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  • Category: Cyberculture
  • Founded: Nov 28, 2000
  • Language: English
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I interviewed Josh Sklar on my run through New York City a week ago, after we'd gone back and forth in e-mail for nearly a half-year. He'd been in the Austin...
2 Oct 21, 2002
11:13 pm

Chris Funk
ubbnewbie
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Just got an email back from the Phrack staff in essence saying thanks for asking members of the 80sbbs list to come join their private "Knights" list. The...
2 Oct 21, 2002
1:43 pm

zard0z1
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the 80sBBS group. File : /Bbsfwa.txt ...
4 Oct 16, 2002
8:35 am

80sBBS@yahoogroups.com
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Hello, I am searching for a collection of really bad text files from the group Psycho Pot-Heads with Boners (aka PPwB) (also misspelled as PYSCHO POT-HEADS...
2 Oct 10, 2002
8:03 pm

KSyster@...
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Totally. I would *love* to have a copy of GBBS Pro again, it's the first BBS system I ran (It was really a BBS scripting language... you could change the...
1 Oct 8, 2002
10:11 am

The_Doctor
neddieseagoo...
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I can't wait for you to do that. There is some obscure old Shareware I have been looking for, and I just bet they are on one of those disks. <DEMAND> When do...
3 Oct 7, 2002
9:35 pm

Gene Buckle
tspec2k
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Yea - this is exciting for me too.. There are several bbs softwares that I had way back in the day that I would like to find.. Jason - you may want to add...
1 Oct 7, 2002
12:57 pm

Mark Williams
pla972
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Well, my trusty Windows 95 box finally took a nice hit and ended up imploding, which threw everything back a week while I went and ordered new parts. Now I'm...
3 Oct 4, 2002
10:22 pm

textfilesdotcom
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Anyone from the St. Louis metro area? Im looking to get a good list of BBs's from the 618 area code..Im also looking for some old text files I wrote in the...
1 Oct 4, 2002
1:33 pm

zard0z1
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This might be of interest to those of you that like reading textfiles about the bizarre. Some of you may already know about it. "Beyond the Illusion" bbs still...
3 Sep 17, 2002
10:40 pm

T. B.
krell1215
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Jason, You haven't found an email address for him, have you? Thanks, Mark -- ... http://retrobbs.org http://bbs.yagni.com ... "There&#39;s your answer, fishbulb" ...
1 Sep 17, 2002
2:27 pm

The_Doctor
neddieseagoo...
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In a message dated 4/1/02 4:56:20 PM Central Standard Time, ... It appears that Mustang Software may have had both Qmodem and Colossus, but that John Friel...
24 Sep 16, 2002
9:53 am

textfilesdotcom
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Well... Lets see. 1) Being on a network is good advertising. Every message from my system goes out with a tagline with my BBS name and address on it. 2) I...
35 Sep 14, 2002
9:17 pm

KSyster@...
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Good Afternoon, I don't know about everybody here, but I'd sure like to get a quick update on Jason's documentary progress. Being a part of some of the more...
3 Sep 13, 2002
11:39 pm

Bryan C.
bryan_rip
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Gene Buckle <geneb@...> wrote .. ... Gene, I thought the Humilitron had gotten an Italian tune-up just last month. Or maybe it should have been set...
2 Sep 12, 2002
8:17 pm

Gene Buckle
tspec2k
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The Cult of the Dead Cow started around the Lubbock, TX area between three teenagers who were in local BBSes: Swamp Rat, Franken Gibe, and Sid Vicious....
1 Sep 9, 2002
6:34 pm

textfilesdotcom
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I'm heading to Washington, DC this weekend to interview Vinton Cerf. Any other of you folks I should be meeting/greeting while down there? I'm coming in...
4 Sep 9, 2002
12:00 pm

Jeff Mitchell
coogfoo
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... Now that kicks azz :) Cerf must have some pretty interesting things to share, I'm looking forward to reading this one. Are you going to knock on RMS's...
2 Sep 9, 2002
11:51 am

KSyster@...
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I first started BBS'ing as a user in 1984 with a Commodore 64. I remember when downloading a game at 300 baud took days. Then when 2400 came out, it was like...
5 Sep 4, 2002
4:02 pm

Cute Skunk
foxelfgrrl
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What was the name of that DOS BBS program that was all graphical? I remember downloading it and trying it. It was a bear to set up and you had to use their...
4 Sep 4, 2002
4:02 pm

Cute Skunk
foxelfgrrl
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hey guys , anyone know of any kewl apple II telnets? tried searching the net , but didnt find much , I am sure somebody out there has a telnet that...
3 Sep 4, 2002
6:53 am

Patrick
fixingslots2002
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Heh. I used to run GBBS Pro, on an Apple ][+ with a 300 baud modem. And people used to call it. Lots of people. Wow. The GBBS Pro software was really a...
1 Sep 3, 2002
7:06 am

The_Doctor
neddieseagoo...
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Remember the KeWl BBS's for Apple? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % %...
2 Sep 3, 2002
12:47 am

MOD
lmodllmodllmodl
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I wrote a one year summary of the work so far on the documentary: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/oneyear I got slashdotted as a result: ...
1 Sep 1, 2002
9:19 pm

textfilesdotcom
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Hi, I just subscribed, but I havn't read through the archives yet on yahoogroups (ugh I hate web interfaces for that kinda of stuff)... Anyway I started off...
3 Aug 31, 2002
5:52 am

textfilesdotcom
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Hi. I've been wrestling for years with the idea of setting up my old BBS system again on a Telnet connection, mainly to show the younger generation how it used...
2 Aug 30, 2002
9:12 pm

MOD
lmodllmodllmodl
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... Sure. I'm happy to talk about that. What *do* you think is worth saving? ... I hope you're right about that. I want to try to bring the scene back. I...
6 Aug 24, 2002
9:23 pm

Digital Avatar
davatar707
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I'm honestly surprised that anyone pays any attention to any message with the words 'Digital Avatar' in it, but I'll leave it at that. Several folks did get...
4 Aug 24, 2002
3:56 am

Digital Avatar
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1 Aug 23, 2002
7:55 am

rick dell
sccdu
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Just an FYI - I'll be going out of town until August 30th, so I won't be here to do any moderating or anything like that. I've turned off moderation for new...
1 Aug 21, 2002
1:32 am

Quag7
jcentury
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