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³vhd 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º
º ³exe 7z x -y -w%g -o%s %f º

The Z?? is so sbbs will recognize fidonet compressed nodelists like: nodelist.z25

PKZIP is also 16bit, and I believe there is a 32-bit version, but it uses DPMI, so your system still thinks it's a 16-bit app.


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Re: Hello
By: Access Denied to Mordor on Sat Feb 01 2014 10:06:48

If you switched your archivers to Infozip or 7zip you wouldn't have to go that route. Synchronet doesn't really *require* anything when it comes to archivers. You just have to use archivers that are supported in your operating system.

I need to setup tar as an archiver on my system, and maybe xyzip or whatever its called.... Would be interesting to see someone using tar for a QWK packet!

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Android8675 to Mordor on Sun Feb 02 2014 07:43:58

Yeah, just swap out pkzip for 7-zip, they even have a 64-bit build. Here's some examples of compression lines I use in scfg...

I didn't see Zoo and Microsoft CAB formats in there. I could swear they have
zoo for linux. There was another format that they used to use for CP/M.
I believe I had that for linux as well... I gotta see about making a
list of all the compression programs for linux.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Mordor to KF5QEO on Sat Feb 01 2014 04:36 pm

My BBS is on an XPMode Virtual machine ONLY because Synchronet requires
the 8bit PKZIP/PKUNZIP and I have a 64bit OS that cannot run it.

You mean 16-bit PKZIP/PKUNZIP, and that's not true. The 32-bit ZIP programs work just great with Synchronet (e.g. Info-ZIP).

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #83:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation used to run Synchronet (circa 1993).
Norco, CA WX: 46.1øF, 81.0% humidity, 0 mph NNE wind, 0.01 inches rain/24hrs

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Hello KF5QEO,

On 02 Feb 14 17:49, KF5QEO wrote to Access Denied:

I need to setup tar as an archiver on my system, and maybe xyzip or whatever its called.... Would be interesting to see someone using tar
for a QWK packet!

I believe 7zip handles most, if not all of the popular archivers today, and with the settings Android34098123490823 just supplied you with, you should be good to go!

While using tar is very doable, I'm not sure it really matters much since zip can take care of it just fine. That and if the setting isn't user specific, how will the user know how to unarchive it unless they changed that option themselves? :)

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Hello
By: KF5QEO to Android8675 on Sun Feb 02 2014 05:59 pm

I didn't see Zoo and Microsoft CAB formats in there. I could swear they
have zoo for linux. There was another format that they used to use for
CP/M. I believe I had that for linux as well... I gotta see about making
a list of all the compression programs for linux.

I have zoo, arc, pkpak setup using their standalone compress/decompression programs, unfortunatly I have been unable to find 32-bit versions of these apps so not much reason to run them on a Windows x64 system. I did find lha32 (LHArc) that works nicely, also 7z decompresses more formats than it compresses because some compressions are free to decompress, but you have to buy a license to compress, so they were excluded. (I believe)

MS CAB format is proprietary, not much reason to decompress that format in SBBS.

I'm sure you could find a .zoo compressor for Linux with a little poking around, again, seldomly used compression program these days. Probably more likely to find it if you deal with a lot of older programs.


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Hello Android8675,

On 03 Feb 14 12:02, Android8675 wrote to KF5QEO:

I'm sure you could find a .zoo compressor for Linux with a little
poking around, again, seldomly used compression program these days. Probably more likely to find it if you deal with a lot of older
programs.

Yep. For the record, zoo, lha, arc, 7z, zip, unzip, rar, as well as some others that are hardly ever used seem to be available in most distros' package managers. I know for sure Gentoo and Archlinux supply all the ones I can think of that *might* be needed with a BBS, but just really don't see a need for anything other than zip/unzip, rar, and arj these days unless you're getting into old Commodore stuff and whatnot.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Hello
By: Access Denied to Android8675 on Mon Feb 03 2014 22:45:58

package managers. I know for sure Gentoo and Archlinux supply all the
ones I can think of that *might* be needed with a BBS, but just really don't see a need for anything other than zip/unzip, rar, and arj these days unless you're getting into old Commodore stuff and whatnot.

The .7z format seems to provide better compression than zip in many cases. But it just happens that zip has become the de-facto standard compression format for Windows systems and many others. However in Linux, I believe gzip and tar-gzip (.tar.gz or .tgz) used to be the most common archive formats. I still see a lot of source code distributed for Linux in .tar.gz archives, but zip seems to be fairly common in Linux as well.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Access Denied to Android8675 on Mon Feb 03 2014 10:45 pm

I can think of that *might* be needed with a BBS, but just really don't see a need for anything other than zip/unzip, rar, and arj these days unless you're getting into old Commodore stuff and whatnot.

No one in Fidonet region 10 is using anything except for transfers except.ZIP, the nodediffs come in ARC format, and I have a handful of text files from the 80s in LHA format. I converted them all over on my old BBS incarnation when I realized I could reclaim 30 megs or something like that by converting from ARC to LHA. :)

The nodelist is available un-diffed in ZIP format, which makes more sense these days, but getting all of the pieces working is half the fun!

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Re: Hello
By: Access Denied to Android8675 on Mon Feb 03 2014 10:45 pm

I can think of that *might* be needed with a BBS, but just really don't see a need for anything other than zip/unzip, rar, and arj these days unless you're getting into old Commodore stuff and whatnot.

Atari ST has a lot of .zoo, .lha archives, gzipped tar seems like a common way to pack up cvs builds (.tgz). I use 7z for keeping backups, seems like a real fast/stable compression, usually gives the best compression ratio as well.


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Re: Hello
By: Android8675 to Access Denied on Tue Feb 04 2014 10:49 am

I use 7z for keeping backups, seems like
a real fast/stable compression, usually gives the best compression ratio as well.

I build VMs at my company and need to send multiple-gig archives to a server 40 miles away across a WAN. 7-Zip rocks.

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Hello Android8675,

On 04 Feb 14 10:49, Android8675 wrote to Access Denied:

Atari ST has a lot of .zoo, .lha archives, gzipped tar seems like a
common way to pack up cvs builds (.tgz). I use 7z for keeping backups, seems like a real fast/stable compression, usually gives the best compression ratio as well.

Agreed. I will definitely use it when I get some time to redo things over here. I have to start with a distro change, though. So I'm kinda putting it off as long as I can at the moment. :)

Regards,
Nick

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So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original
era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anything but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the BBS era, among other things.


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Re: Hello
By: Vistascan to All on Thu Mar 13 2014 05:54 am

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anything but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the

Welcome and keep coming back. Don't let these ol farts bug ya neither. BBS'ing can be a lot of fun. Better than anything you'll find on the web anyways. L8ta

HusTler
Regards

HusTler

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Re: Hello
By: Vistascan to All on Thu Mar 13 2014 05:54 am

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anythin but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the BBS era, among othe things.

Welcome glad for you to be here.





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Re: Hello
By: Vistascan to All on Thu Mar 13 2014 05:54 am

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anythin but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the BBS era, among othe things.

Welcome to Fido Net :)

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Re: Hello
By: Mordor to Vistascan on Fri Mar 14 2014 20:24:16

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the
original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a
programmer or anythin but I always had a fascination for the internet.
I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and
learn about the BBS era, among othe things.

Welcome to Fido Net :)

FidoNet? Don't confuse him, now.. ;)

Welcome, Vistascan! I hope you enjoy it.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Vistascan to All on Thu Mar 13 2014 05:54 am

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anything but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get
to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the BBS
era, among other things.

Welcome! I was a teen during the peak of BBSing, so I think it's awesome there are still sysops and users keeping things going.

--Josh



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I was a teen during the peak of BBSing, so I think it's awesome
there are still sysops and users keeping things going.

I was as well. Those were fun times.. Plenty of time to spend BBSing and running my own too. I met a few cool people at the time, and when I was 15, there were many nights during the summer when I'd stay up until around 4:00- 5:00AM playing Doom and Doom 2 over the modem with a user who used to call my BBS.

Nightfox

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On 03-14-14, Nightfox said the following...

I was a teen during the peak of BBSing, so I think it's awesome
there are still sysops and users keeping things going.

Iwas as well. Those were fun times.. Plenty of time to spend BBSing and running my own too. I met a few cool people at the time, and when I was 15, there were many nights during the summer when I'd stay up until
around 4:00- 5:00AM playing Doom and Doom2 over the modem with a user
who used to call my BBS.

By the time I found BBSes, I was already 28.

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Sometimes I wonder why I even have this BBS... I don't advertise, it is not >even on FidoNet... But, I get a kick out of playing around with old memories >I suppose :)

Jeff in Brisbane, Australia.

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Hello From Bastetx
Its the playing around part like you say

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32mSynchronet SiliconUnderground - siliconu.synchro.net -
Syrac

Welcome! I'm actually in the same boat as you. I only started using BBSs a Welcome! I am in the same boat, as I have only started using BBSs a

couple of months ago. Since then I have been frequenting TARDIS BBS and a

couple of others. Anyway hopefully this post isn't too screwed up. I'm

sending it from my phone.



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Re: Hello
By: Vistascan to All on Thu Mar 13 2014 05:54 am

So I just logged into this BBS and I am too young to have seen the original era of BBS (I'm 23) so I'm exploring it now. I'm not a programmer or anythin

g

but I always had a fascination for the internet. I hope I'll get to discuss some stuff with the other users here and learn about the BBS era, among othe

r

things.

Hey Vistascan! Welcome to the world of BBSes. Many of us grew up in the BBS world, and many of us even ran a BBS for many years. The Internet was wild and fascinating, which drew most of us away from the BBS scene, which eventually imploded. Thanks to people like Digital Man (author of Synchronet), we can keep the spirit of BBSes alive.

The one thing that BBSes seem to do well is form a sense of community. This is something the Internet has stolen in the name of expanding access to the world. Funny trade off, don't you think?

Hope to see you stick around. I'm relatively new in this scene as I'm just getting back into things, after a 15 year hiatus. I ran the Dark Knight BBS in California back in the late 80s, early 90s. Later I ran The Phunc BBS in the mid to late 90s in California and Minnesota.

