Does anyone know what a BBS is(was)?

[Doc911]

I started in the Adult business in the days of Bulletin Boards and huge downloadable .gif files.

I posted in the news groups when it was still "new" and the word spam was not a household name.

I thought 2400 baud modems were fast.

I bought not one but two 10 meg mfm hard drives cause i never wanted to run out of space.

I still change my chat windows to a black background with green lettering cause its what I'm used too.


Can anyone here relate to this?

[- Jesus Christ -]

Yes... and I'm only 21...

ever hear of "the pirates cove"?

[Roger]

I had one running Renegade at the time.

[aaron]

i used to call boards (mostly those running citadel) on my 14.4 in 5th grade.
(i am 18 now and freshman in college)

those were some good times... remember LORD?

[brizzad]

that's pretty old school

i started on a 14.4bps modem, 133 meg hard drive, 8 megs of ram going into proggy rooms on aol 1.7 and then 2.5, and then schooling it up in 'vbhelp' ... but that's not nearly as oldschool as black BG with green text BBS

[fusionx]

Tradewars, baby!

To show my geek-a-tude, a couple years ago I wrote a web site that emulated the old RA BBS - same admin style, same annoying registration questionairre, everything.

We put Tradewars on it and made it telnet accessible - was a ton of fun for about two months. Then it got boring again :-)

I actually miss the old BBS days. BBS' were something really new and fresh. Plus, they had one thing the web generally lacks - a real sense of community. Boards like this are great, but most BBS' were local in scope.. some had parties twice a month. I met a lot of cool people (and some not so cool) in those days.

[harvey]

old times. ugly times. I love my DSL (exception made of the last 3 days)

[aaron]

Originally posted by fusionx
Tradewars, baby!

To show my geek-a-tude, a couple years ago I wrote a web site that emulated the old RA BBS - same admin style, same annoying registration questionairre, everything.

We put Tradewars on it and made it telnet accessible - was a ton of fun for about two months. Then it got boring again :-)

I actually miss the old BBS days. BBS' were something really new and fresh. Plus, they had one thing the web generally lacks - a real sense of community. Boards like this are great, but most BBS' were local in scope.. some had parties twice a month. I met a lot of cool people (and some not so cool) in those days.

Word.

[rowan]

teleprinter
old dial phone
300bps accoustic coupled modem
the year was 1984

Heaven. >:)

[Evil1]

Originally posted by Roger
I had one running Renegade at the time.

Renegade, a hex editor, and some elite ansi graphics. <sigh>

[itzjamiex]

I recommend that you read Obscene Profits by Fredrick S. Lane III.. for all my college buddys you can get it in the campus library.. save some bucks. It has alot of information about the porn industry... including BBS.

[lock]

i had a 1k modem for the c64 and a 2kb modem for an apple. Still have a modem i think at parents.

[Doc911]

We still have a large group here. The real old school people. Most of them are still doing the same thing only differently. CU-SeeMe replaced the ascii text chat and video rooms became our home. I Put up a site for the reflectors as they are now called but it was taken down by the new owners after I sold it to him and his wife.

I've always done inhouse server location.

from multi-point serial cards with modem racks for dial-in connections.

to

T-1's and routers right in the server room.

been considering some free hosting and out sourcing bandwith, but last time i tried it i got burned.

is hosting your own websites on your own servers a bad idea?

[Doc911]

I ran Wildcat BBS I still have the 5 1/4 inch floppy.

[cluck]

I've got a 14.4 PCMCIA modem and a 14.4 mac modem somewhere around here

[tootie]

I used to call BBSs when I was a kid. We had a 300 baud modem on a Commodore 64. That was fun! I had alot of fun on BBSs in the mid-to-late 90's. The first time I ever got on the internet was through the internet gateway of my favorite BBS in Atlanta, INDEX (Information, News and Data EXchange). That was in late 1995. I also used to call Dokk's BBS, Software Monster, and my dad (who met him on the BBS) actually went to Dokk's house a couple of times way back then! Those were some fun times.

I LOVED Tradewars, Falcon's Eye, Barren Realms Elite, and especially L.O.R.D. Legend of the Red Dragon ROCKED! Jennie Garth is cute! Hehe.

[cluck]

Remembering my old Mac SE-30, anyone remember playing BOLO? Multiplayer?

