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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. 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
  4. 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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