Remember BBS days?

[Oyeve]

Remember when all we had were BBSes? Dial in at 2400 and chat for hours? Remember when there was a newbie on the chat room asking some stupid technical question and we would all say "In order to fix that hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete" and then laugh your ass off when you saw the message "NAME has left the board" because he/she rebooted the system without knowing? *sigh* things were simpler back then. I recollect because I found an old HD in my desk draw and slapped it into my system and it was my old 32 meg dos 6.0 system from back in the late 80s. In it I found all my old text logs from when I used to BBS and came across a bunch of gags we used to do. Like if you typed in another users name in the text area and hit the space bar a certain number of spaces and type in something inappropriate it would appear like that user wrote it and the sysop would kick him off.

 

[lebe0024]

OMG BBS were the BEST. I dialed in two places: Smart Stuff and The Black Hole. I used to play BBS games such as "food fight" and my favorite: Legend of the Red Dragon

 

[bandXtrb]

Awesome! I've done BBSing back in the day. I was never able to download much and I got kicked off because they didn't like my 2400 bps modem (14.4 was the standard at the time). I used to dial into AOL for DOS on 2400bps. It was slow, around 1 meg per hour or so. (So when I got a Pentium 120mhz computer with a 28.8 modem, all I could say was wow!)

I just picked up a working 80286 w/ 40meg drive and a 14" VGA monitor (With no screen defects) off the sidewalk, cleaned it up, and it works great. I'm thinking about doing something really interesting with it. It has ISA slots and I might be able to get a modem working in it.

 

[Eli]

I still logon to BBSes.

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[Czar]

HAHA I dialed in on 1200, beat that

Anyone remember Remote Access?, I printed out the complete manual and its few hundred pages.. I still have it somewhere.

 

[Eli]

I dialed up on 2400 back in the day.. Then I got a 9600.. Woo.. You couldn't read the text as it came up anymore. :Q

Dialup BBSes are virtually dead now though. It's just too expensive, and you don't make any money.. lol.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Ah, yes, I used to remember those days when I had to pay long-distance charges to dial into some BBS in Massachusetts to get the latest ARJ compression suite...at 2400 baud. I even remember visiting a "chat room" circa 1988 with a 300 baud modem. That was surreal "back then", almost made your heart skip a beat because it was so instantaneous. This is back in the day of 286s, so chat rooms were a real novelty.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

yep i remember those days...

i used to log into 2 using my 2400...ChatBBS (what an original name but we were all psyched cause 22 people could be on at once or something) and Lazer BBS (thats where we got our pictures from...oh and it only took like 20 minutes a picture)

 

[Jesta]

I dialed up on 2400 back in the day.. Then I got a 9600.. Woo.. You couldn't read the text as it came up anymore.

I got you beat Eli, I remember dialing into BBS's with my C64 on that big ugly 300baud modem. Life was so much easier back then

 

[Pepsi90919]

DOS 6.0 in the late 80's? are you on crack?

 

[Skel]

ah... good times, good times...

 

[Ultima]

I got into the BBS scene a couple years before it died... no scene was better for music and games before P2P networks came along I also loved playing those muds and "doors".. especiall LOTR. That kicked ass!

 

[Murphyrulez]

WWIV 4.12 was the bbs of the gods. Wayne released the source code when you registered the software ($55), so you could modify the heck out of it. Those boards were the best because they didn't fit the cookie cutter mold of the rest of the multi-line boards. I used to be sysop of The Arena of Pain in Hollywood, FL.... fun times

 

[bUnMaNGo]

<< WWIV 4.12 was the bbs of the gods. >>



No way... PCBoard all the way

 

[StageLeft]

Somebody needs to read this thread right now

 

[rudder]

<< WWIV 4.12 was the bbs of the gods. >>



No way... PCBoard all the way

No way, amiexpress on the amiga. Former Fairlight whq. Ha I tried to run a amiexpress look alike on a pc and everyone got pissed at me.

 

[Xenon14]

ROFL - Legend of the Dragon was awesome. I remember how I became powerful, and then I wouldn't beat the dragon. So i kept on killing and stealing from the less developed players. and the Trivia room was awesome too.

 

[Jejunum]

<< I used to play BBS games such as "food fight" and my favorite: Legend of the Red Dragon >>



oh my god those two were my favorite bbs games too...i love legend of hte red dragon (actually didnt remmeber the name until u said it)

i wanan play it soo bad!

 

[Jejunum]

wtf
telnet://fame.darktech.org

and entering the dragon game grrr

entered alias and it asks for confirmation...it hits (computer/keyboard WTF!) a . and then an enter

i wanna play!!!

 

[Pabster]

WWIV was the biggest PoS ever. And right behind it, PCBored.

Wildcat! ruled the house

And yes, I do miss those days. I still remember the extreme excitement when I popped a shiny new 14.4K modem in...

 

[bozo1]

Jesus - I remember racking up hundreds of dollar charges on Compu$erve. $12.95/hour for 300-1200bps, $22.80 for 2400bps. Hit $950 one month! :disgust:

And yea, Wildcat! rocked - I ran a two-line board for a few years, Desqview to multitask.

 

[rudder]

I still remember the extreme excitement when I popped a shiny new 14.4K modem in...

My 14.4k was an external. Cost around $640. Had to have it though! The crappy thing now is I connect from home at 28.8k... a little over 13 years later. CPU speeds doubled like 50 times, but I am still stuck at 28.8! Actually I am too cheap to get directdsl since most of my downloading needs can be satisfied at work.

 

[MikeO]

Yeah I remember the days... when I got my first phone bill ~$1000 and by dad almost killed me. I survived but my modem didn't... he smashed it in pieces

 

[TreyRandom]

I dialed into Compu$erve at 300 baud from my Commodore 64 way back in the early 80's and paid anywhere from $6-$12.95/hr. Not easy when you're a teenager. Luckily they came up with an "unlimited chat" plan. For $80 plus 30 cents per hour, you could hang out on the chat channels.

From '84 to '87 I ran a 1200 baud BBS called Dreamscape. 320 users, so I had most every user in Nashville at the time. Was running C-Net 9.0 (or was it 10.0 by that time?) on my Commodore 128. Anyone remember the C-Net based boards? We're talkin OLD time.

After that, I got addicted to QuantumLink (QLink), then PlayNET, and became a room moderator. Much cheaper than C$, especially with my moderator "free" time. Then PlayNet went under, the rights purchased by QLink.

How many people know that AOL has it's roots in QLink? When QuantumLink spawned AOL (and QLink later died off), I knew it was an Evil Force. From AOL's beginning, it had nothing but noobs that didn't know what a function key was. Things haven't changed, or rather, they haven't gotten better.

Know why AOL names are restricted to 10 characters? PlayNET's architecture (which was converted for AOL use) only allowed 10 character names because they wanted to fit 4 names on a 40-character line, which is what the Commodore 64 used. They never changed it, or if they have by now, it wasn't changed for YEARS.

While the Internet was growing in the early-mid 90's, I hung out on and beta tested for Sierra Online/The Sierra Network (later the ImagiNation Network). It was great... till AOL bought them out and it decayed into nothingness within weeks.