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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. This is too good by jchawk · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the site -

    "PLEASE NOTE: I am currently in the process of switching servers. If you notice anything funny, please email me."

    I think something funny is going on.

  2. R337 L337 K3WL by MuMart · · Score: 4, Funny
    With "cool" aliases like Lord Nikon and Zer0 C00l
    Oh no, Hemos just watched "Hackers".

    Bleurgh!

  3. Re:BBS outside the USA by irma+trattino · · Score: 2, Funny

    and you can bet that if we create that sort of site outside the USA, they will get on our nerves untill we also accept the US. =)

    i don't wanna know anything about that, i will only accept people from my hometown! ;P

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    irma trattino
    eat.me at http://irmetta.free.fr
  4. Future .. by BESTouff · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a related note, MSN will have a board titled "find you old Slashdot buddies" ...

  5. So slow by rat7307 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, this site is as fast as my old 1200 baud days....

    or my old 300 Baud.....actually, i think semaphore would be quicker than this site right now..

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    Burma?
  6. Ahh... the good ol' days by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a nice trip down memory lane. Sitting at home with a Apple //e, a 300 baud Hayes modem (It was important to remind people that it was a genuine Hayes), and a big gulp from 7-11 autodialing a half dozen BBSs trying to get in.

    In certian respects, the golden age of BBSs was better then today's Internet. For example, no logging on at 3.30 in the morning only to find 20+ posts by clueless Europeans bitching about how some website didn't include them.

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    The Internet is generally stupid
  7. Re:BBS outside the USA by EvilAlien · · Score: 3, Funny
    I thought the way it went was Europe and Canada finally got over their inertia and apathy to beat Hitler back, meanwhile the US did nothing until they got brutally spanked by the tiny island nation of Japan, then went on a tear in the Pacific against the forces of the aforementioned tiny island nation?

    Anyways... enough history. There is something somewhat scary about the thought of hooking up with old BBS denizens. I don't know about you guys, but the BBSes I used to frequent were 10% geek, 5% relatively welladjusted but non-techie people, and 85% freak. I didn't go to "geek meets" then, and I certainly don't want to see what the passage of time has done to people who were barely human 10 years ago. Its not worth the risk, I don't want to get bitten or licked or see anyone in a Pulp Fiction Gimp outfit.

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    perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
  8. Looking for Sysop ;) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, I'm looking for a guy I used to know. He went by the nick of "Sysop". I never figured out what that meant. Does anyone here know him ? ;-)