Shout out to OLD SCHOOL BBSers!

[GFED]

I've been trying to get in touch with some of my old friends... I took down my BBS (VERTiGO BBS [1984-1993]) unexpectingly and thought that some of them might have moved on to the Internet... maybe even post here?

Greets to: CYBERBiT(Tampa), FASHiONLiGHT(Italy), Quad Squad(Tampa), GG Allin(Tampa), RIP(Turkey), VIP(Turkey), and anyone else that might remember me!

[Sarah_Jayne]

well I wasn't on your BBS but I was as much an old bbs whore as I am a board whore. *sigh* Those were the days.

[The Truth Hurts]

Fashionlight and vertigo sound vagualy familiar.

Only two I can remember with any clarity are The Pocket Protector and the-Spa! (springfield public access)..

If i can find my Telix floppy, I know i've got a big list on there..

[Blacker]

Everyone refers to them as 'the good old days' ... but they so were, there was just something about it ...

Loved my BBS days, towards the end i was also a L.O.R.D. addict, i needed therapy to stop playing that game.

[Gemini]

My old man was a local L.O.R.D. nut. He played it on 3 or 4 boards. Used to skunk a few guys until they got mad and quit.

Luck on your search. So far in all these years we have only run a across a couple of old boardies and one wasn't one we wanted to see. lol

[VirtuMike]

Shit I was running a board in the early 90's called Majestic Interlude. It was a Cnet running on my commie 64.

Thank you Steve Punter!

[KRL]

I'm pretty sure I visited your board. That name rings a solid bell.

[GFED]

YES, I miss the good ole' days... It was originally a C64 BBS running All American BBS, then switched to Cnet, then Ami-Express when I got my AMiGA. Most of you were probably IBMers and never visited.

KRL:

What was your handle back then if you don't mind me asking? Do you remember Angels/Defjam?

[Sarah_Jayne]

I don't know, there just seemed to be more of a sense of community. The web was like that for the first year or so of popular usuage but only because it was mostly the same people taking that step up.

I was a trade wars nut. Just call me Gladiator Tamer (*rolls eyes*)

[GFED]

Never played L.O.R.D. but I loved Trade Wars... sometimes I visited the WWIV boards just to play the games...

[GFED]

Damn... trying to remember some old boards I used to visit... It's so long ago I can hardly remember... the only one that sticks in my head is Masturbation Station...

[DirkG]

Wow, Vertigo and Magestic Interlude, I was on both boards many times. And I saw them listed in many files that passed through a friends board. I cant remember the name of it now but his nick was Natas Kapas. He ran Fido, and about 5 other nets on a ring of 8 30mhz 386's at the end. Every day he would get a new tape backup full of new files to put online.

But the early days were much more fun on the c64 and amiga's. I spent many days up all night calling so many different states checking out places like both those boards.
Anyone remember The Crystal Ship? That was a kickass board for its time, lots of ansi and cool graphics. And info not available many other places.

[gornyhuy]

I was a C64 bbs nut back in the early 80s. I even remember I was sooooo cool because I boosted my 300 baud modem up to 450. HELLS YEAH.

How else are you going to download those big ASCII porn pics?

[Kevin2]

omg I remember fido

[Jeffery]

Tradewars was the kickass game. I never understood the love of LORD. Tradewars had the complexity needed to make an all text game fun.

[kmanrox]

i used to hack into my dads LionsDen BBS account to get porn pictures.... That was Lee Noga's in Florida =)

[modF]

Originally posted by Jeffery
Tradewars was the kickass game. I never understood the love of LORD. Tradewars had the complexity needed to make an all text game fun.

I think I still have the Tradewars Helper app on two floppies (5 ¼ inch DSHD) at home in my basement somewhere.

It is a shame that PcBoard (Clark Dev?) went out of business a few years ago.

[NetRodent]

The summer I discovered BBS's I ended up having to paint the house pay my parents back for a whopping long distance bill.