Chat soon,
Knight

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Re: Hello
By: Poodle448 to All on Sun Apr 13 2014 10:32 pm

Hello everybody, I am new on BBS. This is my first ever post on a BBS. I'm n going to lie, it's pretty confusing.

Welcome Poddle448! It's always exciting for us to see people new to BBSes.

What are your first impressions? What is it you think you've stumbled into?

Feel free to ask questions. Most of us like to help, because we want to see BBSes stay around for a while.

Knight

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Hello everybody, I am new on BBS. This is my first ever post on a BBS. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty confusing.

Hello! Would you like to share what has drawn you to BBS?

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Welcome. :-)
I'm fairly new to this myself. I'm only 21 but I did have some BBS experiences through my parents and older brother in the late 90's/early 00's. Confusing at first, yes...but very fun and rewarding.



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Re: Hello
By: Poodle448 to All on Sun Apr 13 2014 22:32:12

Hello everybody, I am new on BBS. This is my first ever post on a BBS. I'm n going to lie, it's pretty confusing.

Hello & good to meet ya. It can be a bit confusing for anyone,
the first time, but when you get down to it it's really pretty much the
same as using any point & click system. If you're in any standard sort
of command shell, you can always hit '?' or 'h' to get help on what
commands you have at the particular menu/prompt. The highlighted keys
in the short descriptions will be the ones that you'll be pressing, just
think of them as your buttons to click on the web page.
The areas and sections of the BBS can be a little bit confusing
because of the way that they're named and set up to somebody not used to
that kind of system. It's a lot like your primary menu system in a DVD settings or cable television settings menu. Hit one subsection, see
what it deals with and the options that it has available. There will
usually be an option like 'X' or 'Q' to get out of the menu and return
to the former one that you were at, in case you get lost or there is
nothing interesting for you where you are. You'll find areas dealing
with different message topics and conversations, games, sources of
information, and later on where to download files and programs to your
own computer.
Anybody here is usually pretty happy to help you deal with
questions, as long as you're interested in what you're getting into.
Well, except for Mro. Mro is a dick.


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Re: Hello
By: Poodle448 to All on Sun Apr 13 2014 10:32 pm

Hey there Poodle, welcome to the boards! :) Where are you from? Washington DC here.


-nolageek

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Re: Hello
By: Poodle448 to All on Sun Apr 13 2014 10:32 pm

Hello everybody, I am new on BBS. This is my first ever post on a BBS. I'm n going to lie, it's pretty confusing.

Welcome!
Always good to see new people come in. I've only been doing this for about four months myself, but I enjoy being on here way more then facebook. Of course for a long time, I've been more of a forum guy, which would explain it's appeal.


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Hello everyone. Just wanted to post something and introduce myself.


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Hello everyone. Just wanted to post something and introduce myself.

Welcome aboard!!!

... Beware Romulans baring GIFs.
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Re: Hello
By: ROBERT WOLFE to GATE KEEPER on Thu Jul 31 2014 07:36 am

Hello everyone. Just wanted to post something and introduce myself.

Welcome aboard!!!

... Beware Romulans baring GIFs.

Thanks. Takes some getting used to since i've been running WWIV since 1980.

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Re: Hello
By: Gate Keeper to All on Wed Jul 30 2014 18:42:00

Hello everyone. Just wanted to post something and introduce myself.

How's it going, Gate Keeper? I am the keymaster.
-=-

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Re: Hello
By: Gate Keeper to All on Wed Jul 30 2014 06:42 pm

Hello everyone. Just wanted to post something and introduce myself.

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Hello Gate-Keeper I am nitestryker Nice to meet you !!!

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Thanks. Takes some getting used to since i've been running WWIV since

1980.

I think I can totally understand that :)

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Re: Hello
By: Kirkman to Vistascan on Fri Mar 14 2014 01:30 pm

Welcome! I was a teen during the peak of BBSing, so I think it's awesome the are still sysops and users keeping things going.

I'm a teen during the peak of social media, yet I'm a sysop :P (Just started my BBS two days ago, reading through DOVE-Net)

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Re: Hello
By: Kirkman to Vistascan on Fri Mar 14 2014 01:30 pm

Welcome! I was a teen during the peak of BBSing, so I think it's

awesome

the are still sysops and users keeping things going.

I'm a teen during the peak of social media, yet I'm a sysop :P (Just
started my BBS two days ago, reading through DOVE-Net)

Congrats on launching the board and joining the fraternity of sysops!

I'm curious: do any of your friends know about BBSing? How do you explain
it to them?

Even back in the day, I had a hard time getting non-BBSers to understand what it was all about. Nowadays it's somewhat easier (it's like a tiny social network that lives in your computer, but with a text-only
interface), but people are more likely to respond "Why would you be interested in THAT?"

--Josh

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This is my first post :U

-Elaek

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Welcome back to BBSs.

- Jeff

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:14:51 -0500, "Alex Sherman"
<alex.sherman@VERT/THEGATEB> wrote:

Hi. I've recently got into retro-computing and this is my first day using >BBS's. I found this BBS on telnetbbsguide.com
This is my first post :U

Welcome to the world of BBS's. No two boards are the same so be sure
to look around and everything that's available. You'll soon find some favorites.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Nelgin to Alex Sherman on Tue Nov 07 2017 08:53 pm

Welcome to the world of BBS's. No two boards are the same so be sure

except if they are synchronet bbses!
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Re: Hello
By: Alex Sherman to All on Tue Nov 07 2017 12:14 pm

Hi. I've recently got into retro-computing and this is my first day using BBS's. I found this BBS on telnetbbsguide.com
This is my first post :U

Welcome to the wonderful retro world of BBS'ing this was a first experience of being on line for many of us back in the day.
Most BBS's back then were a single phone line and local only unless you wanted to rack up long distance charges.
Today's BBS's have multiple nodes and tons of hard drive space,

"... Taglines: the toilet-stall walls of BBSdom."

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:41:29 -0600, "MRO" <mro@VERT/BBSESINF> wrote:

Re: Re: Hello
By: Nelgin to Alex Sherman on Tue Nov 07 2017 08:53 pm

Welcome to the world of BBS's. No two boards are the same so be sure

except if they are synchronet bbses!

Ouch!

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Welcome back? This is my first time actually! I got interested in them after playing through 'Digital' and after watching a couple of youtube videos on
the tech I decided to check it out myself. So far i've found a couple of
BBS's that I like. Been exploring for me every day :)

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to nblade on Thu Nov 09 2017 10:39:05

Welcome back? This is my first time actually! I got interested in them after playing through 'Digital' and after watching a couple of youtube videos on the tech I decided to check it out myself. So far i've found a couple of BBS's that I like. Been exploring for me every day :)

Does that include YouTube videos by LGR, by chance? His vidoes on BBSes brought in a lot of users to Diamond Mine BBS when I was there a few months ago.

Question is, though: how many stayed or how many played with it for a few days and then quit?

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

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Does that include Youtube videos by LGR, by chance?

Yes! It does, that was the last video I watched before I just ended up downloading SyncTerm.

I think i'll be sticking around for a bit though, this is a lot more
enjoyable than mindlessly scrolling through reddit.

I've recently discovered MUD's. Haven't been able to really *understand* how
to really work it yet, but i'll keep trying until I do ha ha.

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Elaek on Thu Nov 09 2017 03:00 pm

Does that include YouTube videos by LGR, by chance? His vidoes on BBSes brought in a lot of users to Diamond Mine BBS when I was there a few months ago.

he sounds like he's trying to copy that old youtuber howto guy kipkay
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to Jagossel on Thu Nov 09 2017 15:20:46

Does that include Youtube videos by LGR, by chance?

Yes! It does, that was the last video I watched before I just ended up downloading SyncTerm.

SyncTerm is a really good client for different modern platforms (the top 3 maybe?): different connection methods, proper rendering of the font for the CP437 characters, and the ability to download files. The problem is that I'm not on my PC often (busy with work and family) and I'm on my phone more than anything else. So, I just use Limbo, fire up a FreeDOS "VM", and use MTCP's Telnet cliemt. It works, just not able to download files with it.

I think i'll be sticking around for a bit though, this is a lot more enjoyable than mindlessly scrolling through reddit.

I'm glad to hear that! DOVE-Net is the more active conferences, and surprisingly, FidoNet is still around and a little active (when I was still on Diamond Mine).

Well, welcome aboard! I hope you have an enjoyable and pleasent with the BBS you're on.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!


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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Elaek on Thu Nov 09 2017 07:52 pm

Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to Jagossel on Thu Nov 09 2017 15:20:46

Does that include Youtube videos by LGR, by chance?

Yes! It does, that was the last video I watched before I just ended up downloading SyncTerm.

SyncTerm is a really good client for different modern platforms (the top 3 maybe?): different connection methods, proper rendering of the font for the CP437 characters, and the ability to download files. The problem is that I'm not on my PC often (busy with work and family) and I'm on my phone more than anything else. So, I just use Limbo, fire up a FreeDOS "VM", and use MTCP's Telnet cliemt. It works, just not able to download files with it.

did you try my.ftelnet.ca or the ftelnet app on the android store
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Jagossel on Thu Nov 09 2017 21:36:27

did you try my.ftelnet.ca or the ftelnet app on the android store

I have, and I wasn't too thrilled about fTelnet. It was too wide and the keyboard fTelnet provided was very awakward to use. The font didn't look quite right to me.

Using Limbo, FreeDOS, MTCP Telnet, and Hacker's Keyboard is as close to the real thing as I get. It renders the font correctly and it feels more natural. The one major drawback is how slow it can be at times. If I need to get in there real quick, ConnectBot works with the CP437 encoding; however the fonts are way off in ConnectBot.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to MRO on Fri Nov 10 2017 06:01 am

did you try my.ftelnet.ca or the ftelnet app on the android store

I have, and I wasn't too thrilled about fTelnet. It was too wide and the keyboard fTelnet provided was very awakward to use. The font didn't look quite right to me.

I rarely use the fTelnet keyboard. Unless you're using it on a mobile device, there's rarely a need to use its keyboard. Otherwise, I think fTelnet works very well. I don't think it's too wide (it's just wide enough to render an 80x25 character console, and it looks good).

Nightfox

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Sorry, when I first responded I somehow read into it that you were comming
back to BBSs. Of course on a second read, I could see that was not the case.

