Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Why did you come back ?

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Ennev wrote to All <=-

@VIA: VERT/MTLGEEK
Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Left it for practical reasons when I went broadband. Didn't expect to come back, though I wanted to.

Why did you come back ?

Love the BBS scene, and when I found it alive in 2015, I had to come back. :)


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Re: Forsaken
By: Ennev to All on Sat Jan 20 2018 10:14:51

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Why did you come back ?

No, I never thought that I would come back. I left BBSes because the Internet was becoming more common in a household. I was only connecting to BBSes just to download games back then, and the Internet provided that.

I came back because of curiosity, wondering if BBSes were still around. I came across the Telnet BBS Guide, and choose to sign up for MTLGeek. Never would I have ever thought that I would use a FreeDOS VM on my cell phone, dedicated to connecting to BBSes. If I were able to tell the younger me that I would carry a DOS machine around wherever I go, I would have been very impressed by it.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!
... Such fantastic times we're in now!

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Re: Forsaken
By: Ennev to All on Sat Jan 20 2018 10:14 am

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Why did you come back ?

I came back because of nostalgia, I had'nt even thought about BBS's for several years, then one day I googled BBS and found they were still around.
I then logged onto a few then looked for software and found synchronet and Mystic, I first played with mystic on a VPS then went to Synchronet on a VPS.
I now run two BBS's one mystic and one Synchronet both from home now. Synchronet is my main BBS ran on a 32bit windows thin client PC, the Mystic BBS is ran on a Raspberry PI3.
Im a software tinkerer and love both packages.
I first ran a BBS in 1988 on a Tandy Color Computer 2 on software written by my Brother in RS basic with hooks to a machine language fossil driver he found.
then in the early 90's I lived a few miles from Clark Development co.
(the makers of PCBoard) I ran PC Board 15.2 with a shareware CD until 1997.
so I came back because of the fond memories I had running a BBS :)

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

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Re: Forsaken
By: Ennev to All on Sat Jan 20 2018 10:14 am

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

I've left because of a lack of time or when I am out of town a lack of a computer to get online with. I'm going to look at a tablet or something along those lines so I have something I can easily take with me.

Why did you come back ?

It's in my blood I think. In those times when I am away I always think of the BBS when I have the time.. but no keyboard.. bummer!

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Because larger online service, like CompuServe, Delphi and stuff available on packet switched network. Then internet

Why did you come back ?

Nostalgia of the community and reading book like "The Hacker Crackdown" from Bruce Sterling. Made me nostalgic and researched then found Synchronet :-)

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I came back because of curiosity, wondering if BBSes were still around. I came across the Telnet BBS Guide, and choose to sign up for MTLGeek. Never would I have ever thought that I would use a FreeDOS VM on my cell phone, dedicated to connecting to BBSes. If I were able to tell the younger me
that I would carry a DOS machine around wherever I go, I would have been very impressed by it.

Yes, it's crazy when we think of it :-D

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Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?
Why did you come back ?

I have run a board, near continuously, since 1988. I have had times where I was not putting near as much time into it as others... where things were
pretty much on auto-pilot. I think that part of the reason stems from the
fact that the BBS software I was using went from being in constant
development one minute to being abandonded the next. That and, for a
while, the Internet seems like the future.

While I guess it still is, it does not necessarily offer the same "look and feel" that I was used to. Seems like the more "high-tech looking" websites become, the less I am interested in them.

With Usenet not as active as it was, there was no real replacement for
echomail on the Internet. :)

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Ennev wrote to Ennev <=-

@VIA: VERT/MTLGEEK

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Because larger online service, like CompuServe, Delphi and stuff
available on packet switched network. Then internet

Large commercial services never resally took off in Australia. There was Viatel, but it was horrendously expensive. BBSs held sway, until the Internet took off here in the mid 1990s.


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With Usenet not as active as it was, there was no real replacement for echomail on the Internet. :)

I agree on that, haven't been on Usenet much lately and I guess everybody else too. Kind of sad the state the place is.

Where does people actually talk about stuff? I don't believe it's on FaceBag, appart the ton of share on cat video and product my friend have liked there is little "meat" there.

Blog area where people where sharing is pretty much gone.

Puzzling that nothing picked the slack. Just glad there is some life here :-)

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Large commercial services never resally took off in Australia. There was Viatel, but it was horrendously expensive. BBSs held sway, until the Internet took off here in the mid 1990s.

They never really took here in Canada either before internet. You had to use packet switching network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet which wheren't free to connect to theses thing in the united state but cheaper than long distances.

Just the thing that turned me off back then I guess from BBS is that people where there for the downloads. So very little discussion and a lot of busy lines.

