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  1. I wonder if it'll reduce area code proliferation by elwinc · · Score: 1 · on What Has Number Portability Done For You?
    I wonder if number portability will have any influence on area code proliferation. Sound crazy? Each telephone company offering service in each billing area used to get at least 1 exchange (10,000 numbers). The competition laws made it pretty easy to start your own phone company, which meant that lots of new exchanges got issued. Companies began hoarding exchanges, leading to proliferation.

    One fix was to allocate 1000 phone number blocks instead of 10000 number blocks. With number portability, they all have to share exchanges anyway, so maybe there's less incentive to hoard numbers?

  2. Re:So, what's the deal with the numbers? by mattOzan · · Score: 1 · on Review: 'Bubba Ho-Tep'
    Yes, if you go to the Bubba Ho-tep website and click on Elvis' right eyeglasses lens (requires Flash), you are shown this number:

    31 02283 665

    Which can be "decoded" into the following U.S. telephone number: (310) 228-3665

    (am I now in violation of the DMCA for cracking this encryption scheme?)

    This phone number traces to Beverley Hills, CA.

    Call it (on your own dime) and listen to The King's answering machine...

  3. Re:For god sakes dont forget the BBSes by aarondyck · · Score: 1 · on A Brief History of the Internet

    And with the start of the Internet, BBSes had a new venue for giving you their numbers...of course, by that time the BBSes were becoming obsolete...now all you can find is the listings for internet providers. Still useful, but not nearly as cool.

  4. (whimper) by fm6 · · Score: -1, Troll · on Electric Car Sighted on Highway - Who Makes It?
    Now we're playing trivia games? Cliff, are you aware that this is Slashdot, not a Fidonet node?

    Yeah, I know, I can filter out Cliff or Ask Slashdot (basically the same thing). But there are people out there who ask interesting questions. Just not as many as Cliff thinks there are.

  5. Legend of the Red Dragon, BBS Links - repost by DrZimp · · Score: 3, Insightful · on BBS Documentary Starting To Film

    Lord's still around.. http://lord.lordlegacy.org .. Being ported to Win32 w/ door32, OS/2, and Linux. (some people might ask "why os2?" its easy for me to do win32 and os2 versions. change compile target, recompile, poof. done.) A telnet server and web version are both planned as well.

    Seth Able, the original author, got burned out on bbs coding.. Sold all of his software (Lord, Lord2, Teos, and TLord) to Metropolis.. They had the games for a good 2 years before allowing me to work on them.. This next June will make 3 years that Ive been working on them.

    Want to see what the games like nowadays? telnet://bbs.lordlegacy.org .. Make sure to use a good telnet client, such as Mtelnet..

    BBS's, while not as popular as they once were, are still going pretty strong. With telnet helping out, theyre making a good come back. Check out Synchronet, EleBBS, or Mystic for good telnet softwares.

    Maybe looking for bbs chat? Grab an IRC client and go to irc.lordlegacy.org or irc.thebbs.org in #bbs

    Looking for a list of boards? TheDirectory has a telnet list and a dialup list.

    Looking for the bbs files? TheBBS's Archives is huge.

    Looking for some good links? Sysops Corner has them

  6. Many BBS's are still around on Telnet by almightyjustin · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Documentary About Bulletin Board Systems

    There's still a number of BBS's around, they've just moved to Telnet. Check out http://www.thedirectory.org/ for a listing...

  7. What??? BBS' are dead? by RealMrMike · · Score: 1 · on Every BBS That Ever Was

    What??? They're dead... ??? Damn, I wish someone would tell me so I would take down http://bbs.2bit.net || telnet://bbs.2bit.net

    I'll have to tell my handful of "callers" to stop playing LORD and Tradewars and BRE then.

    For a BBS near you checkout: http://www.thedirectory.org/telnet/

  8. Wow this post brings back memories.. (NirvanaNet) by Axemaster · · Score: 1 · on Every BBS That Ever Was

    I hadn't thought about it for a long time, but back when I was a kid, and was all over the BBS scene, I used to enjoy time on The Dojo. It's since passed away, though they seem to think his website is here, I think they're wrong.. doesn't seem like the old SysOp's style to me. Anyway, the most remarkable thing about being on The Dojo was the NirvanaNet FidoNet-style feed, which was headed up by a few boards, including &TotSE (The Order of the Screaming Electron). Sometimes I miss those BBS days; the web seems to have become more impersonal as it's progressed.. or maybe I'm just getting more cynical. All the same, BBS's were great fun :)

  9. BBSs Glory... by Pollux · · Score: 1 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

    I was an avid BBSer four years ago. Heck, back when I first got a computer and learned about BBSs, I would get up at 4AM in the morning, turn on the computer, hope the churning of my 5 1/4" floppy drive and the modem dial-up noise wouldn't wake my mom, and go online.

    Five years ago, our city had about 30 BBSs (and countless other "kiddie" ones that were run by 13 and 14 year olds at night when their mommies let them have the phone). About three and a half years ago, when the internet just started to kick in (when Netscape released v2.02), we were down to about 8 BBSs. Two years ago, our last three BBSs (two of the three at that point had been up for 8+ years) merged into one.

    That last BBS, WestPole, is now down to four active local users and four active telnet users. The only way it's survived was by opening the BBS to Telnetters. Our sysop (alas, another term that's nearly died with the times), living about 1500 miles away from where the BBS box is, manages it remotely through Linux (another way it's survived...he only resets it once a year for maintinence).

    BBSs as we know them from the past (1200/2400 baud modem & a dial up connection) are dead. I've been telnetting around, and have not found a single BBS that only has dial-up connections. But there are still a good number of telnet BBSs that have survived. You can find a hefty listing of them here.

    Although I'm saddened by the fact that the "locality" of BBSs has died, they still have been able to maintain their sense of community, although you now need an internet connection to use them...kinda ironic that the internet, which destroyed BBSing, is the thing which still allows BBSing to survive.

  10. BBSs, MUDs, and Freenets, Oh My! by grahamkg · · Score: 3 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

    Here's a link to the latest telnet bbs list:

    http://www.thedirectory.org/telnet

    It lists around 600 or so, and is updated every month. For muds, see

    http://www.mudconnect.com/

    Freenets, which do seem to be dying, are listed here:

    http://www.lights.com/freenet/

    What's really funny is that people are posting about BBSs and trying to keep others away from them. Hmmm...

    Graham