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Best BBS Memories?
TerryAtWork asks: "What are Slashdot readers' best BBS memories? The BBS ruled before the common man got on the Internet and a lot of older Slashdot reader's first on-line experiences were with them."
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My dad's password was a little too easy to guess.
"Derp de derp."
Finding out they existed.
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Sorting out a UUCP newsfeed (back when internet access meant having a dialup shell..), mostly so I could get the alt.binaries groups and have the best pr0n collection in the region.
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Great cybersex, and of course I nailed a few (cute, by the way) girls on a local BBS. BBS's ruled. It was exciting just getting my computer connected to other people, sure, but the sex owned.
Uh, dude... Violet wasn't real...
Opportunity knocks. Karma hunts you down.
I'm recalling a BBS from around 1981 or so, called "Ski's Lodge". It was run on an Apple ][ with a Novation 1200 baud modem. The sysop was called either Ski Patrol or Speeka Troll, I don't quite recall perfectly.
The ski resort motif was complete enough that whenever the BBS program encounted a software error, it would say "AVALANCH" and dump you off line.
Across town there was Worm-O-Net. This was run on a Commodore 64 with a very common and very bad Commodore 64 BBS program (something even worse than C-Net). They did NOT have Auto Answer. Run by the Worm family, you connected to it by dialing the number with the modem. On the other end, little Tina Worm would answer the phone, see if she heard a screech, and then turn on the BBS software.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I was a 13yr old snot nosed kid and had gotten myself into a flamewar on a local BBS using several obsenities during the course of the thread. Well the sysop didn't fancy that kind of language polluting his board so he took it upon himself to call the house leaving a nasty message on the answering machine, which my mother picked up ... very embarrassing. Right there and then I learned never to use my real demographics when on-line.
Sorry.
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Dad to me: How the heck could you spend $400 in long distance last month?!
Me to dad: Don't worry, I got about $1000 worth of free software.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Thank God Zmodem came along...
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
Me to wife: How the heck could you spend $400 on clothes?
Wife to me: Don't worry, I got about $1000 worth.