Why did scene BBS' in the 90s have the best names. Favorite

>>55968656
Why don't BBSes still exist?

>>55968679
I'll host one if you want anon

>>55968679
You're on one right now. Also I heard the local BBS from the 90s is still active round here.

>>55968679
my guess, baby millenials skipping BBS tech.

I would literally kill for a return to BBS' hubs. Topsites are not the same, and the ascii art is always lacking. ( rarely ansi )

>>55968679
Phone calls are way more expensive than a regular Internet connection.

>>55968656

I found a write up on the early New Zealand BBS scene that brought back some memories

http://www.codetapper.com/amiga/random-rants/auckland-bulletin-board-systems/

>>55968722
>millennial complaining about millennials
>can't spell millennial
Every single time.

>>55968809

I took my first breath in the 70's. I'm comfortable misspelling the world, I feel it's not "my word", but I'll recognize your correction

>>55968852
Ok loser.

>>55968907

sticks and stones

>>55968711
That's nice of you, anon.

These BBSes are pretty damn cool.

My childhood BBS is still online. It's an Amiga hooked to some kind of Amiga modem to Ethernet device, so these days you telnet into it. People on Facebook tried to get people to start using it, but it's 1992 tech in 2016, it's just not useful.

>>55969139

cool, is it running Ami-Express?

>>55968656
>Bitstream Underground

>>55969139
>it's 1992 tech in 2016, it's just not useful.
Sure it does, it's a localized form of social media. That's great.

>>55969240

nice, sounds cool AF

>>55969322

I'm all for this.

>>55969139
Open it to the amateur radio crowd.

reminder that kim dot com Mega was an FBI snitch under the handle kimble who shut down BBS and attempted to entrap sceners for using sprint calling cards, after he got caught as a teenager.

>>55969459
Mr. Dotcom has lived a colorful life.
There is about 2,000 stories of him being a piece of shit.

Never hear the same one twice.

>>55969459
Who cares?

>>55969569

the latest that gave me a chuckle. ( not so new ) his first and only wife cucked him for the baby sitter

it's 2016, not even 2006, and certainly not 1996 (any 1986 shits want to raise their poop covered hands?), so it doesn't matter if it did or did not have the best names.

Did you know that certain amish use smartphones and the internet as long as it's to make money? So we have actual "luddites" who are more tech savvy than your typical "computer historian" or whatever the fuck you call yourselves where you've been fighting everything made after 2008.

Get with the times, your circlejerks ended two decades ago.

>hurr telling us what to do
Ok sure, old computer threads go like this:
>remember this stupid shit from the 90s
>yup, remember this other old piece of shit
>no
>KID KID KID KID
>hey guys, if you don't think the internet turn to SHIT at this date:
>1985, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2018, 2020
>then ur a KID KID KID
these threads end in age segregation and while your rebuttal will instantly be "go back to your smartphone thread kid", ironically more actually goes ON in those smartphone threads than your same 5-10 nostalgia pics posted over and over and over again. There is literally NOTHING said in any IRC anymore, BBS, and any thread like this.

>>55969697
Rude

>>55969697

there is nothing said in IRC anymore. Wrong.

I understand your point, drop old networks, embrace new, however, IRC is not dead.

Lets not make this a CD vs Vinyl narrative.

To understand the future you must understand the past - some guy

>>55969794
>drop old networks, embrace new
There's usually no reason the two can't coexist.

>>55969800


Whats law and orders focus, www, torrents, tor, against crackers, pedos, terrorists

I just want to chill away from that, irc, usenet, bbs, its comfy

>>55969794
That guy was krut cobain

As someone who missed out on BBS stuff, can someone please explain what it was like?

>>55969981

login in handle:
pw:

set user account with privileges ranging from low ratio ul/dl to unlimited

different sections for warez, porn, HPA stuff

thriving ascii art headers. Art work would often change on the more elite bbs

forum and private messaging

for more public doman boards, online games

sharing bants with the sysop over online chat

landline tied up 24/7 :)

>>55970068
>no lamers

for the more closed boards, everyone was an enthusiast, no spoonfeeding, all members have different skills to bring to the table

>>55968711
arent there any exploits to those old programs?

>>55970202

Amiexpress has some bugs and I remember cracked versions having backdoors to admin priv

I would speculate the last run versions would be secure enough since it was run by easily 10's of thousands of sysops if not 100s of thousands

>>55970234
* globally

>>55968711
So where is it?

>>55970253

For every 3 million citizens, you'd be looking at over 500 scene BBS in the 90s across platforms by rough estimation

>>55970304

that kind of ratio t b h

>>55970304
I assume you meant to reply to someone else.

