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The "Find Your Old BBS Buddies" Database
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.
This guy probably hasn't been outside Texas
Certainly not to Europe, where bombings are just a normal part of everyday life. "Look Marge, another van just blew up killing 20 innocent bystanders! Pass me the crumpets please".
Whad'ya expect from a land that kissed Hitler's ass untill the US had to go over there and save their butts once again.
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Funny though... most of what the BBS's were about are still around here on the net.. your mailing list for your LUG or other group, and slashdot it's self in essence is nothing more than a PBBS forums board with topics thrown out by the board masters.
the biggest thing I miss most is tradewars.. Yeah you can download it and play it now, but it meant more and made the game more when you not only had your limited turns that day but you were sucking down your precious last few minutes alloted on that board for that day. Couple that with the fact that you knew that most of the players were within a 20 mile radius of you and it really got exciting... your friends were players so you could yack about it at school.
I dont miss 300bps, 1200bps or even the rich kid 2400bps modem days... It was horrible.
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I find it amazing that Europeans can muster so much blind hatred (or is it jealosy?) for Americans. Being Canadian myself, I'm not exactly a huge fan of the US, but these sort of remarks are simply intolerable. How is a terrorist act perpetrated by wealthy Saudi engineers and backed by a Saudi multi-millionaire whose stated purpose it is to establish an Islamic world order an act of "revenge" exactly? Enlighten me please. What, are you equating the cold-blooded murder of thousands of innocents with misguided support for the Contras or something? If I hear another one of those "root-causes" arguments I'm going to puke. Do you have any idea what sort of activities the British were engaged in while _they_ were in a similar position of power (the Sepoy rebellion comes to mind)? Anything the Americans ever did pales by comparison. So they occasionally meddle in world affairs; it's not like they're the first (or the last, for that matter). Nothing, NOTHING justifies the horror of September 11th, and standing idly by is the last thing you want to do. Or perhaps we should just sign a peace accord with Osama...like the one Chamberlain signed with Hitler.