So, welcome to BBSing. While not quite the same as when I was doing it back by Modem in the early 90s, it is still a unique experience. So I hope you enjoy it.

One thing for sure if you ever want to setup your own BBS these days that telnetable (or ssh=able) it certainly is easier than it was back in the day. Way more tutorials and information online on how to do it.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: nblade to Elaek on Fri Nov 10 2017 04:38 pm

One thing for sure if you ever want to setup your own BBS these days that telnetable (or ssh=able) it certainly is easier than it was back in the day. Way more tutorials and information online on how to do it.

Setting up a mailer with a BBS was a challenge - writing a batch file to call the mailer, and the mailer using DOS errorlevels to run events was tricky. I think I had to run some events manually for months until I got all of the pieces talking to each other.

Getting the modem, FOSSIL and physical serial port was always fun.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to nblade on Fri Nov 10 2017 15:02:02

Re: Re: Hello
By: nblade to Elaek on Fri Nov 10 2017 04:38 pm

One thing for sure if you ever want to setup your own BBS these days tha telnetable (or ssh=able) it certainly is easier than it was back in the day. Way more tutorials and information online on how to do it.

Setting up a mailer with a BBS was a challenge - writing a batch file to cal the mailer, and the mailer using DOS errorlevels to run events was tricky. I think I had to run some events manually for months until I got all of the pieces talking to each other.

Getting the modem, FOSSIL and physical serial port was always fun.

Ohh gawd, serial ports. IRQ`s and com ports. Sweet memories. I can`t remember how many times I rebooted my pc to figure out if my modem and my mouse wasn`t conflicting.

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Fri Nov 10 2017 09:07:58

I rarely use the fTelnet keyboard. Unless you're using it on a mobile devic there's rarely a need to use its keyboard. Otherwise, I think fTelnet works very well. I don't think it's too wide (it's just wide enough to render an 80x25 character console, and it looks good).

That's the problem. The desktop versio of fTelnet is fine, it's the mobile version that I didn't care for.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Nov 10 2017 08:02 pm

Ohh gawd, serial ports. IRQ`s and com ports. Sweet memories. I can`t remember how many times I rebooted my pc to figure out if my modem and my mouse wasn`t conflicting.

for wingcommander privateer i had to move a jumper on my sound card.
then move it back when i was done because of other conflicts.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Nightfox on Fri Nov 10 2017 08:42 pm

Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Fri Nov 10 2017 09:07:58

I rarely use the fTelnet keyboard. Unless you're using it on a mobile devic there's rarely a need to use its keyboard. Otherwise, I think fTelnet works very well. I don't think it's too wide (it's just wide enough to render an 80x25 character console, and it looks good).

That's the problem. The desktop versio of fTelnet is fine, it's the mobile version that I didn't care for.

you mean the web version is fine? that will run on your phone the same.
i agree it was hard to use the app's keyboard. i was trying to visit a bbs the other day and kept mistyping when trying to type in the system password.

maybe bbsing isnt meant for phones.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Nightfox on Fri Nov 10 2017 08:42 pm

I rarely use the fTelnet keyboard. Unless you're using it on a mobile
devic there's rarely a need to use its keyboard. Otherwise, I think
fTelnet works very well. I don't think it's too wide (it's just wide
enough to render an 80x25 character console, and it looks good).

That's the problem. The desktop versio of fTelnet is fine, it's the mobile version that I didn't care for.

Yeah, I think the mobile keyboard does take up quite a bit of space, but that's probably more an issue of mobile devices rather than the app itself. I had a smart phone with a real keyboard once (the screen slid to the side to reveal the keyboard underneath) - I wish more smartphones had a real keyboard like that so you didn't have to use an on-screen keyboard so much.

Tablets have a similar issue (though with a bigger screen, an on-screen keyboard doesn't use up as much of the space). You can pair a bluetooth keyboard with a tablet, and even with a smartphone too, but pretty much nobody is going to carry a bluetooth keyboard around with them for their phone..

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Bigbangnet on Sat Nov 11 2017 09:57 am

for wingcommander privateer i had to move a jumper on my sound card.
then move it back when i was done because of other conflicts.

I used to play that as well. Several years ago, I ran across an open-source re-creation of Wing Commander Privateer, available for Windows, Linux, and OS X:
http://privateer.sourceforge.net/
It looks and plays pretty much just like the original.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Jagossel on Sat Nov 11 2017 09:58 am

That's the problem. The desktop versio of fTelnet is fine, it's the
mobile version that I didn't care for.

you mean the web version is fine? that will run on your phone the same.
i agree it was hard to use the app's keyboard. i was trying to visit a bbs the other day and kept mistyping when trying to type in the system password.

The fTelnet Android app is more like a regular telnet app in that it can be configured to connect to any BBS (as opposed to the web version, which is typically set up on a BBS's web site to connect just to that BBS).

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Sun Nov 12 2017 06:44 pm

I rarely use the fTelnet keyboard. Unless you're using it on a

That's the problem. The desktop versio of fTelnet is fine, it's the
mobile version that I didn't care for.

I use an android app called Rterm it uses chinese special characters but is still readable on my phone.

"... What if there were no hypothetical situations?"

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Sun Nov 12 2017 18:44:25

Yeah, I think the mobile keyboard does take up quite a bit of space, but tha probably more an issue of mobile devices rather than the app itself. I had smart phone with a real keyboard once (the screen slid to the side to reveal the keyboard underneath) - I wish more smartphones had a real keyboard like that so you didn't have to use an on-screen keyboard so much.

I really miss having a cell phone with an actual physical keyboard. I had a Kyocera Rise a few years ago that I had Turbo DOSBox and AIDE on it.

Sadly, I think the latest trend is to not have a physical keyboard and use glass for the screen. I hate glass in general, and phone I have now has two cracks running across the screen; seems to be getting worse.

-jag
Code it, Scrip it, Automate it!

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Sun Nov 12 2017 06:44 pm

Tablets have a similar issue (though with a bigger screen, an on-screen keyboard doesn't use up as much of the space). You can pair a bluetooth keyboard with a tablet, and even with a smartphone too, but pretty much nobody is going to carry a bluetooth keyboard around with them for their phone..

I'd like to find a folding bluetooth keyboard with a stand; I've been toying with using my phone as a laptop replacement, input is the only thing holding me back at this point.

Need to edit a doc? Google Docs works fine.

Crappy coffee shop wi-fi? 3G works fine in a pinch.

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Denn to Nightfox on Mon Nov 13 2017 12:43 am

I use an android app called Rterm it uses chinese special characters but is still readable on my phone.

That reminds me, I've heard BBSes are still relatively popular in China - Probably in part due to China's censorship laws, and perhaps BBSes can fly under the radar there.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to MRO on Sun Nov 12 2017 06:50 pm

for wingcommander privateer i had to move a jumper on my sound card. then move it back when i was done because of other conflicts.

I used to play that as well. Several years ago, I ran across an open-source re-creation of Wing Commander Privateer, available for Windows, Linux, and OS X:
http://privateer.sourceforge.net/
It looks and plays pretty much just like the original.

it's actually better than the original in a lot of respects.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to MRO on Sun Nov 12 2017 06:52 pm

The fTelnet Android app is more like a regular telnet app in that it can be configured to connect to any BBS (as opposed to the web version, which is typically set up on a BBS's web site to connect just to that BBS).

you can goto my.ftelnet.ca and punch in any address and use it.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Nightfox on Mon Nov 13 2017 05:55 am

I really miss having a cell phone with an actual physical keyboard. I had a Kyocera Rise a few years ago that I had Turbo DOSBox and AIDE on it.

Sadly, I think the latest trend is to not have a physical keyboard and use glass for the screen. I hate glass in general, and phone I have now has two cracks running across the screen; seems to be getting worse.

yes, i too miss the keyboard. i type like shit on glass.
i was going to get that blackberry with they keyboard but it was overpriced junk.

get a tempered glass screensaver.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Denn on Mon Nov 13 2017 03:05 pm

Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Denn to Nightfox on Mon Nov 13 2017 12:43 am

I use an android app called Rterm it uses chinese special characters but is still readable on my phone.

That reminds me, I've heard BBSes are still relatively popular in China - Probably in part due to China's censorship laws, and perhaps BBSes can fly under the radar there.

yep, they are. i've been on them. been a year or so, though.
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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Denn on Mon Nov 13 2017 03:05 pm

That reminds me, I've heard BBSes are still relatively popular in China - Probably in part due to China's censorship laws, and perhaps BBSes can fly under the radar there.

Because of the cyber attacks from China and Russia I block those two contries right at my router.
BBS'ing is pretty big in Japan and I have logged into some of those BBS's

"... Remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else."

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to nblade on Thu Nov 09 2017 10:39:05

Welcome back? This is my first time actually! I got interested in them after playing through 'Digital' and after watching a couple of youtube videos on the tech I decided to check it out myself. So far i've found a couple of BBS's that I like. Been exploring for me every day :)

It's an interesting dynamic, calling the boards. I find myself checking Facebook less and less the more time I spend on the boards. It's more, er, I suppose people with the same general outlooks or histories, so it's kind of a much more focused and enaging world than the whole normal social media scene.

I feel like I just typed a bunch of words that don't actually connect to anything else, but I think the idea got across there.

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Jagossel to Nightfox on Mon Nov 13 2017 05:55:56

Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Sun Nov 12 2017 18:44:25

Yeah, I think the mobile keyboard does take up quite a bit of space, but probably more an issue of mobile devices rather than the app itself. I h smart phone with a real keyboard once (the screen slid to the side to rev the keyboard underneath) - I wish more smartphones had a real keyboard li that so you didn't have to use an on-screen keyboard so much.

I really miss having a cell phone with an actual physical keyboard. I had a Kyocera Rise a few years ago that I had Turbo DOSBox and AIDE on it.

Sadly, I think the latest trend is to not have a physical keyboard and use glass for the screen. I hate glass in general, and phone I have now has two cracks running across the screen; seems to be getting worse.

