Who remembers telnetting into BBS chat rooms?

[jimthefiend]

Just wondering. This woulda been in like 91-92 maybe.

I feel old.

[jimthefiend]

Actually I remember chatting on one based at some college in Illinois watching the Waco burning.

[ScReAmH2O]

I'm too young lol

[Paul Markham]

I remember selling content to guys for BBS sites, it was not called sites in those days.

[ne0]

i'm way too young for that
but i have an uncle who used to be a sysop, scary stuff

[Quagmire]

old sk00l. I remember dialup BBSes and telnetting to the net. I remember the world wide web before visual browsers were common, getting loads of text and little links on the page that said [PIC] where a picture was imbedded for you to download and look at.

This was all back when jesus was still walking on water.

[alsdesign]

Though I didn't do any BBS, but I started with IRC very early.
Remember even stuff like gopher and such.

Also remember how much I hated VI editor when writing scripts

[pussyluver]

yeah, I'm old enough. Remebering downloading one pic at a time in slo-mo.

[notabook]

lmao... I remember playing Tempest over bbs a helluva long time ago. Then some shitty company bought the rights to it and turned it into a neat text based. Then ANOTHER company (Mythic Entertainment) bought the rights to the text based game and turned it into a three-realmed multiplayer text based game... which was the framework of one of the most popular mmorpg's out there today, Dark Age of Camelot.

[Sarah_Jayne]

I certainly do and I really miss the old BBS days sometimes.

[jimthefiend]

Originally Posted by sarah_webinc

I certainly do and I really miss the old BBS days sometimes.

You and me both.

[NoWhErE]

I'm only 23 years old and I remember them quite well. I was a 9 year old sysop and co-sysop to many BBSs.

I was also an ASCII artist (those big blocks of colours... oh those were the days!)

I remember playing games like L.O.R.D and being in awe of BBSs with multiple lines were users could actually chat live!

[Nasty]

The good old days, I ran a 12 node bbs running PCBoard software, spent all my time branding my bbs number on dirty pictures and uploading them to Rusty and Eddies bbs for viral marketing.

At its peak the bbs ran on 6 386's running desqview so you could run 2 nodes on each box, 3 486's with a 2500 meg drive in each one which cost a buck a meg.

Made pretty good money for a hobbie, charged by the month and all nodes were always full

[SpaceAce]

Originally Posted by jimthefiend

Just wondering. This woulda been in like 91-92 maybe.

I feel old.

Heh, is this what passes for old-school now? I remember when telnet BBSes were spanking new space-age technology.

The real question is: Who remembers using their eight-pound 300 baud modem (which made the most HORRENDOUS noises and had no volume control unless you sent coded commands straight to the modem hardware) to dial directly into another person's 300 baud modem to read BBS chat boards that took about three minutes per page to load? I do!

SpaceAce

[SpaceAce]

Originally Posted by Nasty

The good old days, I ran a 12 node bbs running PCBoard software, spent all my time branding my bbs number on dirty pictures and uploading them to Rusty and Eddies bbs for viral marketing.

At its peak the bbs ran on 6 386's running desqview so you could run 2 nodes on each box, 3 486's with a 2500 meg drive in each one which cost a buck a meg.

Made pretty good money for a hobbie, charged by the month and all nodes were always full

It was Rusty and Edie's and they eventually went down on federal software piracy charges. The MacHenry BBS was the other big porno center in those days. They actually transitioned over to the internet. I don't know if they are still up or not.

SpaceAce

[Chris]

i still do bbs stuff :D
fun stuff

[SpaceAce]

Originally Posted by NoWhErE

I'm only 23 years old and I remember them quite well. I was a 9 year old sysop and co-sysop to many BBSs.

I was also an ASCII artist (those big blocks of colours... oh those were the days!)

I remember playing games like L.O.R.D and being in awe of BBSs with multiple lines were users could actually chat live!

