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Remembering the BBS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-day dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Nice reminiscence about BBS's, back in the day and all. Author describes them as "Where a teenage loser could lose himself", which for me would have been pretty accurate. I still miss being able to find cool ASCII graphics, text-based RPG's, and the Anarchist's Cookbook all in one place."

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  1. ANSI archive sites? by antdude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Speaking of BBS' (fun days!), does anyone know if there are Web sites that keep ANSI art archives (with search engines)? I am trying to find cool ANSI arts that I used to love. I even drew a few (not that great) I regret not keeping them. I miss them. :(

    Thanks in advance. :)

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  2. Flashbacks by KFury · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Flashbacks of:
    • ANSI animations
    • 300 baud connections even a 14-year-old could outtype
    • when it was still called 'Elite'
    • Telebit 2500 was the coolest thing in the world
    • until the HST Dual Standard
    • Making a 1-line Hermes board on my mom's fax line in the off hours
    • and getting people calling all night
    • The guy with the spare VAX and a 16-line BBS was tha coolest pimp in tha Valley.

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  3. WWIV ... still up and running ... by ProfMoriarty · · Score: 3, Interesting
    WWIV has been around for many years now ... and it's still up and running over at Eagle's Dare BBS

    The latest software, v4.30, combined with fossil drivers for Windows (new in v4.30), and with a virtual com port software (COM/IP) ... creates an online BBS, that can be accessed like a website ...

    Please note that I currently don't have a board up ... since I don't have 24/7 access ... yet.

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  4. ah fare thee well by llamalicious · · Score: 3, Interesting

    my good friend TheDraw !

  5. Finding those people... by singularity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was very active on several BBSs in the 502 area code (Louisville, KY). I had some SysOp privs on some of the boards and even had access to a FidoNet feed. My handle was "Merlyn" (once I got on the Internet, someone was already using that on IRC, so I had to change it - thus my Slashdot user ID of "Singularity" with UID #2031)

    Once a month (first Saturday of the month) we would have a physical meeting (called "The Meat") at a local mall.

    I remember being envied for my 2400 baud modem hooked up to my Apple //gs.

    This was about 1991-1993 or so.

    I have not talked with any of those people since. Is there any website devoted to reuniting (as it was) any people from these boards?

    I did a simple search a few months ago, and foud a few dead message boards dedicated to boards that were mainly out in the Bay Area, but nothing more than that.

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