-jag
Code it, Scrip it, Automate it!

well your phone is bluetooth so how about a bluetooth keyboard. that should work

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Jagossel on Sat Nov 18 2017 10:04:15

I really miss having a cell phone with an actual physical keyboard. I had Kyocera Rise a few years ago that I had Turbo DOSBox and AIDE on it.

well your phone is bluetooth so how about a bluetooth keyboard. that should work

Good point. It's not quite the same as having the whole packages, unless there's a foldable bluetooth keyboad and phone cover... that'll be close enough.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Jagossel on Sat Nov 18 2017 10:04:15

well your phone is bluetooth so how about a bluetooth keyboard. that should work

I've used a Bluetooth keyboard with my Android phone. Also used a bluetooth mouse with it. Both work surprisingly well!

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I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name is harry and you can call me Chuy, this BBS is cool. I wish I was alive to see them in their "heyday" before all the popups that people call the world wide web.

So far I'm loving what I see at this BBS I visited. How many BBS systems are out there and can I talk to all of them here? I like the BBS I'm on, the person running it leaves me alone. I tried calling another before this one but before I could get signed up all the way the operator already had me in a chat window talking to me about stuff that I had no idea what they were talking about.

O hope to make some friends, and I believe I will make this my home bbs, and visit others from time to time as long as I'mg left alone long enough to do something.

Talk to you later BBS world!

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Re: Hello
By: harry crotchington to All on Thu Feb 08 2018 07:29 am

I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name is harry and you can call me Chuy, this BBS is cool. I wish I was alive to see them in their "heyday" before all the popups that people call the world wide web.

"This BBS".. Did you know you're posting on a networked sub-board that is accessed by many BBSes?

It was fun to use BBSes back in their heyday, and it was also really cool to see something like FidoNet and other message networks where many BBSes were able to exchange messages with each other..

So far I'm loving what I see at this BBS I visited. How many BBS systems are out there and can I talk to all of them here? I like the BBS I'm on,

Some BBSes carry message networks, one of which you're posting on, so you can reach a lot of BBSes that way. There are also other message networks - too many to list, although FidoNet was always a big one..

the person running it leaves me alone. I tried calling another before this one but before I could get signed up all the way the operator already had me in a chat window talking to me about stuff that I had no idea what they were talking about.

That's called being social.. Many BBS sysops liked to chat with the users, and also, many users liked to chat with the sysops too, as a way to get to know the person running the BBS. Back in the day I ran a BBS (1994-2000), and I got a lot of users who would page me just to chat and get to know me, etc. There was even one user who I ended up playing Doom and Doom 2 multiplayer via modem with fairly often..

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: harry crotchington to All on Thu Feb 08 2018 07:29 am

I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name is harry and you can call me Chuy, this BBS is cool. I wish I was alive to see them in their "heyday" before all the popups that people call the world wide

sorry we dont allow fake names in bbsing.
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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to harry crotchington on Thu Feb 08 2018 09:43 am

That's called being social.. Many BBS sysops liked to chat with the users, and also, many users liked to chat with the sysops too, as a way to get to know the person running the BBS. Back in the day I ran a BBS (1994-2000), and I got a lot of users who would page me just to chat and get to know me, etc. There was even one user who I ended up playing Doom and Doom 2 multiplayer via modem with fairly often..

Nightfox

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my wife and kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want to keep your family spend time with them. Just sayin.


HusTler

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harry crotchington wrote to All <=-

@VIA: VERT/KK4QBN
I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name
is harry and you can call me Chuy, this BBS is cool. I wish I was alive
to see them in their "heyday" before all the popups that people call
the world wide web.

Welcome to BBSing. Yes, the heyday of BBSing was a great time to be online. It was very different, more of a "local community" feel. While it's nice to be back on the boards, I still do miss that something the modem days had.


... It's no secret a man's conscience can sometimes be a pest.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to harry crotchington on Thu Feb 08 2018 09:43:43

That's called being social.. Many BBS sysops liked to chat with the users, and also, many users liked to chat with the sysops too, as a way to get to know the person running the BBS. Back in the day I ran a BBS (1994-2000), and I got a lot of users who would page me just to chat and get to know me, etc. There was even one user who I ended up playing Doom and Doom 2 multiplayer via modem with fairly often..
Nightfox

Exactly the reason for me to start the BBS again... I miss those times...

HAWKEYE

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Re: Hello
By: MRO to harry crotchington on Thu Feb 08 2018 16:36:12

I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name is

sorry we dont allow fake names in bbsing.

In the 90s we would send a netmail to all BBSes around and give this account with as much as info we had a lockout...

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Re: Hello
By: Hustler to Nightfox on Thu Feb 08 2018 10:33 pm

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my wife and kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want to keep your family spend time with them. Just sayin.

Yep, it's good to keep that balance and remember what's important in life. It's fine to have hobbies & things you like to do and work on, but family is important.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to harry crotchington on Thu Feb 08 2018 09:43:43

omg, I ended up playing doom 2 and warcraft 2 over some friends I made on a bbs
as well. BBS's social aspect was/still is great. I even knew a BBS that could run doom 2 on it and was able to play 4 players on it. I don't know how he managed to do it though. I'd like to know.


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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Hustler on Fri Feb 09 2018 09:26:22

Re: Hello
By: Hustler to Nightfox on Thu Feb 08 2018 10:33 pm

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my wife and kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want
to keep your family spend time with them. Just sayin.

Yep, it's good to keep that balance and remember what's important in life. It's fine to have hobbies & things you like to do and work on, but family
is important.

Theres one thing I like to do is when you're in my house at my table and eating...nothing electronic while were eating. In this day and age of electronic gadgets, I feel the family table should be reserved to speaking with
your mouth only. Thats the only social aspect that I allow at my table. Besides
theres plently of time left for that ipad or checking your emails after you eat.

Of course I don't take your phone and smash it on the ground. I just polity remember them that their friends and family are around them and they don't need
their phones or gadgets to talk to them or something similar. It always works.


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Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:45 pm

omg, I ended up playing doom 2 and warcraft 2 over some friends I made on a bbs as well. BBS's social aspect was/still is great. I even knew a BBS that could run doom 2 on it and was able to play 4 players on it. I don't know how he managed to do it though. I'd like to know.

Years ago I also saw a BBS that allowed playing a game (Descent or Descent 2, I think) multi-player through the BBS. I don't know how that worked.. Back in the day, I eventually started using Kali to play DOS multiplayer games over the internet (Kali emulated an IPX/SPX network for such games to allow them to be played over an IP-based network such as the internet).

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Bigbangnet on Fri Feb 09 2018 02:19 pm

Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:45 pm

omg, I ended up playing doom 2 and warcraft 2 over some friends I made on a bbs as well. BBS's social aspect was/still is great. I even knew a BBS that could run doom 2 on it and was able to play 4 players on it. I don't know how he managed to do it though. I'd like to know.

Years ago I also saw a BBS that allowed playing a game (Descent or Descent 2, I think) multi-player through the BBS. I don't know how that worked.. Back in the day, I eventually started using Kali to play DOS multiplayer games over the internet (Kali emulated an IPX/SPX network for such games to allow them to be played over an IP-based network such as the internet).

Domain Entertainment had an add-on for Synchronet (or maybe it worked for other BBS software too) - which allowed multiplayer DOOM and other games through the BBS. I forget what it was called, but apparently it was not the only solution out there.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #26:
FTSC = FidoNet Technical Standards Committee
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Re: Hello
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 02:37 pm

Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Bigbangnet on Fri Feb 09 2018 02:19 pm

Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:45 pm

omg, I ended up playing doom 2 and warcraft 2 over some friends I made on a bbs as well. BBS's social aspect was/still is great. I even knew a BBS that could run doom 2 on it and was able to play 4 players on it. I don't know how he managed to do it though. I'd like to know.

Years ago I also saw a BBS that allowed playing a game (Descent or Descent 2, I think) multi-player through the BBS. I don't know how that worked.. Back in the day, I eventually started using Kali to play DOS multiplayer games over the internet (Kali emulated an IPX/SPX network for such games to allow them to be played over an IP-based network such as the internet).

Domain Entertainment had an add-on for Synchronet (or maybe it worked for other BBS software too) - which allowed multiplayer DOOM and other games through the BBS. I forget what it was called, but apparently it was not the only solution out there.

Ah, found it:

Directory : (4) Synchronet Files from Other Developers
Filename : DDL100C.ZIP
File size : 65,971
Credit value : FREE
Description : Domain DataLink v1.00c - DOOM & More on your BBS! MORE SPE Uploaded by : -> ADDFILES <-
File date : Tue Nov 18 1997 02:06 pm
Uploaded on : Sat Jul 27 2002 01:11 am
Last downloaded : Tue Jun 27 2017 09:20 pm
Times downloaded : 191

Domain DataLink v1.00c - DOOM & More on your BBS!
MORE SPEED IMPROVEMENTS! FASTER, FASTER!
Domain DataLink allows for your users
to play DOOM, Falcon 3, DOOM ][, and
many other modem games through your BBS.
It also allows for DIRECT user to user
transfers and more!
Works with most BBS packages supporting
XTRN.DAT, DOOR.SYS, PCBOARD.SYS,
DORINFO#.DEF, SFDOORS.DAT, and CHAIN.TXT
dropfiles.

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #33:
Nigel Tufnel: Well, so what? What's wrong with bein' sexy?
Norco, CA WX: 76.6øF, 34.0% humidity, 6 mph NE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Re: Hello
By: harry crotchington to All on Thu Feb 08 2018 07:29:13

Hi, nice to meet you! All the dovenet message areas are linked togather with dozens of other bbs's..

Marisa
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Re: Hello
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 02:37 pm

Years ago I also saw a BBS that allowed playing a game (Descent or
Descent 2, I think) multi-player through the BBS. I don't know how

Domain Entertainment had an add-on for Synchronet (or maybe it worked for other BBS software too) - which allowed multiplayer DOOM and other games through the BBS. I forget what it was called, but apparently it was not the only solution out there.

