I was one back in the late 1980's when
I ran my own Commodore 64 BBS from my parents
telephone from 10pm to 7am!
Those were the days..
For those who don't know (newbies ), SYSOP was the original
name before the Internet = WEBMASTER
So, SYSOP = WEBMASTER!
(system operator)
Fuck man ... me and my brother used to sit on the BBS sites and try to figure out how to hack into our school to change our grades... LOL .. fuck those were the days .. LOL
Originally posted by chAos Fuck man ... me and my brother used to sit on the BBS sites and try to figure out how to hack into our school to change our grades... LOL .. fuck those were the days .. LOL
Watched WarGames one too many times, eh?
"HELLO ... DOCTOR.... FALKEN.... SHALL ..WE.. PLAY.. A .. GAME?"
And I remember when I found the Liquid Sky BBS and how great it was to have an all over 18 board to play on. LOL...all of this makes me feel waaaaaay old
Indeed. But you know what, at the end of the day, that was still cool stuff at the time.
Everything is relative.
Intel announced recently by 2007 the CPU's in PC's will be running at 20 Gigahertz, about 7 time's today's fastest ones.
Imagine in the year 3,000 our descendents will be laughing at us saying can you believe all these geeks thought they were speed demons surfing the Net at 1 Mbs. They'll probably be at 100 Gbs.
Originally posted by Centurion Am I the only person to have an Atari 800 (not 800xl) and ONE single sided single density floppy drive on which to run a one line bbs using my 25 inch color tv as the monitor?
There was enough room on the floppy for oh..about 25 messages and then they all scrolled off.
And that was at 300 baud. Then came 1200 baud, then 2400, and THEN 9600!! Hayes modems! Fnet! And the best game ever..M.U.L.E.
I STILL play M.U.L.E. That was my favorite game ever!
Your Commodore wasn't shit if you didn't have the Turbo Booster Cartridge you slipped into the back!
Got a Vic20 and then they sold me on the 64 because they had the print out of TutenKaman (that Pharoah dude) in all gold and done digitally. They said that you could replicate that on your 64 although I never figured out how to.
Originally posted by tootie I really loved those door games. L.O.R.D., Tradewars, B.R.E., Falcon's Eye, Junkyard... there were so many!
Sarah, I hear you. I loved that part of L.O.R.D.
How about Pimpwars? That was fun too.
I remember the first time someone told me about the internet.. it was like 1991 or so.. I was like.. yer full of shit.. there isn't 10,000 people on some server chatting! (IRC)
haha.. got my first dialup account in late 1993/ or early 1994 and I have been hooked ever since.
I was a sysop of a two line waffle BBS called Heart of Gold from 90 to 93, when the whole bbs scene pretty much collapsed. Of course, there were about 10 "Heart of Golds". Because of waffle I had a usenet feed and true internet email when a lot of bulletin boards were using more specialized bbs software.
I didn't name it, I inherited it from someone else.
ha, the old days, I used to run a 10 node pc board software bbs and used to feed the newgroups to my bbs members via a shell account at netcom, was one of netcoms fiirst customers, was fun stuff back then
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” ― Omar Bradley (1948)
Originally posted by gornyhuy Anybody here ever do any "phreaking" back in the day? We had these autodialers that would call up the long distance services and just brute force calling card codes all night... in the morning we'd have like 15 fresh codes for reaching all the good long distance and international BBSs.
I never did any of the hard stuff, but I was once given an international 0014 freecall number (free if dialled from Australia) that presented you with a USA dialtone. No access codes at all, and no charge for the AU-USA leg on my bill. I used it a few times but then I figured it was too good to be true... I heard later it was some sort of sting by the Australian feds.
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