[psyko514]

I got my first computer in 1997 ( a P133mhz, 2 gig HD, 32 megs of RAM, 33.6 modem) just as BBSes were fading out. I spent about a year on them. Trade Wars and LORD were good, but I completely forgot about BRE. Holy fuck, I loved that game.

Is there somewhere that it can be played online?

[AaronM]

Originally posted by Doc911
I started in the Adult business in the days of Bulletin Boards and huge downloadable .gif files.

I posted in the news groups when it was still "new" and the word spam was not a household name.

I thought 2400 baud modems were fast.

I bought not one but two 10 meg mfm hard drives cause i never wanted to run out of space.

I still change my chat windows to a black background with green lettering cause its what I'm used too.


Can anyone here relate to this?

I was a beta tester for Mustang Software back in the day. Wildcat 5 was my first real attempt at a money making BBS.

I was addicted to L.O.R.D.

[Evil1]

Originally posted by cluck
I've got a 14.4 PCMCIA modem and a 14.4 mac modem somewhere around here

I had a 300 in the 80's and still have a 2400 around here somewhere.

[The Dawg]

I started on a C64, 1541 & 1200 baud modem. Then when I became elite (haha) I was smokin' with a 9600 baud modem. ANSI, PC Pursuit amongst others, PBX's, 0 day warez. I forgot the name of the BBS software I had but I ran the Error Channel BBS ( 0-1 Day Warez)

...oh the memories.

[Doc911]

I should re-install wildcat bbs on a server and try to get it to work. it was geared toward the possibility of the internet actually taking off. and has a little tcp/ip technology. Anyone tried that?

Wait i forgot most of you are 20-25 years old.

Think they are old enough to handle BBS chat?

[goBigtime]

anyone remember the door game EMPIRE?

[Doc911]

Hi AaronM

I think I have wildcat 3.0 and 4.0 i was on the upgrade list LOL

in 1991 i had a 12 x 14.4 modem rack running off os2. fuck I was styling.

[ytcracker]

i co sysoped two huge boards in the 719

the dominion
and vampyres anonymous

holla game telegard renegade wwiv bizitch

by the way i was the tradewars master
and LORD was tight as well

[The Dawg]

Was Tradewars the one where your board sent off to fight against another boards space army and then after a few days the results would come in saying that you destroyed this and that and captured X amount of planets?

[mryellow]

2400 baud! man you had it good! :-)

I had 1 free BBS to connect to which was a long distance call on a 1200.

-Ben

[aaron]

EW I HATE WILDCAT BBS SOFTWARE. CITADEL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!

[ytcracker]

Originally posted by The Dawg
Was Tradewars the one where your board sent off to fight against another boards space army and then after a few days the results would come in saying that you destroyed this and that and captured X amount of planets?

yea and u traded goods and u could like conquer planets and build bases and make ur colonists fuck and make u grain and shit

[fusionx]

Originally posted by Doc911
I ran Wildcat BBS I still have the 5 1/4 inch floppy.

hehe - I just checked some old boxes.. and.. I've got all the Wildcat disks - BBS, WildMail, all the addons for fidonet, etc..

I should put it up with a telnet socket emulator just for fun.. add in all the old door games :-)

[fusionx]

Took a few minutes to find this:

http://www.eisonline.com/products/

That's the homepage for Tradewars 2002, and TWGS - the Tradewars Game Server.

TWGS Rocks.. lets you host Tradewars over TCP/IP without a BBS, etc.

[AaronM]

Originally posted by Doc911
Hi AaronM

I think I have wildcat 3.0 and 4.0 i was on the upgrade list LOL

in 1991 i had a 12 x 14.4 modem rack running off os2. fuck I was styling.

I still have my Boca modem pool somewhere. I think it was 8 or 12 modems plus I had 6 Motorola 28.8 modem surfers.

The funny thing is that this was all running off a DIAL UP account and still making me some cash.

Sucklers paid per image download, time connected, or monthly fees. Damn......That was a racket.

[AaronM]

Originally posted by fusionx



hehe - I just checked some old boxes.. and.. I've got all the Wildcat disks - BBS, WildMail, all the addons for fidonet, etc..

I should put it up with a telnet socket emulator just for fun.. add in all the old door games :-)

I have the PPP pack and all that shit. Beta Testers got all the WC5 shit for 75% off so I bought most of it.

Now it's all in boxes in storage.