[FiReC]

Brainscan III - minneapolis

[Elli]

Yeah, I used to play TradeWars and some space game I can't remember the name of.. Here in town it was I.C.EOnline and Shoreline, and then the little VirtualReality board. Actually, a whole bunch of old modemmers have resurrected the original board and put it on telnet, which is quite cool. It sure was strange talking to folks again that I haven't seen for 10 years. The new one is called Dark Carnival. Neat stuff! We used to have meets to go to the fireworks, and Bino's at 2am

[B Sandwich]

I love L.O.R.D. and I also liked to play food fight on occasion... never got into trade wars... then again I was very young at the time and it seemed very complex

I had a bbs in louisiana called "the pit" lol it was WWIV

[webair]

i helped sysop falkens maze in NY

had some cool shit going on there back in the days

[LeeNoga]

Ran a 2 node QuickBBS software in 1888, "Queen Of Hearts", and donations mailed in were so nice! Good old FIDO and KINKnet, frontdoor and all those doors we had to set up for the sex games.

Even went to the BBS conventions in Colorado Springs.

[GFED]

heh... it feels like a highschool reunion...

Who's got a list of some good boards available VIA telnet? I'd like to check out what's still out there...

[B Sandwich]

I too would like find a bbs to play some L.O.R.D. for nostalgia reasons...

anyone?

[Dirty D]

Ah yes....

I was Robin Hood and my BBS was obviously "The Sherwood Forest"

The statute of limitations has run out, otherwise this post would have never been made!

I wrote the BBS software (Platinum_BBS), my own Zmodem protocol and even built some of the disk drives the site ran on.

Folks sent money orders to my PO box for access to the site.

Some old school shit - my first modem was a 300 baud acoustic coupler... That meant you put the handset from a phone into the cradle. 300 baud is so slow, you could read the text as it was transmitted.

Definately paid the bills...

Thanks for the blast from the past... Some brain cells that I thought were long since dead, have awoken!

[KRL]

Originally posted by GFED


KRL:

What was your handle back then if you don't mind me asking? Do you remember Angels/Defjam?

God, that was so long ago, I can't remember for sure, but I think one was NightRider.

[TheFLY]

I'm glad to see the BBS guys still hanging on to the lifestyle hehe... GFY is kindof like the oldschool BBS days.

I was in 305 -- my bbs was ZAP! -- mostly the top shareware shit and lots of good door games -- several nice TW2002 and GlobalWars battles... some guys from my highschool spent hours logged into that shit. I was multi-node for a while -- nothing crazy.

Really wish I could have afforded one of those crazy multinode Galacticom systems back then -- that would have been fun -- my younger brother got more into Flash Attack and shit like that but they were rarely free to join so I avoided them...

[Donnie Gangsta]

Hm.. wasn't on any of those boards, but once in 8th grade, this kid pissed me off so I added his telephone # to the list of local BBS's, and said it was the PWA Worldheadquaters (Pirates with Attitudes, a warez group from way back when)

he got a lot of phone calls in middle of night, apparently.. was quite amusing.

[TheFLY]

Originally posted by dustman
I wrote the BBS software (Platinum_BBS), my own Zmodem protocol and even built some of the disk drives the site ran on.

Zmodem was the shit...

The only other cool protocol was the one that would let you do bi-directional transfers -- that was cool shit -- download and upload at the same time -- can't remember the name of it now...

[jact]

I used to run a board called "The Burning Church", was Co-sysop on a few boards including "My Booming System" and "Twins" and for a brief period Akira Project, though admittedly Devious Doze and I didn't get along for long. Oh and F/X aswell...

I had leech on Elusive Dream, man, that was nice. Leech on The Wall also.

Oh man, those were the days.

[jact]

Originally posted by TheFLY


Zmodem was the shit...

The only other cool protocol was the one that would let you do bi-directional transfers -- that was cool shit -- download and upload at the same time -- can't remember the name of it now...

HSLink, no?

[TheFLY]

I didn't carry Fidonet on my BBS -- I joined the iNTELEC network -- it was hierarchy based if I remember right... I remember my system would get called at a certain time of the day to do all the mail transfers... Cool shit.

It was probably on Fidonet or one of the others where I did a lot of reading on AI -- really got excited about artificial intelligence... Funny to think of myself as a kid in middleschool considering the philosophy of AI, but that's exactly what I did for fun in those days...