Interesting.. I think the one I saw was for MajorBBS.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:45 pm

Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to harry crotchington on Thu Feb 08 2018 09:43:43

omg, I ended up playing doom 2 and warcraft 2 over some friends I made on a bbs
as well. BBS's social aspect was/still is great. I even knew a BBS that could run doom 2 on it and was able to play 4 players on it. I don't know how he managed to do it though. I'd like to know.

there was software you could use. worldgroup could do it , too.
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Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:50 pm

Theres one thing I like to do is when you're in my house at my table and eating...nothing electronic while were eating. In this day and age of electronic gadgets, I feel the family table should be reserved to speaking with
your mouth only. Thats the only social aspect that I allow at my table. Besides

you suck!
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Re: Hello
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 02:42 pm

to play DOOM, Falcon 3, DOOM ][, and
many other modem games through your BBS.
It also allows for DIRECT user to user
transfers and more!
Works with most BBS packages supporting
XTRN.DAT, DOOR.SYS, PCBOARD.SYS,
DORINFO#.DEF, SFDOORS.DAT, and CHAIN.TXT
dropfiles.

digital man

i think i used to play against my users one on one by killing my bbs but leaving the call open and running the software.

my friend spent a ton of money on worldgroup and addons and we played 4 player doom2 ONCE against eachother.
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HARRY CROTCHINGTON wrote to ALL <=-

@VIA: KK4QBN
@MSGID: <5A7C4299.6858.dove-general@kk4qbn.com>
I'm new to the BBS Scene, Of course my last name is fake, but my name
is harry and you can call me Chuy, this BBS is cool. I wish I was alive
to see them in their "heyday" before all the popups that people call
the world wide web.

Welcome! I'm not a sysop (BBS operator) - just another user - but
I love the message bases and the 'real' conversation!

So far I'm loving what I see at this BBS I visited. How many BBS
systems are out there and can I talk to all of them here? I like the
BBS I'm on, the person running it leaves me alone. I tried calling
another before this one but before I could get signed up all the way
the operator already had me in a chat window talking to me about stuff that I had no idea what they were talking about.

No idea how many there still are in the world, but it's nice that
you can telnet pretty much anywhere. The one I use is the closest
to 'home' that I could find - it's about 80 miles away. Would
love for there to be something actually local, but those days
are long gone. :-)

There are fewer and fewer users out there. The sysop was probably
excited to meet someone new! :-)

O hope to make some friends, and I believe I will make this my home
bbs, and visit others from time to time as long as I'mg left alone long enough to do something.

Where is home to you? BBS home and is it close to you? I telnet to
one in Memphis, but I'm actually in Northwest Tennessee.

Also - what other hobbies do you have? I'm a HAM Radio operator, but
that's lower down on the hobby list. I'm a musician and I love gaming
(I play SOME video games, but I'm talking RPG's, board games, etc. -
x-wing minis is my favorite game right now - I still run Car Wars games
online for people, and I just ordered Gaslands).




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HUSTLER wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my
wife and kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want to keep your family spend time with them. Just sayin.

Good advice to anyone. :-) Most of my BBS'ing back in the day was
late at night when I couldn't sleep. And my wife enjoyed the BBS's
too, so that was okay. :-)


... I am Procrastitron. I will destroy you, eventually.
--- MultiMail/Darwin v0.49
þ wcQWK 7.0 ÷ Omicron Theta * Olive Branch MS * (662) 408-4283

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my wife an H>kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want to keep your fami H>spend time with them. Just sayin.

Do you, Sysop, take this BBS, to be your lawfully wedded spouse??

Well, the computer is in the bedroom, but I'm the one getting screwed.


Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HUSTLER on Sat Feb 10 2018 07:36:00

HUSTLER wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

Oh man do I miss those days. Only problem was I spent no time with my wife and kid. Some advice to you younger computer lovers if you want to keep your family spend time with them. Just sayin.

Good advice to anyone. :-) Most of my BBS'ing back in the day was
late at night when I couldn't sleep. And my wife enjoyed the BBS's
too, so that was okay. :-)

... I am Procrastitron. I will destroy you, eventually.

Wow! Your wife enjoyed BBS'in? How did you meet? I've often wondered
what it be like to have someone with similar intrests. Good for you!

HusTler

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Yep, it's good to keep that balance and remember what's important in life. N>It's fine to have hobbies & things you like to do and work on, but family is N>important.

Q: Do you, Sysop, take this BBS, to be your lawfully wedded spouse??
A: Well, it's in the bedroom, but I'm the one getting screwed. :P

That was the way it was before I got married in 2003 (been a widower
since 2007). But, my wife (and Co-Sysop) were truly "A Married With
Modem Couple", and had ironically met on a BBS run by the local
college's computer science department.

Daryl

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Jimmy,

Good advice to anyone. :-) Most of my BBS'ing back in the day was
late at night when I couldn't sleep. And my wife enjoyed the BBS's
too, so that was okay. :-)

That's where I met the woman who was to become my wife many years
later...on a BBS run by the computer science department of the local
college. While the BBS is gone, I'm the college's ham radio club license
exam team leader.

Daryl

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Re: Hello
By: Daryl Stout to NIGHTFOX on Sun Feb 11 2018 12:17 pm

Q: Do you, Sysop, take this BBS, to be your lawfully wedded spouse??
A: Well, it's in the bedroom, but I'm the one getting screwed. :P

Reminds me of a comic I saw a while ago.. "Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband? Do you take her to be your lawfully wedded wife? You may now update your Facebook status."

That was the way it was before I got married in 2003 (been a widower
since 2007). But, my wife (and Co-Sysop) were truly "A Married With
Modem Couple", and had ironically met on a BBS run by the local
college's computer science department.

That's cool. :)

Nightfox

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Wow! Your wife enjoyed BBS'in? How did you meet? I've often wondered
what it be like to have someone with similar intrests. Good for you!

Even though this directed to Jimmy Anderson, that's how I met the
woman who'd later become my wife.

The local college (the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock) Computer Science Department, had a BBS...and that's where we met. We were friends
for 17 1/2 years, and never thought about marriage...let alone to each
other. She eventually became a user, then Co-Sysop, then Married With
Modem Sysop.

Her eyesight wasn't that great, but she'd spot errors in bulletins,
etc. that I'd miss!! She also was a fierce competitor in the
doorgames...a great winner, but she sure was a sore loser!!

Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Daryl Stout to HUSTLER on Mon Feb 12 2018 05:26 pm

Wow! Your wife enjoyed BBS'in? How did you meet? I've often wondered
what it be like to have someone with similar intrests. Good for you!

Even though this directed to Jimmy Anderson, that's how I met the
woman who'd later become my wife.

The local college (the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock) Computer Science Department, had a BBS...and that's where we met. We were friends for 17 1/2 years, and never thought about marriage...let alone to each other. She eventually became a user, then Co-Sysop, then Married With Modem Sysop.

What a great story! I wonder if this happened to other BBS goers. I attended a few user meets back the day. I don't recall seeing many women at the meets. Who knew where online dating would go?

... YouTube, Twitter, & FaceBook will combine to form YouTwitFace.

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Nightfox wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

Reminds me of a comic I saw a while ago.. "Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband? Do you take her to be your lawfully
wedded wife? You may now update your Facebook status."

ROFL!!! :D


... 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
þ Synchronet þ Freeway BBS, Bendigo Australia. freeway.apana.org.au

Q: Do you, Sysop, take this BBS, to be your lawfully wedded spouse??
A: Well, it's in the bedroom, but I'm the one getting screwed. :P

Reminds me of a comic I saw a while ago.. "Do you take this man to be your N>lawfully wedded husband? Do you take her to be your lawfully wedded wife? Y N>may now update your Facebook status."

I saw that one!! I thought "Has it really come down to this??!!". :P

That was the way it was before I got married in 2003 (been a widower since 2007). But, my wife (and Co-Sysop) were truly "A Married With Modem Couple", and had ironically met on a BBS run by the local college's computer science department.

That's cool. :)

I thought so, too. I really loved the local gatherings, to put names
to faces, and especially to "graze". Like so many other things, you
don't call us "late for dinner". <G>

Daryl

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What a great story! I wonder if this happened to other BBS goers. I attended H>few user meets back the day. I don't recall seeing many women at the meets. W H>knew where online dating would go?

We had quite a few female users in the area. One heavy set woman ran
an adult BBS in the area, and was "carding" potential users at the
gatherings. There were actually 2 adult BBS's in the area...both, like
all the rest, are long gone now (I have a bulletin on my BBS, listing
the long gone BBS's in Arkansas). Janice never cared for stuff like
that, and I never called those BBS's...even though I was of legal age.

One thing we did do, though...as husband and wife...was what we called
"Adult HGTV"...buying porn. The reason for that was when you have an
underlying medical condition of some sort (such as diabetes), it
adversely affects ones libido...never mind the lady who filed a lawsuit
against Wal-Mart, who said "she lost her libido after falling off of a
stool"!! :P

Anyway, we used the adult videos to "prime the pump". Yet, the funnier
part was that we "critiqued" the videos...whether on Valentine's Day
(which it is as I type this), or otherwise.

Now in some of them, the items on the sets, such as the bed, the
chandelier, and the framed paintings, were neat. The woodworking pattern
on the bed frames were exquisite...and you could tell that a lot of
time and effort was put into crafting it. The chandelier lights added a
certain ambience to the atmosphere, plus the paintings were beautiful,
and varied.

But, one thing neither Janice nor myself could figure out was WHY the
women had to keep those pointy high heel shoes on while having sex!! I
said "I'd be afraid of getting gored to death!!". :P I heard some say
that "the woman feels it's sexy to have them on"...thanks, but no
thanks!! :P

Outside of that, when a member of the opposite sex gave us a hug,
kiss, etc., we'd razz the other one unmercilessly. Yet, as a paraphrase
of the country-western song noted, "We had all the love, that one could want...waiting for us at home". We knew which side "our bread was
buttered on", and we had that trust and commitment between us, in so
many ways. Tragically, I lost my wife to a massive heart attack 3 weeks
shy of our 4th wedding anniversary (nearly 11 years ago now), and I have
never re-married. I didn't marry until I was 43...but, never dreamed
that I'd be a widower at 47.

Sadly, nowadays, so many relationships don't have that. I heard of 4 instances of this "lack of commitment":

1) At one wedding reception, 15 minutes after they were pronounced "man
and wife", the newly married couple announced that they were getting a divorce!!

2) At another reception, the groom angrily tore up the marriage
certificate and license. In some areas now, if you don't return that to
the place of issuance (such as the County Courthouse) within a certain
time period, you have to pay a hefty fine.

