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BBS Links Database Back Online

Posted by Hemos on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

leviathan writes "After being down for almost a year, the original BBS Links Database is back in action. Started back in 1999, almost a third of the original entries have been pruned out, and others are in dire need of updating. If you run a BBS related web site, please help us out by adding it to the database, or updating your existing entries."

11 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. FINALLY by Uhh_Duh · · Score: 5, Funny


    So.. we can track down the people we used to talk to in the days when we had no life and compare TradeWars scores. This service in invaluable! :)

    Except they don't list my old l33t undergr0und BBS I used to run with information on how to build a beige box.

    Ah.. the days when I was young an innocent.

    Forgive the nostalgia. :)

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    1. Re:FINALLY by sirinek · · Score: 3, Funny

      "BSDs are dead"?

      Was that a freudian slip? :)

      siri

  2. Database record count by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now stands at 8 BBS's. Sadly, two of those will be closing at the end of the year.

  3. Now I can sit around... by craenor · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and pretend I'm old school l33t.

  4. Great, a BBS List! by Tsar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've still got 2.5 megabytes of download credit to use up on Rusty & Edie's, but for some reason the phone number doesn't work any more.

  5. Hee yeah... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    So there I was saying to myself "Self, don't you find the gig fiber to work and the cable modem at home too fast?" and I replied "Yup. Sure do, how I long for the Olde Days." so I said to myself "Self, dust off that old Prometheus 1200 baud modem, hook it into the Apple ][+ and relax for a bit. Enjoy life at a slower pace when the hectic rush of modern life was unheard of." so I did.

    Then I downloaded some ASCII pr0n and said "Self, are you out of your fucking mind?"

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  6. 16 Colour Pr0n! by Myriad · · Score: 3, Funny
    I've still got 2.5 megabytes of download credit to use up on Rusty & Edie's, but for some reason the phone number doesn't work any more.

    Aaaaagh EGA pr0n! Mine eyes!

    CGA was even worse though... nothing living - that anyone would want to get near - should ever take on that particular shade of magenta... or cyan.

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  7. not /.ed yet... by dirvish · · Score: 5, Funny

    They bring it back up after a year and now /. is trying to hose it on its first day back.

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  8. Hmmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now where did I put that copy of Oblivion? or better yet.....VBBS....

  9. Wow! by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    These BBS things sound cool as hell!
    Ummmm....
    How do I switch my cable modem to "dial up" mode?

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  10. Re:And don't forget to visit BBSmates.com by cscx · · Score: 4, Funny

    he's on a 144k DSL line.. be nice" :)

    I've always loved thinking about how people might approach that. "Maybe if I click the link really slowly..."