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BBS Links Database Back Online
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."
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.
-- People who hate Windows use Linux. People who love UNIX use BSD.
...and pretend I'm old school l33t.
Could someone please explain what BBSes are used for now, in 2002? The Internet does a great job for warez and pr0ns of all sorts.
Note to moderators: I'm not trolling, or being offtopic, or being flamebait. This can be a legit discussion.
To hook up with your old friends from BBSing days. I only wish a few of mine would show up. Sigh... Underworld Network Hawaii, where are you?
Be nice, he's using IIS
vs the september that never ended, when AOL first gave internet access.
even in a large forum, most of the key players only number in the large handfuls.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
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.
Message areas are not only availible through QWK packets (can be downloaded via FTP as well) but also through NNTP, and Gopher.
Everyone loves door games as well, and there are many Leages (Inter-BBS) that still run games such as BRE, Falcon's Eye, Arrowbridge, and more.
So, to all of you who think the BBS got left in the dust with the Modem, think again! :)
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?"
Trolling is a art,
1. Nostalgia
You ever want to play old door games, and hang out in an even tinier, community, just for old time sake? Send emails in a closed system, make postings that only make sense to members? Then a telnet BBS is the place for you to hang out.
2. Cool factor
Cause it sounds so much more attractive (IMHO) than blog.
3. Privacy
The chances of an honest to goodness dial up BBS adds a bit of privacy to every posting and conversation.
4. Community
This is sort of the same, or at least touched on in the first post. We have it here, but not quite so cohesive. BBS's (and now a days blogs) offer like minded people a place to go to share, socialize, and feel welcome.
I have several friends, that even in the day of Everquest and UO continually play MUDs for many of the reasons I have outlined.
OB/2 all the way babeee YEHHHH!!!
at least you were advocating WWiV or telegard...
... hi bingo
There are actually quite a few VERY active BBS's around the net that have more than enough activity to keep you busy into the wee hours! Fidonet is still alive as it seems. The problem is there is alot of telnet based boards that have ZER0 activity. A cool homegrown BBS to check out is at telnet://toga.cx if you want an example of current BBS development in progress!
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.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
They bring it back up after a year and now /. is trying to hose it on its first day back.
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
These BBS things sound cool as hell!
Ummmm....
How do I switch my cable modem to "dial up" mode?
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
but some how saying
Started BACK in 1999 makes it sound like
Started BACK in 1899.
Guys get a perspective of Time.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
You know, with Der Department auf Homeland Sekurity and the Pentagon sniffing around the Net, maybe it's time to revive the dialup BBS. Not that dialups are inherently more secure, but they're not so much on the radar.
I remember reading an article some years ago--maybe it was in the book MEGATRENDS--speculating that the time would come when the Internet would be too crowded or too dangerous in the future. I sorta brushed-off the idea. The author went on to say he thought like-minded folks would form stand-alone network "guilds" to afford a more secure computing environment.
Maybe privacy will push some of us in that direction. It would be funny to see a new generation of BBS operators springing up here and there.
I wonder what new hardware and programs might come of it?
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
BBSing is alive and well for door games.
I make a Tradewars2002 helper for java.
Its even open source!
Go to www.j-twat.com to check it out, or to the sourceforge page here
I used to run a small BBS in Kansas City and remember the time the nodelist got so large it broke the automated nodediff tosser virtually everyone used.
/. 2 years ago about the maintainer of that list stopping ?)
.. but still kept on working... (The sysop had not logged into the system in 1 1/2 years)
.. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
More to the point, if you look at the zone file you'll notice that a majority of the activity is outside the old major activity zones (1-6)
Turns out that places like various countries in Africa and Russia are thriving using the old fido mailer programs.
Who'd have guessed that there would still be a market and place for a store and forward mailing and discussion list for nodes that only connect to the network once a day or less.
Sounds an awful lot like usenet back in the day when UUCP transmisions between sites was a common way to transfer stuff and there was actually a maintained uunet list. (wasn't there something on
Last year when I logged onto a fido BBS, most of his mail read year 1901
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections
I once spent ~12 hours straight one night logging into this one BBS, creating a new login, and using my lmiited temp login download credit to download softcore pr0n jpegs one by one over 2400 baud modem.
Now I can leech full Porn DVD's over cable. Isn't technology grand?
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.