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Re: Forsaken
By: Ennev to All on Sat Jan 20 2018 10:14 am

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Left it in 2000 when I needed my BBS phone line for my business. I'd had an ISDN line subsidized by my employer that did double-duty as my internet access through an ISDN router at work and my BBS line. When I went to work for myself, I got DSL and converted the ISDN telephone number into my office number.

Once I discovered Synchronet in 2004, I set up a system in my garage and set it up as a telnet BBS. Been here ever since.

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Once I discovered Synchronet in 2004, I set up a system in my garage and
set it up as a telnet BBS. Been here ever since.

Telnet was our saviour :-) don't have to buy lines and accessible from everywhere. Don't know who did that but that was a great idea :-)

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Re: Forsaken
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ennev on Sun Jan 21 2018 06:49 pm

Once I discovered Synchronet in 2004, I set up a system in my garage and set it up as a telnet BBS. Been here ever since.

I used to wonder why someone would want to connect to a BBS via telnet when they had the internet available. I didn't see much point when I took my BBS down in 2000 (I thought BBSes were pretty much dead). But I later realized BBSes were still around and getting activity, and I found Synchronet in 2007 and set up a BBS again with it.

Nightfox

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I agree on that, haven't been on Usenet much lately and I guess everybody else >too. Kind of sad the state the place is.

I carry a few of the newsgroups that I used to find very active, just in
case the odd conversation ever starts in them.

Where does people actually talk about stuff? I don't believe it's on FaceBag, >appart the ton of share on cat video and product my friend have liked there is >little "meat" there.

Well, some folks I know do just about all their communicating on facebook
or by text or something else on their phones... I call them phone zombies.
I rarely ever see them put the things down.

Puzzling that nothing picked the slack. Just glad there is some life here :-)

Yeah, BBS is still where I do most of my "social media" sharing. :)

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Just the thing that turned me off back then I guess from BBS is that people where there for the downloads. So very little discussion and a lot of busy lines.

I think I lucked out. In the Louisville, KY, area was where I started
BBSing in the late 1980's, there was a good user base there that liked to
join in discussions a lot. Usually not too many file hogs. After about 10 years, I moved to a smaller town about an hour away... just far enough to
be long distance. Here, there never really was a BBS community. Folks
went pretty much from "nothing" straight to the Internet.

Most of my callers since then have been via my internet connections, or
folks who now have free or reduced long distance who call in from outside
the area.

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Dumas Walker to ENNEV on Mon Jan 22 2018 06:04 pm

Well, some folks I know do just about all their communicating on facebook
or by text or something else on their phones... I call them phone zombies.
I rarely ever see them put the things down.

that's me, i love my phone.
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Well, some folks I know do just about all their communicating on facebook or by text or something else on their phones... I call them phone zombies. I rarely ever see them put the things down.

that's me, i love my phone.

A phone zombie in charge of a bot net... oh, dear! :)

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Ennev wrote to All <=-

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Why did you come back ?

I left the BBS scene in 1994, when I first got on the Internet. Software selection was much better than the couple of dozen local BBSes I called, and more immediate than waiting for Walnut Creek CDs in the mail :)

I came back a few years ago because I missed the scene, the Usenet isn't much fun anymore, and the Internet at large is crap.



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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to Ennev on Sun Jan 28 2018 01:57 pm

Ennev wrote to All <=-

Did you even left the BBS scene thinking of never coming back ?

Why did you come back ?

I left the BBS scene in 1994, when I first got on the Internet. Software selection was much better than the couple of dozen local BBSes I called, and more immediate than waiting for Walnut Creek CDs in the mail :)

you sure about that? pickings were kinda sparse and it took a lot of time to find something. a bbs with a good file area would certainly outdo the internet in 1994
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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: MRO to Vaclav on Sun Jan 28 2018 05:22 pm

you sure about that? pickings were kinda sparse and it took a lot of time to find something. a bbs with a good file area would certainly outdo the internet in 1994

I used to use BBSes for files a lot back in the 90s, but when I started to use the internet, I found that I could more easily find newer versions of the stuff I was looking for on the internet. It seemed that on a BBS, chances were a BBS wouldn't have the latest version of what I was looking for.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Nightfox to MRO on Sun Jan 28 2018 07:52 pm

I used to use BBSes for files a lot back in the 90s, but when I started to use the internet, I found that I could more easily find newer versions of the stuff I was looking for on the internet. It seemed that on a BBS, chances were a BBS wouldn't have the latest version of what I was looking for.

yeah but not having decent search engines and many companies not having a decent web presence still made bbses a viable place for files.
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I came back a few years ago because I missed the scene, the Usenet isn't much fun anymore, and the Internet at large is crap.

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived in a kind a syndicated form where web forum with link themselves using it.

I guess it will swing back in some for ( real interaction ) on the internet. I do hear people getting frustrated with the quality of the exchanges on
facebook and likes.

