In every BBS: 1986-1992

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1. Awesome wildlife ASCII pix

― baaderonixx, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

2. Rolling Stones lyrics

― blueski, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

2. DOOR GAMES THAT I'M TOO STUPID TO SUSS

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

make that 3. then

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

Re 1: s/wildlife/pornographic/

― Forest Pines, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

8,N,1

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

5. NO CARRIER

― .stet., Friday, 16 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Cult of the Dead Cow

― dan selzer, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Secrets of the Little Blue Box

― dan selzer, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sprint codes

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Anarchist's Cookbook

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Fake quoted text

DEATHKILLER WROTE:
> I'm a total loser and a homo.

Well I'm glad you admitted it!

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ren and Stimpy WAV files

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

"Jive mode"

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Fidonet

sigs w/ weird ascii characters in place of normal Roman letters.

― kingfish, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

NIBBLES.BAS uploaded as ratio filler

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Board owner's mom answering the phone because you called too early

― Chris H., Friday, 16 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.spacequad.com/images/twhello.jpg

bill the cat

porn .gifs w/ BBS #s listed

.DIZ files

― kingfish, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.archaicbinary.net/images/stories/telnetbbs/lordwelcome.png

― homosexual II, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

people with handles like "zharvek"

― homosexual II, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

gfiles
"elite" users who had USRobotics HST modems
warez/codez/hack/phreak/virus
demos from european demo groups
upload/download ratios
top posters
sysops who would watch loser users start downloads at 1200bps and then turn off the modem on them
new user signup questionnaires that asked people to expand acronyms of game cracking groups
constant amiga advocacy on non-amiga boards
persistent paranoia about feds
occasional real feds

Those were fun times.

― mfleming, Saturday, 17 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

sigs w/ weird ascii characters in place of normal Roman letters.

yes! fun times..

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Saturday, 17 March 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Fight_(BBS_door)

i used to rule in that game

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Saturday, 17 March 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

neuromancer/gibson references

― W i l l, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

+++ATH0

― modestmickey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

good link: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/161#comment-5160

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

FILE_ID.DIZ

― modestmickey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

L.O.R.D. OTM!!!

― modestmickey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

definitely not on every BBS, but on some... DOOM 4 way multiplayer! so ahead of the times

― modestmickey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

defacto2.net for reminiscing about BBS warez scene (i was not involved in this)

― modestmickey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

being too young to grok fidonet

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Clunky, unreliable workaround for accessing actual Internet functions (Usenet, email) through doors.

Arrangements made for Doom multiplayer via local modem phone-call.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

There were also lots of really, really boring things on BBS: gardening, astronomy, model planes, winemaking kits ... in short all those hobbies for smart people that are now completely beyond the pale.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

gardening is completely beyond the pale?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

actually all those things sound good

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

i mean who wouldn't like to gaze up at the stars while sipping on their own vino? in the middle of a lush garden you made? while a model plane, uh... zips around your head?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

Did we mention xmodem, ymodem, and eventually the ubiquitous zmodem?

― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

Kirk vs Picard

― Øystein, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

local dorks meeting up and banging

maybe that was just BBSes in greeley, CO

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

I remember at midnight every night two local BBSes joined up for like 2 hours ONLY so you can have a chatroom WITH 6 WHOLE PEOPLE

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

- Incredible save games of Wolfenstein 3D
- MEGABYTES of Pamela Anderson, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford gifs and jpg's

And yes, very much also...
warez/codez/hack/phreak/virus

^^ this!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

And, later in the lifespans, Jenny Mccarthy pics. Ew.

― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

some sketchy ASCII diagram and instructions to make some sort of coloured box to get you free phone calls.

(but only in the US)

― rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

Did we mention xmodem, ymodem, and eventually the ubiquitous zmodem?

Don't forget Kermit.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

Nethack

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

Teleconference

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Fights between US Robotics and Telebit users.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Forum Quickscan

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Issues of Phrack

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Entire contents of http://textfiles.com/directory.html

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

PPP/Winsock compatibility issues

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

-upload/download ratios

-spamming upload/download ratios by uploading stuff like all 4-5 disks of the Dark Forces demo in order to download more Sierra games/pr0n.

― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

Attack dialling

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/LegendOfTheRedDragon.gif

― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

Parents picking up the phone and their voice coming thru the on-board speaker to tell you to hang up so they can call your aunt

― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/modem/longest

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Entire contents of http://textfiles.com/directory.html

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 00:10

i love this

― rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

abbbs.txt 3491 All the secrets of Another Bloody BBS

Ahahahaha. That was the first BBS I ever used (for leeching, obv; the sysop went to great lengths to ignore me).

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Er, not first because it started in 1992. Hmm.

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.textfiles.com/sex/rectum.txt

(not NSFW, just hilarious and very appropriate to this thread)

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

Parents picking up the phone and their voice coming thru the on-board speaker to tell you to hang up so they can call your aunt

― Pizza Dalek in the Cult of Sbarro (kingfish), Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

LOL, so fucking OTM!

Nethack

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

You are wrong indeed! Nethack still lives, baby!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

1986-88 only: Parents picking up the phone downstairs and terminating your 300 baud acousticoupler connection

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

Haha! Incidentally does anyone still call BBS's anymore? There's still a few in existence... people dedicated to the retro computing cause still running BBS's off very old hardware and stuff.

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 25 June 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)

http://poorcoding.com/art/pub/screenshots/FonzoTerm-LORD.png

― Mordy, Thursday, 25 June 2015 18:53 (ten years ago)

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