[Rictor]

My C64 didn't have a modem.

I used to get online at my uncle's house back when you paid by the minute.

When I bought my first computer (at 18) it was a P100 with a 14.4 modem, 16 megs ram, and a 1.2 gig hard drive.

[Dirty F]

Yup...downloading 4 channel mod files to listen with my soundblaster 1.0 on my xt with a 2400 baud modem...interesting times

[AaronM]

Originally posted by Rictor
My C64 didn't have a modem.

I used to get online at my uncle's house back when you paid by the minute.

When I bought my first computer (at 18) it was a P100 with a 14.4 modem, 16 megs ram, and a 1.2 gig hard drive.

C64? I still have a Vic20 laying around somewhere. Not sure what happened to the IBM PC jr.

[Doc911]

I had them hooked up to a 64 k isdn line hummmmm.
12x14.4=64k? I think they coined a name for that.

[TiffanyPowers]

Ya I remember BBS'

I had just spent $3K on a computer and was annoyed that it was idle most of the time. So I installed a phone line (an extra 30$ a month) and setup the bbs. I was running WWIV and then Searchlight (really cool normal dos apps could run as doors), then Wildcat 5.0

It started off on a 4 mb 386dx33 with a 9600 baud modem. I upgraded it with an extra 4 mb of ram for 400$. I just finished buying a laptop for 1300$ and upgrading to a gig of ram for 300$. Simply incredible how fast computers have dropped in price and increased in performance.

Someone was saying that they were logging into BBS's in 97? Strange, in our market BBS's were devastated in 94-95. Once the Internet hit all the trade shows all the Sysops folded up shop and started ISP's. ;) or got out of the game.

Hey if anyone is interested in playing tradewars again there are a few web equivalents around. Take a look at these:
http://www.quantum-star.com/
http://aatrade.springfield.net/

I have something rediculas like 50 quadrillion credits in the springfield game. If anyone wants some cash join the game and let me know.

Cheers.

[Doc911]

way way back when i dropped the bbs for a "website" i got listed on the hun with a 128 k isdn running off an NT server 3.5. damn those were the days.

I couldn't figure out where all the checks were coming from cause i had so many affiliates.

[sandman!]

Originally posted by Roger
I had one running Renegade at the time.

I had a dl hack for renegade that once in awile if it crashed it took the whole board down was fun back in high school

[Bree]

I remember dialing up to Amateur Action BBS !! LOL

My first PC was an Apple IIGS with 1M of storage. I had two 3.5 floppy drives for playing games.. a favorite was Bard's Tale.

I also remember playing Leather Goddesses of Phoobos.

and if you ever used newsgroups.. maybe you recall the flame on this site..

www.finalretribution.com

(It's a site I created in tribute to my ex husband ;) )

[psyko514]

Originally posted by TiffanyPowers
Someone was saying that they were logging into BBS's in 97? Strange, in our market BBS's were devastated in 94-95. Once the Internet hit all the trade shows all the Sysops folded up shop and started ISP's. ;) or got out of the game.

Yep, I was on them through out 97. I got my computer for Xmas 96 and we had one of those free AOL accounts back when they gave you 50 hours a month. Since I couldn't always be on AOL, I started checking out BBSes. They all closed by the end of 97. I think the last one I was on was my high school BBS which closed when they kids running it started a webpage instead.

[WiredGuy]

Originally posted by Doc911
I ran Wildcat BBS I still have the 5 1/4 inch floppy.

Wildcat! baby. I had that with 4 phone lines setup with Frontpage mail, Doors and the whole works. It was my first business while I was in highschool

WG

[cyberpunk]

Mmmmm 1200 baud her son

[GonePhishing]

I totally remember the thrill of dialing into a BBS as a youngster. I totally hear that. I also miss the days of IRC when you could do it in raw ass IRCII. I also loved scripts like Chaos, Phoenix, Scythe, and Sculd.

[XxXotic]

Originally posted by Doc911
I started in the Adult business in the days of Bulletin Boards and huge downloadable .gif files.

I posted in the news groups when it was still "new" and the word spam was not a household name.

I thought 2400 baud modems were fast.

I bought not one but two 10 meg mfm hard drives cause i never wanted to run out of space.

I still change my chat windows to a black background with green lettering cause its what I'm used too.


Can anyone here relate to this?

i ran a WWIV and a renegade bbs for a few years