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>>55968656

>feeling nostalgic for something you didn't experience

>back in the bad old days
>would have phreaked every payphone in existence to get enough quarters to buy something as blinding fast as a 56k modem
>cruise around some BBSs
>stumble across some neat stuff
>few places where original edgelords discuss culture jamming, random anarchist stuff
>some groups talk about all the zero day exploits in various computer systems they know of
>stuff used by banks, some super old school security systems, TV station broadcast controls that could take phone commands to switch cameras for some reason
>stumble across one fairly popular discussion
>few handfuls of replies in a day
>there is 3kb of text uploaded
>have a dodgy connection so it won't open fully, have to try to reload a few times
>watch the bytes trickle in
>finally get it
>ASCII porn in the header
>body of text is some paranoid rantings about future predictions, HIV being used to kill off all the poor people, Republicans merging with computer systems to rule the world, the government can listen to you by pointing a laser at your window, and there are lasers inside of TV screens
>read the whole thing
>felt like a bad ass

If you want to relive what this felt like go to textfiles.com, start reading through shit, and pretend like you're one of the only people in the world to have seen this sacred arcane knowledge. Thats what it was like.

>>55970992
So pretty much exactly like the internet today, but with less commercialism.

>>55968907
>>55968852
>>55968809
>2016
>reading responses.

>>55971015
Things were hard to find, and only the highly motivated could find them. The average person wasn't aware of internet communication. It was a select handful of the tech savvy, normies never would have dreamed of wasting their time on it.
It was like trespassing. There was a slight air of danger, an understanding that you were doing something others didn't do, something that might not be legal. You were the proverbial cat burglar slinking around an empty building at night, rifling through a file cabinet, looking over your shoulder.

The internet now is an open and mundane thing. There is no mystery to it, and normal people are in every corner, shitting it up. Children are just about everywhere posting openly with no regard to privacy, decorum, or basic net literacy. Its like walking through the food court of a shopping mall during business hours. Who the fuck cares if you're there with a million other people?

>>55968679
they still exist, the cyberpunk general uses them sometimes.

>>55968656
OMG I just dug up my stack of USR Courier V.Everything modems a few weeks ago, too. Nice choice of an image to post, OP...

Ah I miss those days. I used to run a BBS with a whopping TWO lines and three 6 CD carousel CDROM's. Had one of the libraries filled with NightOwl CD's, another with SimtelNet, and the third with misc stuff.

Other than my own BBS (which had two phases; one I ran TAG, and the other Renegade. I tried PCBoard at one point, but wasn't fond of it).

Other than my BBS, and a couple locals (Memory Prime and Disk Mania), I was a member of The Hell Pit.

Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

>>55969697
the nostalgia for me is the fact that people like you really didnt really exist online back then for the most part. to even get online and post you had to know how to use a computer.

now someone like you can bounce their face off a keyboard and hit send. even the trolls were witty and funny, now its copy paste 12 year olds on bath salts lel

>>55971370
> clicking internet explorer or iexplorer.exe in msdos was hard
> hurr only the master elites could do it hurrr

>>55971383
case in point

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>>55968679
There's still tons, just way less than in the 80s/90s. As well, most go over telnet now rather than dialins. Google for local bbs listings, or for ones globally.

>>55970825

Canyou tell me the hotkeys for U.A.D? No, I didn't think so...

>>55970992

used audio jacks out of my amiga to my sony walkman, killing time on a payphone, jamaican party, with my irish and aussie bros, who i'd never met face to face, in the city. i did it for free.

>>55971541
* jamaican party line

>>55969322
It's alao (excluding ansi/ascii art and other general graphics) a form of social media/interaction and file sharing that doesn't have ads, tracking, or an overload of fucking data/webpages... I guess.

>>55971624

So true. The only shilling was for sprint calling cards and CCs. I was just a warez guy. A courier. This is my story.

>>55969862
I'm all for this too. The text/ascii graphical environments (not familiar too much with usenet) are minimal, quick, and very comfy, especially IRC... at least when it's active.

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>>55970144
Sorta the same with priv trackers... almost. At least good ones give a shit about having good users (ie. BTN).

every one had a job

You could code? Cool, make some cool BBS plug ins
Make a group demo
You like music? Cool, fire up octomed
Enthusiast with money in the bank? Nice, buy a 100MB HD and wack some phone lines in
Can access games? Supplier
Trader? Courier
Artist, good make some logos, make a nice nfo

Everyone had a purpose under a banner

I notice TRSI pre'ing wii stuff. That took me back. Especially anyone that remembers TRSI megademo.

They basically span from c64 -> 2016 now. Well done, boys.

>>55971751

gotta fix that

Red Sector MEgademo ( before they merged with Tristar )

https://youtu.be/e9zDWgeV8zY

How do I read a specific message thread and reply to it with quotes?

