I dabbled in warez a bit. A couple of my boards were warez boards but another sysop in my area got a visit from the RCMP so I decided to stop that.
I had three art boards. Shivakio, Shivakio/2 and Shivakio/3. I remember the pride I had because I had ansi menus done by some people in iCE and Dark (among some others). I still have my last BBS archived somewhere, with some of my Shiv/2 ansis. The boards all had different feels because each ran different software.
For laughs I googled for some of the ansi packs I was in. I found a lot of them. Turns out someone archives them. Have a look sometime.:)
My first BBS was a close to stock Renegade system that could only be up during evening hours (10pm to 7am I think), because I only had one line to use. I remember someone paged me (I hadn't shut that feature off) and I got in a lot of trouble with my parents.
I ran quite a few systems after that. Some Renegade, one was Oblivion/2 and another Iniquity. They went down for quite a few reasons too.. one went down because a user got me to run a modified version of f-prot virus scanner that screwed my MBR.. and I didn't know about fdisk/mbr then..
My favorite part of BBSing was the art scene.. with all of the ansi groups like iCE and ACiD.. I was even in a couple of them, euphoria and SEPTiC.. the only more well known one I was a part of was Dark Illustrated. But it was a great time having all of the art packs in the file bases, and the messages full of flame wars and I had some message nets to some places where the scene was big (416/905 was big in Canada).
There were some really exceptional artists.. and I have a lot of really good memories.
A lot of them are still around today. But it's much different now. I was writing my own BBS software near the end of the age. In fact, if I remember correctly, my last BBS (called Oxide) was the last in my area code of 519. It wasn't art.. in fact the file bases were never really used. I had 10's of thousands of messages, mostly flames and fart jokes but it was good all the same.
And since a lot of people speak of how old some of their equipment was.. I started with a 2400 baud modem, worked a paper route to afford a 14.4.. and then got a 33.6 when they were new technology. That lasted many years until I bought a US Robotics 56k for Oxide.. dunno where it is now though..:)
In fact, I remember when I first realized that:) was a smiley face.:)
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I dabbled in warez a bit. A couple of my boards were warez boards but another sysop in my area got a visit from the RCMP so I decided to stop that.
I had three art boards. Shivakio, Shivakio/2 and Shivakio/3. I remember the pride I had because I had ansi menus done by some people in iCE and Dark (among some others). I still have my last BBS archived somewhere, with some of my Shiv/2 ansis. The boards all had different feels because each ran different software.
For laughs I googled for some of the ansi packs I was in. I found a lot of them. Turns out someone archives them. Have a look sometime. :)
My first BBS was a close to stock Renegade system that could only be up during evening hours (10pm to 7am I think), because I only had one line to use. I remember someone paged me (I hadn't shut that feature off) and I got in a lot of trouble with my parents.
I ran quite a few systems after that. Some Renegade, one was Oblivion/2 and another Iniquity. They went down for quite a few reasons too.. one went down because a user got me to run a modified version of f-prot virus scanner that screwed my MBR.. and I didn't know about fdisk /mbr then..
My favorite part of BBSing was the art scene.. with all of the ansi groups like iCE and ACiD.. I was even in a couple of them, euphoria and SEPTiC.. the only more well known one I was a part of was Dark Illustrated. But it was a great time having all of the art packs in the file bases, and the messages full of flame wars and I had some message nets to some places where the scene was big (416/905 was big in Canada).
There were some really exceptional artists.. and I have a lot of really good memories.
A lot of them are still around today. But it's much different now. I was writing my own BBS software near the end of the age. In fact, if I remember correctly, my last BBS (called Oxide) was the last in my area code of 519. It wasn't art.. in fact the file bases were never really used. I had 10's of thousands of messages, mostly flames and fart jokes but it was good all the same.
And since a lot of people speak of how old some of their equipment was.. I started with a 2400 baud modem, worked a paper route to afford a 14.4.. and then got a 33.6 when they were new technology. That lasted many years until I bought a US Robotics 56k for Oxide.. dunno where it is now though.. :)
In fact, I remember when I first realized that :) was a smiley face. :)
Have a good one.