I liked LORD a lot but I think Solar Realms Elite and Barren Realms Elite were the best. Tradewars was also very popular but too involved for me, usually.

SpaceAce

[Amysworld]

Oh I remember.... AND my parents remember for sure.

I remember taking us "kids" to BBS parties... I swear, if they only knew the trouble us little computer "geeks" were getting into while they partied, they would have thought twice...

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Nasty

The good old days, I ran a 12 node bbs running PCBoard software, spent all my time branding my bbs number on dirty pictures and uploading them to Rusty and Eddies bbs for viral marketing.

At its peak the bbs ran on 6 386's running desqview so you could run 2 nodes on each box, 3 486's with a 2500 meg drive in each one which cost a buck a meg.

Made pretty good money for a hobbie, charged by the month and all nodes were always full

What was the name of your BBS?

[Dollarmansteve]

I used to run a dial-up BBS running Renegade! lol (it was not sophisticated).. used to telnet chat to a place called "Cyber Manhattan"

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by SpaceAce

It was Rusty and Edie's and they eventually went down on federal software piracy charges. The MacHenry BBS was the other big porno center in those days. They actually transitioned over to the internet. I don't know if they are still up or not.

SpaceAce

I remember them both - and also Gabby's Lounge.

Those were the days...

Think I still have an archive cdrom somewhere here in the office of all the old McHenry BBS content.

My wife and I met over a local adult BBS eleven years ago - called Wanderer's Rest (later renamed Off-World BBS).

[OG LennyT]

I remember dialing in to one from my HS library... us 'computer geeks' talked a lot of shit to 'old dudes' trying to look at porn.LOL. funny now that I look back.

[Sarah_Jayne]

In my high school there were a group of maybe 25 of us that used local BBSes and it was like an underground society. I clearly remember one kid being taken out (decked) in the hallway on his way to lunch as an ordered hit over something he did in a Trade Wars game.

The same year a teacher gave me a bonus point in class because I knew what 'download' meant.

[edgeprod]

Heh, I used to log into Archie, and try to find a site with a "broken" telnet address (meaning it timed out, usually). Then, it would let me use "any" address, so I could pop in a BBS.

Old school!

I used to dial in to quite a few BBS places with a Commodore 64, too.

[Doctor Dre]

Nop I'm not THAT old school ;)

[G-Rotica]

i ran a multi line wildcat bbs. i was sure the internet was a fad.

[jimthefiend]

Originally Posted by G-Rotica

i ran a multi line wildcat bbs. i was sure the internet was a fad.

I ran a PowerBBS.


LMAO

That was sooooo expensive.

[Nasty]

Originally Posted by GonZo

What was the name of your BBS?

acme bbs, livermore california, the bbs at the url acmebbs.com was not my bbs btw

[G-Rotica]

Originally Posted by jimthefiend

I ran a PowerBBS.


LMAO

That was sooooo expensive.

The amount of $ I spent on that shit was stupid. a 386 with 7, 877meg SCSI drives. Cost me over $1k each.

[rvincent]

I do remember... I even set up one in 1994 which is still running (throught not run by me anymore); ok, I feel old too now...

[drjones]

I was there! Used to dial up the BBS's though, didnt have any kind of ISP back then.

My favorite door game had to be USURPER. LORD was OK, but Usurper had that edginess to it:P. A friend of mine set up a telnet bbs recently for the hell of it, running all the old games like LORD, Usurper, Tradewars etc. He actually had it running under WINE on linux. Brought back some memories but the novelty wore off pretty quickly:P

[SinisterStudios]

Out Of This World was the BBS i was connected to all the time, wow this thread is a blast from the past

[bringer]

i had a renegade and wildcat bbs but before that i mostly used telix to dialup to local multiline bbs' to chat with people. making ascii with thedraw was fun too. nerds

[prodiac]

I was an ASCII artist for awhile, and ran a few different bbs' in the ANSI/ASCII Art scene. I was also a co-sysop for a couple different big multi-phone line san diego based bbs's. This was all when I was a 14-15 years old. Long before I ever made it to the net.