>>55971202
How did the 2 lines work? Literally 2 phone lines? Wouldn't that give 2 different phone numbers to dial into?

>>55972063
FIRST ONE TO EVER HAVE A FAMILY PLAN ALL TO HIMSELF.

2PHONESHAWTY.

>>55971650
Please tell more. I was "with it" back in 2011/12, but I was always curious about racing back in the BBS days, especially given the massive number of warez boards out there. What was it like for you?

>>55972089

I had to stop because a guy snitched on me when he got taken down, but i was a minor so untouchable.

But for that time. A lot fo friendships with international guys. killing hours on the phone talking shit.

playing games 0 day

reading HPA and feeling like a bad ass

cosysoped 3 BBS ( no locals ) , but i was local

mainly great friendships. I got kicked out of home at 16 and one of my scene friends let me stay at his flat for like 6 months

Also tyhe stereotypes didnt apply. A bunch of my scene friends were skaters, vegans, into beastie boys n shit as well as phreaking, coding, blueboxing.

its sounds sad, but it was a real time to be alive.

>>55969981
fat neckbeards of the 80s anti-social network where they "join" and then idle for 15+ years thinking that this makes them fit in and now claim it's some lost golden internet age but can't admit it's been two decades of selective bad-memory-removal and was shit the entire time.

go watch bbs the documentary, explains it perfectly.
>episode one: this is what bbses were like, we're all kind of losers tho haha (FILMED 100% FROM BASEMENTS)
>episode 2-8: I'M A PIECE OF SHIT BUT I'M FUCKING BETTER THAN YOU!

>>55968715
this is right, they evolved into forums and imageboards. Saying this causes BBS turds to go apeshit every time because it doesn't have shitty ascii "art" (instead it has this newfangled thing called a JAYPEG) and an interface that isn't shit on purpose and more than 8 users total. The common way they pretend to refute this is by saying modern evolutions don't have any "soul" (it isn't shit).

>>55972063

Yes. A line 1, and a line 2. ( with 2 modems ofcourse )

>>55972184
It was funny because the internet was almost an extension of real life vs today where it's almost an entirely separate place, socially.

>>55972210

this is wrong. Alot of my scene friends were skaters with girl friends who loved computers phreaking and coding, and their GFs would complain. You are wrong.

>>55972089
>please tell me only the positive things that you remember and conveniently leave out all the bad things

>>55972184
>feeling like a bad ass
key words "feeling"

>it sounds sad
Maybe it sounds sad because it actually was

>>55972239
they were NEEt tho, but they'd go skate every day

>>55969981
Pretty much what it's like now:
>friday
>stay in
>hate self
>play with machine to forget misery
>talk with others to forget virgin at 30

>>55972296

This wrong.

First BBS I ever dialled into was Slamdance Central sysop'd by Stussy

He was a skater. It wasn't a 0 day board, probably 5 day.

He was no neckbeard. His GF was a nurse, if I remember correctly.

This neckbeard sterotype has got to go

telnet pharcyde.org

Enjoy, /g/. It's quite active.

>>55972618
Does not play nice with terminal.app

>>55968656
>a bunch of namefag edgelords and neckbeards circlejerking

so what we're doing right now then.

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>>55971751
Holy shit, you weren't kidding. This is the same TRSI from the 80s, right? Or 90s even, god they're old as fuck.

>>55972817

from the 80s, yea.

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>>55972218
Right, but how did you ensure that 2 numbers pointed to the same BBS? Could you mix them together so it's just one number, but 2 lines?

I'm also confused as to like... if someone calls into the BBS on one line, is that line basically full? Nobody else can connect? So then how could people chat and stuff if there was 1 line, or even 2? You'd basically need like... 3-4 lines, in that situation, to get any sort of real "activity".

Did they basically just have lots of lines and modems...?

>>55972839
the lines would be seperate with seperate numbers, or they called them nodes. Generally both numbers would be listed on BBS nfo tags. or node 1 for new uer or lopw ratio usert and node 2: private , for couriers.

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Is there a Telnet/BBS client for Android, or what's the protocol I'd have to use to call into one on my phone? I think that'd be neat, just leaving messages while on the go. Combine the old with the new.

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>>55972287
At least they went outside, unlike you.

>>55972296
>Friday
>Stay in
>Play games on PC because I've worked all week and now I can really just relax without having work the next day
>Do WEBRips and other shit to upload
>Organize DOS games and other stuff I've downloaded

Feels good to just chill on a Friday on my PC, doing whatever work/organizing/gaming I want.

>>55972874
You either telnet or use a modem, I think most could telnet now.

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>>55972833
Wew lad, and they're STILL active today. Then again, R1911 is..? For the most part? And I'd imagine there's other groups that took breaks and stuff. Just neat to see. Pretty sure 8088 is totally dead, one of the earliest groups.