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Ennev wrote to Vaclav <=-

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived in a kind a syndicated form where web forum with link
themselves using it.

I wish web forums did link with Usenet too, I hate the forum interfaces, and would have accessed them via NNTP, if that was an option.

I guess it will swing back in some for ( real interaction ) on the internet. I do hear people getting frustrated with the quality of the exchanges on facebook and likes.

Facebook varies, there are some good groups, but like any medium, one has to pick and choose.


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MRO wrote to Vaclav <=-

I left the BBS scene in 1994, when I first got on the Internet. Software selection was much better than the couple of dozen local BBSes I called, and more immediate than waiting for Walnut Creek CDs in the mail :)

you sure about that? pickings were kinda sparse and it took a lot of
time to find something. a bbs with a good file area would certainly
outdo the internet in 1994

Not 100% to be honest, it's been 23+ years and I tend to romanticize things. Might have been 1995 by the time I got better at finding things on the net (word of mouth, lists of ftp sites, using archie and wais, etc).

As for BBSes with good file areas outdoing the internet of the time, I would tend to agree. In most cases they could cover a more diverse range of systems.
However, most of the boards I was on enforced rigid ratios, whereas I could download as much as I needed/wanted from most ftp sites.



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Ennev wrote to Vaclav <=-

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived in a kind a syndicated form where web forum with link
themselves using it.

I guess it will swing back in some for ( real interaction ) on the internet. I do hear people getting frustrated with the quality of the exchanges on facebook and likes.

I still visit daily, going through Eternal September and/or Albasani. There *is* some degree of intelligent discussion, but it's the exception, not the rule. Also hard to find.

I also use gwene.org and gmane.org to read RSS feeds and mailing lists in my newsreader, not perfect but handy.


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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Ennev to Vaclav on Mon Jan 29 2018 07:35 am

I came back a few years ago because I missed the scene, the Usenet isn't much fun anymore, and the Internet at large is crap.

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived

it's alive for binaries.
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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to MRO on Mon Jan 29 2018 06:39 pm

(word of mouth, lists of ftp sites, using archie and wais, etc).

As for BBSes with good file areas outdoing the internet of the time, I would tend to agree. In most cases they could cover a more diverse range of systems.
However, most of the boards I was on enforced rigid ratios, whereas I could download as much as I needed/wanted from most ftp sites.

i remember really digging with gopher to find files and also i had a few
ftp sites i used.
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MRO wrote to Vaclav <=-

i remember really digging with gopher to find files and also i had a
few ftp sites i used.

I hear that. Kids these days don't know how good they have it, with their Googles and Bings...



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MRO wrote to Ennev <=-

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived

it's alive for binaries.

It is indeed. I've toyed with the idea of subscribing to a news server with decent retention for a couple of years, one of these days I might finally give in and do it. Any personal recommendations?




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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to MRO on Tue Jan 30 2018 06:06 pm

I hear that. Kids these days don't know how good they have it, with their Googles and Bings...

I remember using Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and other search engines back in the 90s. There was also another one that combined search results from the other search engines - SavvySearch, I believe.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to MRO on Tue Jan 30 2018 06:06 pm

MRO wrote to Vaclav <=-

i remember really digging with gopher to find files and also i had a few ftp sites i used.

I hear that. Kids these days don't know how good they have it, with their Googles and Bings...

yeah i like bing. i keep getting amazon giftcards from bing.
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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to MRO on Tue Jan 30 2018 06:15 pm

MRO wrote to Ennev <=-

Yes, it really feel like Usenet is dead. Sad. I wish it would have survived

it's alive for binaries.

It is indeed. I've toyed with the idea of subscribing to a news server with decent retention for a couple of years, one of these days I might finally give in and do it. Any personal recommendations?

i use astraweb
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Nightfox wrote to Vaclav <=-

I remember using Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and other search engines back
in the 90s. There was also another one that combined search results
from the other search engines - SavvySearch, I believe.

Dogpile also combined results from other search engines.


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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Wed Jan 31 2018 02:38 pm

Nightfox wrote to Vaclav <=-

I remember using Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and other search engines back in the 90s. There was also another one that combined search results from the other search engines - SavvySearch, I believe.

Dogpile also combined results from other search engines.

90s is a pretty broad scope. we went from not having shit to having shit within the 90s.
i was using archie in the early 90s. then webcrawler and altavista. not sure what order.
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it's alive for binaries.

But for opinions and ideas not so much :-( that was my point.

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Nightfox to Vaclav on Tue Jan 30 2018 04:38 pm

I hear that. Kids these days don't know how good they have it, with
their Googles and Bings...

I remember using Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and other search engines back in the 90s. There was also another one that combined search results from the other search engines - SavvySearch, I believe.

At the time Lycos was my favorite. Who knew Google was going to own the whole darn thing??!

