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The "Find Your Old BBS Buddies" Database

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-'em-and-look-'em-up dept.

sloop writes "Everyone wonders what happened to the old geeks we used to see on the local bulletin boards. With "cool" aliases like Lord Nikon and Zer0 C00l they often can't be found in a phone book. Enter BBSmates, a database of most every published BBS. You can associate yourself with BBS's you were on and find other users." Or you can go on to found a website with one of 'em.

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  1. BBS outside the USA by damieng · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Once again it is assumed that nothing happened outside the USA.

    Believe it or not there were, and still are, plenty of BBS's out here.

    Before you say "well add it" - the site requires USA area codes...

    Sigh.

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    1. Re:BBS outside the USA by Theodore+Logan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Read the caption below the little ribbon in the upper right corner: "What our enemies have begun, we will finish. 9.11.01".

      This guy probably hasn't been outside Texas.

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    2. Re:BBS outside the USA by AftanGustur · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      This guy probably hasn't been outside Texas.

      True, american's don't realise that this was a *revenge* attack on 911-01 ?

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  2. Nothing outside the US? by byolinux · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There goes my interest in the site then...

    Hopefully he'll get some UK content sometime soon.

    Still a great concept, similar to FriendsReunited.co.uk in the UK, but aimed at geeks.

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  3. Not from Europe :-( by the+cleaner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Damn, its US-centric again. I was so happy when I first read this.

    Ok, somebody create a site to get the guys from europe back together.

    Oh, please dont mention it on slashdot, or it may be getting crowded in there...

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