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Originally posted by Hell Puppy
Yeah, my first connections to the internet were UUCP for email and newsgroups sucked down from university providers. Took a real uberGeek to set it up those days. I had a hacked up version of Waffle sitting on my BBS drives, using a DOS version of UUCICO to fetch the mail every hour or so... And another utility to convert out of those nasty formats into the BBS message base.
I still kick my own ass daily for not getting more domains back then. At the time, it cost absolutely nothing to register them. The trick was finding someone who was willing and able to provide DNS...
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10 meg Rodime MFM hard drive and 4.77 smoking mhz all powered on a IBM PC Portable connected courtesy of Uncle Dennis and a 1200 baud Hayes smart modem. Using hijacked analog line hidden in the bowels of Scientific Atlanta running that free version of RBBS. Now thats how you start a BBS called GonZoland.
Who'd a thunk that in 1985 Id been using that fucked up waffle client and a unix to unix copy plus Ed Hoppers message tosser to be crosslinking usenet areas int0 fucking BBS message conferences --jamming up my own mailing lists and then cross echoing all the shit via FidoNet and TomCat to talk to the people running Wildpussy. That damn PCBoard was one solid mother fucker till they went to OS2.
ANd they thought I had lost my fucking mind when I registered gonzo.com back in 1993.
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