3) At another reception, the couple got into a knock down, drag out,
whip your ass fight. I don't know if others got into the brawl, or if
the police had to be called.

4) At the altar, when the preacher said "If there's anyone here, who
doesn't want this couple married, let them speak now, or forever hold
their peace"...it was the bride who spoke up...she got cold feet at the
altar!! But, both families were absolutely furious, as they had spent
all that money!!

As a side note, when Janice and I went down to the county
courthouse to get our marriage license, the court reporter made a
mistake in preparing it. She entered the year of my wife's birth as 1658 INSTEAD of 1958!! I said "She sure looks good for 344 years of age"...to
which Janice quipped "Well, I do sell Avon!!" <BG>. It brought the house
down in laughter...so much so, that the law enforcement officers in the building came inside to see what was going on. The clerk was as red as a
tomato from embarrassment!! :P She had to tear up the botched license,
and start over...entering the data via a typewriter!!

... YouTube, Twitter, & FaceBook will combine to form YouTwitFace.

In a word, really.

Daryl

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But never dreamed I'd be a widower at 47

That's rough man, sorry to hear that. Enjoyed your story though.
And yeah, it seems after the 2008 crash our entire culture shifted, divorce rates skyrocketed and with a generation of kids being raised during a messy divorce many young adults don't want to get married. It's sad, but understandable.

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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to Daryl Stout on Thu Feb 15 2018 06:09 am

during a messy divorce many young adults don't want to get married. It's sad, but understandable.

I've heard from people who say they don't want to get married, yet they seem to be just as willing to be in a committed relationship as anyone else.. So I don't quite understand the logic.

Nightfox

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02-13-18 14:13 HusTler wrote to Daryl Stout about Re: Hello
Howdy! HusTler,

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Daryl Stout to HUSTLER on Mon Feb 12 2018 05:26 pm

Wow! Your wife enjoyed BBS'in? How did you meet? I've often wondered
what it be like to have someone with similar intrests. Good for you!

Even though this directed to Jimmy Anderson, that's how I met the
woman who'd later become my wife.

The local college (the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock) Computer Science Department, had a BBS...and that's where we met. We were friends for 17 1/2 years, and never thought about marriage...let alone to each other. She eventually became a user, then Co-Sysop, then Married With Modem Sysop.

What a great story! I wonder if this happened to other BBS goers. I attended a few user meets back the day. I don't recall seeing many
women at the meets. Who knew where online dating would go?

I Remember in the late 1980's a BBS SysOp in the Louisville, Kentucky
area Married a Lady User of His BBS.

... YouTube, Twitter, & FaceBook will combine to form YouTwitFace.

Good Tagline, Thanks!


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Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Elaek on Thu Feb 15 2018 09:46 am

Re: Re: Re: Hello
By: Elaek to Daryl Stout on Thu Feb 15 2018 06:09 am

during a messy divorce many young adults don't want to get married. It's sad, but understandable.

I've heard from people who say they don't want to get married, yet they seem to be just as willing to be in a committed relationship as anyone else.. So I don't quite understand the logic.

divorces arent really that messy anymore. it's pretty easy to get a divorce if both parties work together.

you can be in a commited relationshit and still go through the same crap when you split up.
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I Remember in the late 1980's a BBS SysOp in the Louisville, Kentucky
area Married a Lady User of His BBS.

Wasn't me. :D

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02-15-18 18:54 Dumas Walker wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Hello
Howdy! Mike,

@MSGID: <5A862462.28101.dove-gen@capitolcityonline.net>
@REPLY: <5A85C547.28092.dove-gen@capitolcityonline.net>

I Remember in the late 1980's a BBS SysOp in the Louisville, Kentucky
area Married a Lady User of His BBS.

Wasn't me. :D

Nope, twas a BBS SysOp near Your neighborhood back then (iirc).

D. D. is who I'm thinking of.



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But never dreamed I'd be a widower at 47

That's rough man, sorry to hear that. Enjoyed your story though.

Thanks.

And yeah, it seems after the 2008 crash our entire culture shifted, divorce E>rates skyrocketed and with a generation of kids being raised during a messy E>divorce many young adults don't want to get married. It's sad, but E>understandable.

My brother has been divorced 3 times...each time, the woman "screwed
him over" (and not in the "traditional way" :P ). I doubt he'll ever get married again. He, like so many of us, doesn't like to be lectured, and
told what to do. But, in a relationship, both sides have to give and
take, for it it work.

Daryl

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during a messy divorce many young adults don't want to get married. It's sad, but understandable.

I've heard from people who say they don't want to get married, yet they seem N>be just as willing to be in a committed relationship as anyone else.. So I N>don't quite understand the logic.

See the tagline below. <G>

Daryl

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HUSTLER wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

Wow! Your wife enjoyed BBS'in? How did you meet? I've often wondered what it be like to have someone with similar intrests. Good for you!

We met at church - we had been married several years before
BBS's came along. :-)



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Nope, twas a BBS SysOp near Your neighborhood back then (iirc).
D. D. is who I'm thinking of.

Yeah, I remember hearing about that. I had forgot all about it! :D

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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Bigbangnet on Fri Feb 09 2018 14:19:14

Oh ya, I remember Kali. i used it too. But that was too long ago. I can't remember a thing about it.


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Re: Hello
By: MRO to Bigbangnet on Fri Feb 09 2018 22:40:18

Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Fri Feb 09 2018 03:50 pm

Theres one thing I like to do is when you're in my house at my table and eating...nothing electronic while were eating. In this day and age of electronic gadgets, I feel the family table should be reserved to speaking with
your mouth only. Thats the only social aspect that I allow at my table. Besides

you suck!

At least I'm social...or trying too anyways. I'm old fashion

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Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Thu Feb 22 2018 10:47 am

Oh ya, I remember Kali. i used it too. But that was too long ago. I can't remember a thing about it.

I remember Kali had chat rooms (similar to IRC) for the various multiplayer DOS games that were popular so you could see who's playing what and go join a game.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Bigbangnet to MRO on Thu Feb 22 2018 10:49 am

Theres one thing I like to do is when you're in my house at my table and eating...nothing electronic while were eating. In this day and age of electronic gadgets, I feel the family table should be reserved to speaking with
your mouth only. Thats the only social aspect that I allow at my table. Besides

you suck!

At least I'm social...or trying too anyways. I'm old fashion

i dont like to talk when i'm eating. i was thinking of your post the other day when i was at a restaurant. there was a big group and there was a lady there who was being annoying and never really eating much.

i really enjoy using my phone on keeping up with news or whatever. i like to be entertained. people suck.
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Hey there, everyone.

Hopefully this message reaches you all, I'm Nodoka, a new BBS SysOp from the states, and uh.. I genuinely hope to god what just happened did not just happen.

Long story short, for god knows what reason my Mystic BBS system, (I know
this place is a Syncrhonet-oriented network) while I was configuring QWK and getting it going, confused my board's local announcements board - how I'll never know, for the Advertisements board.

And the state showed as sent on my end, before I had frantically deleted it, hoping that Mystic was off its'goddamn rocker. Apparently on my end when I
did a manual initial qwkpoll, nothing went out apparently (0 exports), so I'm just going to hope that after sending this out, this will be the only message that goes out.

... That weird banter aside, it's nice to meet all of you.

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Re: Hello
By: Nodoka Hanamura to All on Wed Oct 02 2019 02:25 pm

Hey there, everyone.

Hopefully this message reaches you all, I'm Nodoka, a new BBS SysOp from the states, and uh.. I genuinely hope to god what just happened did not just happen.

Long story short, for god knows what reason my Mystic BBS system, (I know this place is a Syncrhonet-oriented network) while I was configuring QWK and getting it going, confused my board's local announcements board - how I'll never know, for the Advertisements board.

And the state showed as sent on my end, before I had frantically deleted it, hoping that Mystic was off its'goddamn rocker. Apparently on my end when I did a manual initial qwkpoll, nothing went out apparently (0 exports), so I'm just going to hope that after sending this out, this will be the only message that goes out.

... That weird banter aside, it's nice to meet all of you.

Hello back! :) This is the only message I have seen from your bbs.

And welcome to BBS land. :)

echto

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Re: Hello
By: Nodoka Hanamura to All on Wed Oct 02 2019 14:25:00

Hey there, everyone.

Hopefully this message reaches you all, I'm Nodoka, a new BBS SysOp from the states, and uh.. I genuinely hope to god what just happened did not just happen.

Long story short, for god knows what reason my Mystic BBS system, (I know this place is a Syncrhonet-oriented network) while I was configuring QWK and getting it going, confused my board's local announcements board - how I'll never know, for the Advertisements board.

And the state showed as sent on my end, before I had frantically deleted it, hoping that Mystic was off its'goddamn rocker. Apparently on my end when I did a manual initial qwkpoll, nothing went out apparently (0 exports), so I'm just going to hope that after sending this out, this will be the only message that goes out.

... That weird banter aside, it's nice to meet all of you.

Yep, this is the only message I've seen from you.

-Dallas Vinson
Furmens Folly - telnet: loybbs.net:23
SSH: loybbs.net:23222
Before the Web - telnet: loybbs.net:23232
Legends of Yesteryear - telnet: loybbs.net:23322

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Yep, this is the only message I've seen from you.

That's a relief. Thank you :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/32)
* Origin: NeoCincinnati BBS

Hello back! :) This is the only message I have seen from your bbs.

And welcome to BBS land. :)

Thank you! It's good to be here.

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Hello everybody! :)

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Re: Hello
By: reeza to All on Mon Apr 27 2020 07:11 pm

Hello everybody! :)

Well hello to you too fine person. Are you new to BBS as I am?
My curiosity for all things retro brought me to the BBS, and I find them fascinating. I was always fond of pixel art, ascii/ansi art, and interfaces based on them so this is right up my alley, and perfect for sharing a 10Mb/s 600ms latency connection with 300 people and an IT infrastructure, as I currently am.

I hope you and the people you love are doing well in these strange times.

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On 04-27-20 18:11, reeza mumbled to All about Hello.

