ANSI art bbs ad found inside of STNT11.ZIP - Stunts v1.1, as released by an unknown piracy group
ANSI art bbs ad found inside of STNT11.ZIP - Stunts v1.1, as released by an unknown piracy group
growing up on the internet story time
when i was 14 years old, i made my first homepage using my mom's university shell/webspace allotment (5 megs) which was supposed to be for posting homework and email storage
there was no such thing as a profile pic in 94, but i decided that i should have a photo of me at the top of the page. i inexplicably decided that instead of scanning in a school photo, it made more sense to post a gif of some kid i found on a bbs with Night Owl cd-roms. today, i found that exact photo - it is uncredited sadly - just "boy eating watermelon"
for my bio, instead of writing about my hobbies and interests, i proceeded to fabricate an entire identity that claimed i was the captain of the volleyball team, a straight-A student, and one of the coolest kids in my school. 0/3 of those things were even close to reality. i figured - hey, who cares? no one's ever gonna see this.
a year later, my junior high school got its first internet connection - a 28.8k modem shared among 20 macintosh LC's in the lab. my computer ("information processing") teacher decided that our class should learn how to make a web page as a unit project.
i told him that i had already made a homepage ages ago, and wanted to submit that as my final assignment so i could go play Bolo instead. he asked me to show him the site.
the entire class crowded around my monitor as it loaded the page a few bytes at a time. i was feeling pretty smug until i saw the straw hat, and realized that the bio was pure bullshit. i tried to turn off the monitor but it was too late - 20 kids and my teacher got to read how this bony kid in front of them was apparently a world class athlete, One Of The Cool Kids, and future valedictorian.
i deleted the entire site the second i got home
Lovely video from The Serial Port on getting PC based Impulse #bbs software up and running in 2025 <3 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYAEtwE8Es
Called dibs on "NecroNeon BBS" https://github.com/deadbeefmonster/NecroNeon_BBS
"Gothic Horror Themed BBS With Neon Highlights"
Will be a learning experience.
Hey, I'm chasing that early computing life I wasn't able to have myself and was fascinated by, and ultimately what got me into computing and keeps me in computing.
Not ashamed to admit it.
- Working on learning to code #C64 assembly and #8BitComputing in general.
- Working on learning exactly all a #BBS actually is and coding one.
- Reusing existing skillsets for coding/sysadmin/dba/hacker for it, but in this origin story #nostalgia I never got in its entirety.
I saw a tape deck at a 2nd hand store the other day and was reminded of a math teacher showing me it could be used for data storage with computers.
I also feel fortunate that at this stage in my life I'm secure in my career (as much as I can be anyway), so I can relax a little on the hustle of skill improvement solely for work and all that.
The original text from BBS's that changed me, the one true religion:
http://www.textfiles.com/occult/ERIS/principi.a
Nicer book version with art from Loompanics:
https://mdhughes.tech/principiadiscordia/
Has anyone read "Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie" && what is your opinion?
https://www.amazon.com/Commodork-Sordid-Tales-Bbs-Junkie/dp/1847285821
Holy shit!
TIL that the BBS software that I used to run is still in development and still in use!
Hey #GenX. Remember when calling a BBS in a nearby area code resulted in $100s in long distance charges - giving rise to carriers like Sprint & MCI?
I once called a #BBS in my own area code thinking it was local & my Dad got a $500 #longdistance bill.
Been working on the title screen for "Cloudburst Connection", my BBS themed adventure RPG (build your BBS, call others, talk with your callers - even solve a mystery!). Obviously lots of in-game ANSI screens when calling boards, but decided to also go the ANSI route for the title screen too! Still needs some tweaks but getting there!
I just saw this site dedicated to BBS games & OMG all the ANSI & 80 line text made me squeee with delight.
A-Net Online BBS
https://a-net-online.lol/gameserver/index.xjs
#GenX #BBS
@MrGR widerspricht zwar meiner Erfahrung aber :okay: :cool:…
Für Vereine und Organisationen gibt's mit @delta / #deltaChat & @zulip / #Zulip sowie @RocketChat / #RocketChat passendere Optionen die auch entsprechende Administration und Archivierung erlauben.
Zulip unterstützt asynchrone Themensortierung exzellent.
RocketChat is ne weitere okay Option...
Nach der gleichen Logik würden wir alle immernoch nur #Gopher, #BBS und #IRC nutzen!
The cake is not a lie.
Happy Birthday https://sdf.org !
On this day June 16th in 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller. Happy 38th to the https://sdf.org community!
Five GLORIOUS hours documenting the history of the ol' BBS days... from FIDO/PC Board to transfer protocols to ANSI art to PCTalk to Procomm & more!
(I also have a separate clip re: battle between PKZIP vs ARC!)
BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI&si=Cfo9BVUVD_3mI4zk
#bbs #documentary #genx
Saw that @amigalove tried to login and couldn't because he hadn't called in over 300 days :) I had the threshold set a bit lower than normal because at the time, we had maxed out our userbase of 999 users. Those days are gone I believe, and I've increased it to 2 years. That should help but you still gotta re-register @amigalove ... :) #bbs #commodore
FidoNet: первая свободная сеть
На связи Аеза и сегодня мы хотели бы вспомнить замечательную сеть FidoNet, когда-то объединившую энтузиастов по всему миру. В предыдущей статье мы вспоминали компьютер ZX-Spectrum, историю его создания и вторую жизнь в СССР. В этой статье мы также поговорим о том, как и кем изначально создавалась эта сеть и как затем она развивалась в России. Да, для многих современных айтишников FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) ассоциируется исключительно со стандартами аутентификации. Но в прежние времена, когда над вопросами аутентификации в глобальной сети еще никто даже не задумывался, существовала сеть FidoNet и вот об этом и будет наш сегодняшний рассказ.
There wasn't yet a right-click copy-and-paste mouse feature. Which can be disconcerting today, haha.
I still use it several times a week because I like browsing bulletin boards from MSDOS. And doing it from Windows 3.1 allows me to switch from MSDOS to Windows at any time to take notes, for example. Or play Zork, Nethack, etc..
Windows 3.1: launching it today (in 5s!), the essentials are still there! :0)
After 12 years, new official release of the Ice-T VT100 terminal emulator for #Atari8bit computers https://github.com/itaych/Ice-T #atari #bbs