The first time I heard of the "world wide web" was on a big San Diego BBS, that had a World Wide Web email portal.

Then of course, my first email account was a Dialup Juno account, awhile before I ever got my first dialup internet account.

I think I ended up using AOL before getting a regular Dialup Account though. Just on their trial basis.

L.O.R.D. was one of the best ANSI games ever .. My friend still runs his board over telnet, mostly just for old friends to play LORD.

[Marshal]

i ran a bbs more than 10 years ago...

[Linkster]

Originally Posted by GonZo

What was the name of your BBS?

Gonzo - mine was the Post BBS - at its peak it was running a room full of boxes similar to Rustys up in Ohio but when we saw the Inet taking over we left it running with a few nodes for the people that had paid for a year in advance.
We invested (and at that time it was a huge investment) in multi 6-CD changers for the download library that ran everything from Windy Citys CDs to Busty Babes(seems there was one that had a few undesirable Tracy Lords pics on it we had to remove) and all the old Arsenal stuff. Of course we had the scanners running full time as well for the CCC and SE stuff from overseas - but that got old and overused
The others that havent been mentioned that I remember were Amateur Action, of course Compuserve for text, Garlique, Hi-Tecks place, Nighthawk, Nitelog, Lauras Lair, Gabbys Lounge, Nix Pix(which was also WC), Farmers Daughter etc etc
I remember LORD was tops although I had some overlays for different types of scenarios and Planets was second - although the chat rooms got some good action as well

[Sarah_Jayne]

L.O.R.D. was a cult

[Elli]

hehe I was on the local Magnetic Visions and Virtual Reality and STS-13. I remember going to the phone company office and throwing $5 on PJ (the sysop's) account as a form of membership. Ahh good times. ;)

[Elli]

Ohhhh BRE! That's the name of the one I played! Not a lot, mind you. My house only had one phone line....

[media]

I used to run a big ansi group and used to courier for a few groups... ahh the good old days... my first modem was 2400 bps I'm still young too... I would have gotten in earlier had I known about it when I was even younger.. lol..

[Chillin the Most]

I remember my 1200 Hayes Compatible Modem accessing Edenia BBS running with T-BBS. (Costa Rica 1991)

What I really miss are the Sierra Quest Games

[media]

I remember when we had our bbs linked up on two 14.4's and we got to start charging for access, that was good times...

Renegade and Telegard were the shit... I was super 1337 when it came to moding out all the renegade pages and functionality...

[prodiac]

Originally Posted by media

I used to run a big ansi group and used to courier for a few groups... ahh the good old days... my first modem was 2400 bps I'm still young too... I would have gotten in earlier had I known about it when I was even younger.. lol..

Hey Media, which ANSI group was that?

[Deej]

i used to MUD for hours....
i look back and wish I spent that time productive....
buying/selling domains....getting a tgp up n runnin.....woulda been prime...

[Gemhdar]

http://www.iscabbs.com/

I was on this one for eons...at one time, it seemed like everyone was there.

I feel old now too

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by sarah_webinc

I certainly do and I really miss the old BBS days sometimes.

True dat bawla.

[media]

Originally Posted by Nasty

acme bbs, livermore california, the bbs at the url acmebbs.com was not my bbs btw

WOAH.... Remember Orion, or Black Rain?

[BoyAlley]

I remember those days. 0ld Sch00l..............

[media]

Originally Posted by prodiac

Hey Media, which ANSI group was that?

VOiD.... we had a few iCE members in our group too....

[NetRodent]

I miss the days of ascii art. I still have this in my .plan file:

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     .(   _(   )_.' 
     Rodentia Now!

Of course I have to wonder how many people on here even know what a .plan file is.