Hello everybody! :)

Howdy, reeza!
Grease
Dark Matter BBS

QWK: DoveNet, fsxNet, SFNet, SciNet
FTN: AgoraNet (46:10/135), Fidonet (1:106/101), TQWNet (1337:3/120)
... What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind! - Homer S.
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Hello All,

New user here, believe it or not, I have never ever logged into a BBS before. This is pretty great stuff. Hope to make a lot of new friends here.

Jimmy

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Hello All,
New user here, believe it or not, I have never ever logged into a BBS before. This is pretty great stuff. Hope to make a lot of new friends here.

Well welcome, Jimmy... its fun in here, take yer clothes off!

Errrr, Nevermind...



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

Re: Hello
By: James Christenbury to All on Tue Sep 15 2020 10:00 am

New user here, believe it or not, I have never ever logged into a BBS before. This is pretty great stuff. Hope to make a lot of new friends here.

Welcome!

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: James Christenbury to All on Tue Sep 15 2020 10:00 am

Hello All,

New user here, believe it or not, I have never ever logged into a BBS before This is pretty great stuff. Hope to make a lot of new friends here.

Jimmy

Hi Jimmy,

Welcome to the wonderful world of BBS'ing!!!

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Testing this out!

Hello World!

... The ox is slow, but the Earth is patient.
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Re: Hello
By: Exodus to All on Sat Feb 19 2022 10:38 pm

Testing this out!

Hello World!

... The ox is slow, but the Earth is patient.

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On Feb 19, 2022 10:38pm, EXODUS wrote to ALL:

@VIA: TTB
@MSGID: <6211B8CC.123314.dove-gen@vert.synchro.net>
Testing this out!

Hello World!

... The ox is slow, but the Earth is patient.
--- MNET 2.10 [NR]
þ The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info

Welcome aboard! :)

... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!
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Re: Hello
By: Exodus to All on Sat Feb 19 2022 10:38 pm

Testing this out!
Hello World!

Hello, there :3
I am dexilant.

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Just saying hi!

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Just saying hi!

HI !

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Re: Hello
By: Kyler Vanderschee to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 11:24 pm

Just saying hi!

Howdy from Texas...

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Re: Hello
By: Kyler Vanderschee to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 11:24 pm

Just saying hi!

Hello!

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Re: Hello
By: Kyler Vanderschee to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 11:24 pm

Just saying hi!

Hello & welcome!
`'`' roalt `'`'

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Hello, I am brand new to this BBS and I'm sure you've seen people like me before but here goes nothing. I am in awe at this place! I cannot believe
that this used to be what the internet was, and still is (Kind of)! It's fascinating to know that the Internet has come so far since the creation of
the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for "Calling"!

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Re: Hello
By: Aaronfire7 to All on Sat May 07 2022 01:50 pm

Hello, I am brand new to this BBS and I'm sure you've seen people like me before but here goes nothing. I am in awe at this place! I cannot believe that this used to be what the internet was, and still is (Kind of)! It's fascinating to know that the Internet has come so far since the creation of the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for "Calling"!

þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net

Welcome!
Keep in mind this is a networked message board, where your message can be read by people on many different BBSes. So when you say "this BBS", I assume you mean The Cave BBS?

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew about BBSes. There were so many BBSes in my area though, and it has been sad to see them all pretty much disappear except for a select few.

Nightfox

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Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Aaronfire7 on Sat May 07 2022 02:56 pm

Re: Hello
By: Aaronfire7 to All on Sat May 07 2022 01:50 pm

Hello, I am brand new to this BBS and I'm sure you've seen people like before but here goes nothing. I am in awe at this place! I cannot belie that this used to be what the internet was, and still is (Kind of)! It' fascinating to know that the Internet has come so far since the creatio of the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for "Calling"!

þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net

Welcome!
Keep in mind this is a networked message board, where your message can be re by people on many different BBSes. So when you say "this BBS", I assume you mean The Cave BBS?

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew about BBSes. There were so many BBSes in my area though, and it has been sad to see them all pretty muc disappear except for a select few.

Nightfox

Probably should also point it this wasn't how The Internet was. BBS's were separate to the Internet. It was a way for people to connect computers and message and chat and share files without the Internet.

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the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for "Calling"!

Hi and welcome :-)

I don't want to be the guy, but maybe 91-92 was the golden age, but BBS was there before that. 78 could be the start, I guess. A friend started his around 83.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Ennev to Aaronfire7 on Mon May 09 2022 10:15 am

the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for "Calling"!

Hi and welcome :-)

I don't want to be the guy, but maybe 91-92 was the golden age, but BBS was there before that. 78 could be the start, I guess. A friend started his arou 83.

By 91, every area had more than one local BBS, and 2400 baud modems could be bought for cheap at the Electronics Boutique in the mall. ISP's didn't take over in my area until 96-97. Getting Windows 95 was the main reason many of our customers chose to upgrade. they have been happy with their 386's and 486's with 2400 baud modems, and were forced to move to a Pentium and a 14.4k modem

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Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Sun May 08 2022 10:59 am

so far since the creatio of the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for

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Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Sun May 08 2022 10:59 am

so far since the creatio of the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for

Well BBS'ing really began in the 70's
I ran my 1st BBS in the mid 80's.

Keep in mind this is a networked message board, where your message can
be re by people on many different BBSes. So when you say "this BBS",
I assume you mean The Cave BBS?

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of
households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes. There were so many BBSes in my area though, and it has
been sad to see them all pretty muc disappear except for a select few.

Yes, sad indeed, but now we're back and better.

Probably should also point it this wasn't how The Internet was. BBS's were separate to the Internet. It was a way for people to connect computers and message and chat and share files without the Internet.

True But BBS's were the first experience for many to connect to antother computer.

... Life is like... an analogy.

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Denn wrote to Boraxman <=-

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes.

It felt like you were part of a secret society that few people you
encountered even knew about. You'd meet someone and mention something
about connect tones or downloading, and if you saw a glint in their
eyes knew that they knew.


... It is simply a matter of work
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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon May 16 2022 06:47 am

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of
households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes.

That's the most shocking thing to me, as a young'un. Reading BBS literature, it seems that, back in the 80s, every teenager had one running in their basement.

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."


Part of that might be regional, seeing as how I'm from the middle part of the country, but I'm still stunned. Even people who can rattle off their old PC specs from memory don't seem to remember BBSes.

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Re: Hello
By: Denn to Boraxman on Sun May 15 2022 09:16 pm

Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Sun May 08 2022 10:59 am

so far since the creatio of the BBS in 1991-1992. Thanks for

Well BBS'ing really began in the 70's
I ran my 1st BBS in the mid 80's.

Keep in mind this is a networked message board, where your message can
be re by people on many different BBSes. So when you say "this BBS",
I assume you mean The Cave BBS?

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes. There were so many BBSes in my area though, and it has
been sad to see them all pretty muc disappear except for a select few.

Yes, sad indeed, but now we're back and better.

Probably should also point it this wasn't how The Internet was. BBS's were separate to the Internet. It was a way for people to connect computers and message and chat and share files without the Internet.

True But BBS's were the first experience for many to connect to antother computer.

i think a lot of sysops are short sighted about bbsing and human interation.

bbses provided a way for people to interact with eachother. the interaction is how that was fun. it had little to do with the bbses. it was a tool that provided interaction. now people use twitter, facebook, instagram and snapchat.

nothing has changed.

maybe we're autistic and keep focusing on the literal technology to truly realize this.
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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon May 16 2022 06:47 am

Denn wrote to Boraxman <=-

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes.

It felt like you were part of a secret society that few people you
encountered even knew about. You'd meet someone and mention something
about connect tones or downloading, and if you saw a glint in their
eyes knew that they knew.

someone got one of captain crunch's hugs.
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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 17 2022 03:57 pm

That's the most shocking thing to me, as a young'un. Reading BBS literature, it seems that, back in the 80s, every teenager had one running in their basement.

there's not much bbs literature. and no, not every teenager had a bbs in their basement. why would it be in the basement anyways?

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."

people left that stuff behind.
just like i left gopher behind. it sucks so i'm not going to use it again. when i used it, there wasnt anything better, but that has changed.
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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon May 16 2022 06:47 am

Denn wrote to Boraxman <=-

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes.

It felt like you were part of a secret society that few people you
encountered even knew about. You'd meet someone and mention something
about connect tones or downloading, and if you saw a glint in their
eyes knew that they knew.

... It is simply a matter of work

For me, it was being part of some underground. You had access to Module Tracker files, the Demoscene, cool ansi, a cyberpunk aesthetic and PeoPlE WhO WroTe LiKE tHiS uSInG CrAzy cAPs. That and the wierd obscure stuff you like find, like infamous manifesto's... *cough*.

The 90's web was also pretty awesome, but its been homogenised to "Social Media" which is boooooring and bland now.

BBS's were a destination, a place to visit, poke around. Some webpages were like that too but this model has lost favour to having a 'feed' style presentation.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Margaerynne on Tue May 17 2022 05:06 pm

there's not much bbs literature. and no, not every teenager had a bbs in th

I'm definitely no teenager, but my BBS is in the basement because that's where all my servers are.

o
(O)
BeLLy

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Belly to MRO on Tue May 17 2022 05:46 pm

Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Margaerynne on Tue May 17 2022 05:06 pm

there's not much bbs literature. and no, not every teenager had a bbs in th

I'm definitely no teenager, but my BBS is in the basement because that's where all my servers are.

i'm talking about back then.

hope you dont have a lot of moisture in your basement.
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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 17 2022 03:57 pm

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."

Early on, you needed a dedicated PC - and you needed a phone line. Both could be expensive.

I've always used hand-me-down PCs, but installing a phone line was still $75 for the install and another $25 or so a month, even with measured-rate calling. Since people were mostly calling the board, you could get per-call billing with a lower base cost than the flat-rate calling plans.

Not everyone was willing to make that commitment, but they didn't have to - there were dozens of BBSes in most metropolitan calling areas.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 18 2022 08:38 am

For me, it was being part of some underground. You had access to Module Tracker files, the Demoscene, cool ansi, a cyberpunk aesthetic and PeoPlE WhO WroTe LiKE tHiS uSInG CrAzy cAPs. That and the wierd obscure stuff you like find, like infamous manifesto's... *cough*.