[TheFLY]

Originally posted by jact
HSLink, no?

That rings a bell...

[jact]

Originally posted by TheFLY


That rings a bell...

I just did a search on google, yeah HSLink was the widely used bidirectional interface with chat (Which was nice on 3 day transfers).

[TheFLY]

I was also in the art group called GRiM for a while -- they eventually merged with iCE... My claim to fame was that I was in iCE for a day... then iCE restructured or something -- that was always a mess -- the groups were always changing leadership and moving around... iCE and Acid did manage to survive tho -- I think they have websites now.

[jact]

Originally posted by TheFLY
I was also in the art group called GRiM for a while -- they eventually merged with iCE... My claim to fame was that I was in iCE for a day... then iCE restructured or something -- that was always a mess -- the groups were always changing leadership and moving around... iCE and Acid did manage to survive tho -- I think they have websites now.

Waaaaaay back when I was like 12 I ran an iCE distro site, they were constantly changing leadership/control.

I was also in a group called "YAM" at that point, Youngsters Against Mcafee, was an amusing little group of virii collectors.

[TheFLY]

Originally posted by jact


I just did a search on google, yeah HSLink was the widely used bidirectional interface with chat (Which was nice on 3 day transfers).

Hhaha yeah I remember the chat option now... I remember thinking that was kindof cheesy to chat during a file transfer -- but it was cool for back then. I guess that was before "multitasking" was popular

[jact]

Originally posted by TheFLY


Hhaha yeah I remember the chat option now... I remember thinking that was kindof cheesy to chat during a file transfer -- but it was cool for back then. I guess that was before "multitasking" was popular

Multitasking was a chore and a half before windows..

[VirtuMike]

My favorite old school hack was these fucking apple boards. I had one kid I knew from freshman year of high school we didn't like. I had some sort of buffer dump on my old dumb terminal. Basically you futz around filling up your buffer, then hit the dump button and it would pop any apple 2 board into a prompt. One day I remember I wrote a little script that formatted his floppy in a loop till that fucker got back from vacation.

He was PISSED. I wiped out his whole board and burned out his floppy drive.

Apples suck.

[B Sandwich]

I dont know about you guys but I loved WWIV boards... the rest had a bad interface, and was straight up not fun to use

[Sarah_Jayne]

i used to think that all new internet users should have to answer some questions:

1: Are you connecting to the internet with the sole reason of buying porn?
- If yes proceed and enjoy you cyberwank
- If no please continue on to question two

2: Do you know what a sysop is?
- If no your modem will now self destruct
- If yes please enjoy your stay, you are worthy of your connection.

[LadyMischief]

Originally posted by sarah_webinc
well I wasn't on your BBS but I was as much an old bbs whore as I am a board whore. *sigh* Those were the days.

Ditto on that.. passing the day playing Trade Wars and most especially mutants, talking on the chat rooms.. Trolling for porn. Yep. I remember those days.

[KRL]

Galacticomm has Worldgroup 3.3 out now.

http://www.gcomm.com/home.htm


and Wildcat is still around too. LOL

http://www.santronics.com/products/wildcatdos/

[Sarah_Jayne]

oooh, wildcat...getting all misty eyed

[KRL]

http://www.webone.com.au/~dougsden/bbs.htm

Classic BBS style



Lots of good stuff here:

http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/software.htm

[MattO]

I used to write a lot of anarchy type text files back in the 80's and was suprised to see how many are floating around on the web and actually for sale on some "hacker" cd's. Even found a couple of web pages that reformatted some all nice.

[some_idiot]

Byron Connection, Spitfire (pioneer), 4 lines, 1990-1997.
Was Canada's Lakota netmail hub, wrote the Usenet
tosser and the tape drive access door.

[Jimmer]

if I didn't stay on BBS's so long I would have got in on the big money of the internet.

[GFED]

Originally posted by MattO
I used to write a lot of anarchy type text files back in the 80's and was suprised to see how many are floating around on the web and actually for sale on some "hacker" cd's. Even found a couple of web pages that reformatted some all nice.

Anarchist's Cookbook?