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Pre-internet BBS folks

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My brother and I used to run The Darque Side of the Moon BBS in the Bay Area back in the '80s, which was both a BBS and an Ascii Express line (remember those?). We used to collect all those stupid textfiles on hacking, phone phreaking, and other random crap.
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
My brother and I used to run The Darque Side of the Moon BBS in the Bay Area back in the '80s, which was both a BBS and an Ascii Express line (remember those?). We used to collect all those stupid textfiles on hacking, phone phreaking, and other random crap.
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Nice! I remember those files. I printed out the "How to make bombs" text file and gave it to a friend. He accidentally left it on his other friend porch and the kid's parents found it and thought it was a death threat.

I totally forgot about the "proving yourself" part of BBSs. You would sign in and check in each day to see if the sysop had ok'd your account. Then you could only download if you had enough credits from uploading.

Man I miss those days. 2400 baud was the bomb. AT strings FTW
 
I remember going to the public library and logging onto some BBS and wondering how the f*ck to use it. Then i'd get kicked off by some BBS admin for violating their rules or whatever.

I really have no idea wtf that was. Thank god those times are long gone.
 
Too many to share...

I still logon to BBSes, mostly to play a MUD that I've been playing for the last 11 years.
 
Can any of you remember the name of some of the more popular mid-late 80s BBS software? I used to run one with a friend of mine and cannot remember what the software was called.
 
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Can any of you remember the name of some of the more popular mid-late 80s BBS software? I used to run one with a friend of mine and cannot remember what the software was called.
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There were dozens. I think I changed software 5-6 times, I want to say that the last 2 I used were Remote Access and QuickBBS.

I still have a few copies of computer shopper (when it was phone book sized) with my BBS listed in them.
 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
the last time I dialed into a BBS was back in 1985 on my C64 with a 300 baud modem that was overclocked to 450 baud. I was bad ass even back then.
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I hear ya brotha! 😉
 
Playing MUDs (Legends of the Red Dragon...) and learning cool hacks.

Also, being the "in" crowd for the newest releases of software. That was a long time ago.
 
I ran a BBS way back during the Amiga days. I remember I got a call from At&T saying I owed them $30,000 for fraudulent calls made to my BBS. I do not know how it happened but apparently some cracking group in Europe was using my BBS to distribute Amiga warez.
 
I ran a 3 line TriBBS board here in Tampa. Had all of those door games (lemonade Stand!), a LOT of shareware, and a lot of pr0n too. I axctually paid my phone line charges with pr0n subs. I had a pretty intesive adult sign up, I'm sure that slowed me down.

I had a full tower w/6 Mitsumi 2x CDROMs, and 2 6-disc Nakamichi SCSI disk changers, a lot back then.

USR Courier External FTW! 😀

 
I ran a Commodore 64 BBS from my bedroom back in the 80's.

Got in alot of trouble for credit card, telephone and computer fraud. Turns out I was responsible for what other people posted on my BBS. Fortunately I was under 18 at the time.
 
I still play some games on BBS's. From one of the earlier post someone mentioned Syncronet for telnetable BBS software. Got all my favorite door games like, Baron/Solar Realms Elite (BRE and SRE), Kannons and Katapults, Usurper, L.O.R.D, Food Fight and of course Tradewars. You can find a list of BBS's still to this day by googling "BBS telnet". Good times...

The only board that I can still remember the name of that I was on was Westphalia, a small 2 line BBS in central VA. There were about 5 that I regularly signed onto from 2400 to 56K. My V.Everything kicked @ss!
 
I played The Pit religiously every day. I found a cheat that would allow a beginning player to kill virtually any other player, no matter what their level was or how good their weapons and armor were. I think I made a lot of people in my region really mad. Good times.
 
C-Net bbs's on the old c64 , moving from 300bps to 1200bps was heaven, many huge phone bills...ah the memories
 
Cant remember the BBS's my friend and I logged into in the late 80's, but one in Chicago always had the latest Eagle Soft cracked games for the Commodore.

The day we got Phantasie II & III in a single session. I slept maybe 2 hours that weekend. Ahh the memories of an RPG nerd.
 
Originally posted by: kt
Food fight! God, I love that game along with Global War, Red Dragon, and Tradewars.
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Food fight is one I remember, there were others but food fight sticks out in my head.

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Can any of you remember the name of some of the more popular mid-late 80s BBS software? I used to run one with a friend of mine and cannot remember what the software was called.
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the only one I recall right now was called wildcat I believe.
 
Yeah, LORD was like the BBS equivalent of WoW...I would join multiple BBS's to be able to play more than the standard X actions per day. That and the Pit...killing other people online was just great.
 
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