And, the conspiracy theories! We all stayed up late BBSing and listening to Art Bell -- and writing about remote viewing, the illuminati, the globalist bank cartel, the people who kept UFOs under wraps, and the aliens that walk among us.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 17 2022 03:57 pm

Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon May 16 2022 06:47 am

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of
households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes.

That's the most shocking thing to me, as a young'un. Reading BBS literature, seems that, back in the 80s, every teenager had one running in their baseme

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."

Part of that might be regional, seeing as how I'm from the middle part of th country, but I'm still stunned. Even people who can rattle off their old PC specs from memory don't seem to remember BBSes.

Only one of my friends used BBSs. He was the one that introduced me to them when I was loaned a 386 with a modem. I think another *may* have used them, but it was a niche thing, and this was in the 90's.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Tue May 17 2022 06:11 pm

Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 18 2022 08:38 am

For me, it was being part of some underground. You had access to Module Tracker files, the Demoscene, cool ansi, a cyberpunk aesthetic and PeoPl WhO WroTe LiKE tHiS uSInG CrAzy cAPs. That and the wierd obscure stuff y like find, like infamous manifesto's... *cough*.

And, the conspiracy theories! We all stayed up late BBSing and listening to Bell -- and writing about remote viewing, the illuminati, the globalist bank cartel, the people who kept UFOs under wraps, and the aliens that walk among us.

We didn't have Art Bell in Australia, but this kind of stuff is what I found on the late 90's internet. Websites about aliens on the moon, weird theories and beliefs of the Heavens Gate cult, Bob Black, the Church of Slack, UFO stuff, prophecies, etc.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Margaerynne on Tue May 17 2022 06:09 pm

That might be the divider. Were you in a hub back then?

Hard to get a BBS going when everyone around is either a farmer, a 50-something rocket scientist, or too poor to afford a computer, I guess

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Margaerynne on Wed May 18 2022 07:32 pm

Where did you live in the 90s?

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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Tue May 17 2022 07:31 pm

hope you dont have a lot of moisture in your basement.

No worries about static discharge.

And things have been running down there for 25 years now.

This is my third BBS, but my first basement. My first BBS ran on a TRS-80
Model III with a 300bps modem.

o
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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 17 2022 03:57 pm

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."

Totally. Relatively few people owned a PC and even fewer owned a modem. But *if* someone owned a modem, there was a good chance they were getting up on BBSs.

Part of that might be regional, seeing as how I'm from the middle part of th country, but I'm still stunned. Even people who can rattle off their old PC specs from memory don't seem to remember BBSes.

I think you're right about the regionalism. If you lived near a big, densely-settled metro, there were going to be a lot more boards in your local calling area. Plus, BBSing seemed to spread through word of mouth. Some folks who would have enjoyed it just never learned that BBSs existed.

I grew up in central MA where BBSs were fairly plentiful. I learned about
them from friends at the local (tabletop) gaming shop.

Kevin

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Belly to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 10:30 am

Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Tue May 17 2022 07:31 pm

hope you dont have a lot of moisture in your basement.

No worries about static discharge.

And things have been running down there for 25 years now.

This is my third BBS, but my first basement. My first BBS ran on a TRS-80 Model III with a 300bps modem.

I don't mean because of the static i mean because of the moisture.
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Re: Hello
By: Denn to Boraxman on Sun May 15 2022 09:16 pm

BBSes were fairly popular before the internet became popular. It
was a fun time. At the same time, it seemed like only a fraction of households had a computer at the time, so still not everyone knew
about BBSes. There were so many BBSes in my area though, and it has
been sad to see them all pretty muc disappear except for a select few.

You copied a paragraph I wrote to someone else and pasted it verbatim in your reply to boraxman.. ?

Nightfox

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Boraxman wrote to Margaerynne <=-

Only one of my friends used BBSs. He was the one that introduced me to them when I was loaned a 386 with a modem. I think another *may* have used them, but it was a niche thing, and this was in the 90's.

My company ran a 120-node dial-up WAN connecting cash registers to a
central hub. When they upgraded from 2400 to 9600 baud, they dumped
the old modem. A dozen or so ended up in my car, and at get-togethers
we used to give out modems with a floppy disk loaded with COMMO, and
a dialing directory full of *our* BBSes, with the idea people would
give them to their friends who didn't know about BBSing.

We got a couple of people into the scene who got a modem from
someone, so it seemed to work.



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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Wed May 18 2022 11:52 am

I don't mean because of the static i mean because of the moisture.

There's no problem with static because of the... Nevermind. This conversation is pointless.

o
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That's the most shocking thing to me, as a young'un. Reading BBS literature, i
seems that, back in the 80s, every teenager had one running in their basement

Yet when I find people in that age range -- even the old techies! -- and ask about BBSes, I get a confused look and a "No, we really only just used computers for college."

In the area I lived in at the time (1987-1997), most of the people running full-time BBSes during most of that time would be in their late 70s+ now.
Most of the people around my age or younger who ran them were either tech geeks, were running on commodores, and/or were running part-time systems
that didn't stay around long. Big metro area that, during the period circa 1987-1994, probably had 30-40 "big" BBSes running at any one time.

Where I live now, the BBS phase of online communications sort of got
skipped. By the time home computers became popular, the internet was available. Many people I know skipped from no online communications, other than at work, to smart phones, skipping the online PC experience all
together.


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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to Boraxman on Wed May 18 2022 09:55 am

Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Margaerynne on Wed May 18 2022 07:32 pm

Where did you live in the 90s?

Melbourne, Australia. I'm still here.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Dumas Walker to MARGAERYNNE on Wed May 18 2022 04:42 pm

Where I live now, the BBS phase of online communications sort of got skipped.

It's honestly sort of a bummer. Maybe things would be better if long-distance communication was on a smaller scale like that, rather than through giant megacorp social networks?

Granted, the 80s and 90s weren't exactly a time of harmony and understanding either, so that might be a pipe dream.


Also, there's definitely that selection bias with BBS nostalgia. Most people who are too old to post on the internet are probably not posting on the internet with their experiences.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Margaerynne on Thu May 19 2022 07:49 am

Melbourne, Australia. I'm still here.

Supporting my last comment, there's something still indescribably cool about having this conversation right now.

Now I'm realizing I know basically nothing about the development of phone service / early networks in Australia, which might be fun to look into.


If you don't mind me asking, do you have any particularly fond memories from that time?

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Margaerynne on Wed May 18 2022 07:32 pm

Only one of my friends used BBSs. He was the one that introduced me to them when I was loaned a 386 with a modem. I think another *may* have used them, but it was a niche thing, and this was in the 90's.

Back then, it seemed that home computers in general were a bit of a niche thing, at least until the mid 90s. But among computer users, I thought BBS usage was a relatively common thing. In the 90s, I knew several people who used BBSes, or at lest knew what they were. Among other things, BBSes were a fairly common way to find new software for your computer. The shareware concept was fairly common back then.

I was actually surprised when I was takling to a computer-savvy friend of mine in 1994 and I told him I had started running a BBS, and he didn't know what a BBS was.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Kevin Driscoll to Margaerynne on Wed May 18 2022 10:55 am

I grew up in central MA where BBSs were fairly plentiful. I learned about them from friends at the local (tabletop) gaming shop.

There were many BBSes in my area in the 90s too. I had learned about BBSes from family (my dad and older brother both used computers) and got a modem with my first (hand-me-down) computer in 1992.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Belly to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 05:21 pm

Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Wed May 18 2022 11:52 am

I don't mean because of the static i mean because of the moisture.

There's no problem with static because of the... Nevermind. This conversation is pointless.

MOISTURE. NOT STATIC.

https://i.imgur.com/ac80acu.png

^^^
moisture no bueno
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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Wed May 18 2022 10:54 pm

Not everyone lives in the same climate, you know?

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to Boraxman on Wed May 18 2022 08:31 pm

Re: Re: Hello
By: Boraxman to Margaerynne on Thu May 19 2022 07:49 am

Melbourne, Australia. I'm still here.

Supporting my last comment, there's something still indescribably cool about having this conversation right now.

Now I'm realizing I know basically nothing about the development of phone service / early networks in Australia, which might be fun to look into.

If you don't mind me asking, do you have any particularly fond memories from that time?

If you mean from my experience with BBSs? Or from the mid 90's when I started using them?

I had an Amstrad PC2386/65 on a table in my room. When I was introduced to BBS's (I was reluctant to try them out because I thought I'd be charged fees!) I was mostly shown the files areas. I do remember chatting, but it was a cool way to get new shareware and freeware games, MOD music, midi's, demos and utilities.

One memory I had with a BBS, was when I uploaded a freeware game "bananoid" I think it was, and when it came to enter the filename, it just entered "UPLOAD" automatically. Any subsequent time I want to upload, it would automatically put "upload" as the filename and then complain it was taken. I thought I broke the BBS!

I was at school the next day and it came up in conversation, and I mentioned I was the one who uploaded that file. He joked (I think a joke?) that I broke the BBS. I was worried that I stuffed it up! I logged back on, and I can't remember whether I sent a message or not, but the problem was fixed and it wasn't anything I did.

It coincided with a pretty good time in my life, so yes many many fond memories.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Wed May 18 2022 12:28 pm

Back then, it seemed that home computers in general were a bit of a niche thing, at least until the mid 90s. But among computer users, I thought BBS usage was a relatively common thing. In the 90s, I knew several people who used BBSes, or at lest knew what they were. Among other things, BBSes were fairly common way to find new software for your computer. The shareware concept was fairly common back then.

I was actually surprised when I was takling to a computer-savvy friend of mi in 1994 and I told him I had started running a BBS, and he didn't know what BBS was.

Nightfox

A few people I knew had home computers. My uncle was a little bit of an enthusiast, he had an expensive PC and a modem, which I later was in possession of. I was 15 when I started using BBS's, so it wasn't a common hobby amongst my peers. Perhaps amongst adults it was more common.

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Re: Re: Hello
By: Margaerynne to MRO on Thu May 19 2022 01:07 am

Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Wed May 18 2022 10:54 pm

Not everyone lives in the same climate, you know?

learn to quote
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Re: Re: Hello
By: MRO to Belly on Wed May 18 2022 10:54 pm

MOISTURE. NOT STATIC.

still pointless.

o
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BeLLy

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