... If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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MRO wrote to Vaclav <=-

i use astraweb

Thanks, I'll give them a look.



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Ennev wrote to MRO <=-

it's alive for binaries.

But for opinions and ideas not so much :-( that was my point.

Depends on the group. Comp.misc usually has some discussion, same with some of the computer folklore groups. Most of the groups about newservers and newsreaders are populated by self-described "kooks". It's fun to watch what is essentially a Hundred Years' Flame War.



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Depends on the group. Comp.misc usually has some discussion, same with
some of the computer folklore groups. Most of the groups about newservers and newsreaders are populated by self-described "kooks". It's fun to watch what is essentially a Hundred Years' Flame War.

I'll have a look :-D

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MRO wrote to Vk3jed <=-

90s is a pretty broad scope. we went from not having shit to having
shit within the 90s.
i was using archie in the early 90s. then webcrawler and altavista. not sure what order.

I went from using nothing right at the start of the 90s to BBSs, then the Internet, where I used Archie and Gopher, yes I remember Webcrawler and Altavista, used Yahoo for a bit, and by that time, Google was getting a reputation for giving good results. This was also around the time Dogpile first appeared.

Gopher was really useful, once you got the hang of it.


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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to Ennev on Wed Jan 31 2018 06:28 pm

But for opinions and ideas not so much :-( that was my point.

Depends on the group. Comp.misc usually has some discussion, same with some of the computer folklore groups. Most of the groups about newservers and newsreaders are populated by self-described "kooks". It's fun to watch what is essentially a Hundred Years' Flame War.

I should probably add a few more. The newsgroups I carry on my BBS right now are mostly about beer brewing. I'll get a half dozen messages a week in one or two of them, and even sometimes that many in a day if a post is interesting.

DaiTengu

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: DaiTengu to Vaclav on Thu Feb 01 2018 23:48:31

Any pointers on getting rec.games.{go, empire,etc} to my bbs?

Marisa
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Any pointers on getting rec.games.{go, empire,etc} to my bbs?

If your system's public IP address does not change, I might be able to work
out something where you can pull from my news server (I am on a gigiabit fiber connection). Email me at robert.wolfe@robertwolfe.org if you are interested.



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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Robert Wolfe to MARISAG on Sat Feb 03 2018 01:13:00

fiber connection). Email me at robert.wolfe@robertwolfe.org if you are interested.

Sent you a mail - thx!

Marisa
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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Marisag to DaiTengu on Sat Feb 03 2018 04:03 am

Any pointers on getting rec.games.{go, empire,etc} to my bbs?

You need a remote newsfeed to start, one that you can post to wouldn't hurt, if you plan on participating in discussions. I have a subscription to supernews, which is about $10 a month, and is really designed for downloading binaries.

from there, Synchronet's Newslink setup instructions can be found here: http://wiki.synchro.net/module:newslink?s[]=newslink

DaiTengu

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: Vaclav to Ennev on Mon Jan 29 2018 06:49 pm

I still visit daily, going through Eternal September and/or Albasani. There *is* some degree of intelligent discussion, but it's the exception, not the rule. Also hard to find.

I want to set up a rule to auto-delete any cross-posted message and any non-english codepages - I figure that'll get rid of most of the SPAM.

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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: DaiTengu to Marisag on Thu Feb 08 2018 11:55:25

Yep, i got a feed and now my bbs is pulling/pushing to a dozen or so newsgroups :)

Marisa
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Nightfox wrote to Vaclav <=-

I remember using Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and other search engines back
in the 90s. There was also another one that combined search results
from the other search engines - SavvySearch, I believe.

I think it was metafilter that showed the search strings that other people
were looking for. That was interesting.

There's a twitter account called "Riker Googling" that's a list of search strings Commmander Riker would look for.

"How to give a tribble a pill"
"Holodeck streaming taking up all my subspace data"
"Clean Dilithium"
"How to escape a time loop how to escape a time loop how to escape..."
"Do tide pods feel pain when you eat them"
"What happens in a federation shutdown"
"How to replace tricorder battery"
"tricorder slow after TRIos update"
"Stormy Daniels"




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HusTler wrote to Nightfox <=-

At the time Lycos was my favorite. Who knew Google was going to own the whole darn thing??!

I found an audiobook version of Douglas Coupland's "Into the Plex". Great description of the early days, and why they succeeded over the others.

It could have been Yahoo. It easily could have been them.



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Re: Re: Forsaken
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Feb 10 2018 08:28 am

There's a twitter account called "Riker Googling" that's a list of search strings Commmander Riker would look for.

"Holodeck streaming taking up all my subspace data"
"Clean Dilithium"
"How to escape a time loop how to escape a time loop how to escape..." "What happens in a federation shutdown"
"How to replace tricorder battery"
"tricorder slow after TRIos update"

haha.. :)

Nightfox

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