Oldest entry that Layer13 has for TRSI is for 1992, which is odd.

The earliest release I have for TRSI is Cruise_For_a_Corpse_English_256_Colour-TRSI, which was PRE'd 13/07/1992, according to the NFO, with Die Hard II being listed as 01/07/1992 in their NFO.

Wiki lists their demogroup/I guess TRSI as 1990, but RSI as 1985.

>>55972743
Get syncterm, looks great here, pic related. Loads of ANSI art follows that screen.

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>>55972861
That's what I was thinking. You have a public line, and a private. One for racers, the other for whoever else. But still, the issue persisted then of only one person per line being able to chat/whatever?

>>55972946
Right, so I can just telnet from my phone then with a Linux shell terminal? I'm more wondering if maybe there's a dedicated app to properly show images and stuff.

>>55973059
>>55972946
Right, I'm daft, just use Connectbot.

>>55973059

yup. for a 2 line set up. max 2 users at any given time. if a racer needed a free line for something special, he'd call the sysop and line 1 low rank user would get booted.

>>55973117

if line 2 was tied up already. Not an everyday occurance, but would happen

>>55973059
sysop could chat with both users, individually, by breaking into their session in chatmode. this would not affect UL's or DL'

>>55973006

Yea, i goofed by not taking into account red sector released things first, then merged with Tristar to become TRSI. My bad on that.

The Red Sector megademo blew my mind back in the day, and predates TRSI, tho essentially Red Sector is half of TRSI.

>>55973006
>Get syncterm, looks great here, pic related. Loads of ANSI art follows that screen.
Neat, I'll try that. Are you on pharcyde?

>>55973233
Everyone in this thread is already on 4chan. Why'd you come to 4chan to join some shitty circlejerk namefag psuedo-forum? You are already here, you can already talk to everyone.

>>55973526
Maybe to have a reliable place where he can find, interact, and keep up with like-minded people regarding this subject? Instead of making a thread on 4chan and hoping any number of them find it and reply to it.

>>55973576
agree. threads are transient. I'd chill on a hub quite happily with other old schoolers who arent snitches

>>55973526
fuck off

>>55973526
Fuck off

>>55973576

Yes, we call these sorts of things "circlejerks". Reddit would probably be more your thing.

I've been on /g/ for over 6 years and seen this BBS circlejerk repeat itself every 8 months. Sometimes it's a lot at once, sometimes it gets nasty where they viciously post "NOTHING PAST 2000 TECH IN THIS THREAD" for weeks as they secretly want young people to show up so they can hate on them.

Always ends the same way, only difference is the time it takes to get to the end. The way it ends is that someone either makes or finds some shitty BBS, then they e-lock the virtual doors and it becomes a private circlejerk. I've seen this happen on /g/ where there were at least 15 people involved in it, and they disappeared overnight once the link was posted. Once you join one of these, there's no turning back as you'll start to drone everything out, then people will start to drop off the private club and there will be nobody left either in the BBS or the rest of the world that you can talk to.

>>55973611
Just out of curiosity, would you accept anyone young in your soon to be private club, if they had an appreciation for old tech? How do you tell the age of someone online if they just idle, you have to be sure that nobody young and therefore shit infiltrates the club so it can truly be a place full of people who are full of shit... I mean who get it.

>>55973742

I don't really know how to answer your question. I don't have a private club, but to use the same approach as then. Someone either was involved in the era. or. can bring something to the table and know people / interest in the history. My answer is imagined, but if the most some one can bring is, i'm a private torrent user, then thats not much. contemporary h/p is still interesting.

>>55973742
I really don't understand what your rant is about.

>>55973795

I'll say for a fact, there's a large grouip of topsite users and racers who simply weren't involved in bbs yet consider it the roots of their contemporary scene and don't shit on it with old man grandpa comments because what they have, the lineage , would not be the same if it werent for the start, and what they know now would also be different.

>>55973742

additional to this. there are groups actively looking for suppliers. there are shortage of suppliers. If someone is really enthusiatic, reach out to a group looking for a supplier and sink the time in and deliver without drama. Nothing is overnight.

>>55973922
get a job as a warehouse hand @ s0ny or something idk. always ways and means to deliver.

>>55973960

I know a w/h manager, with no computer interest, who literally damages jewel cases on new releases and takes them home for herself, and she's a normie.

because they cam from an era of enriched gene-stock. Now we have all these pissant halflings trodding about with about as much creativity as a rock. Try harder.

>>55968722
>>55968809
>>55968852
By the way, how are you guys going to hate on the Alpha generation? That's actually what the next one is being called. Although some have marked this starting as being born in 2010, nobody cares yet because they're all 6, and as we all know, children are perfect little angels until they become teenagers. How are you going to spin the word "Alpha" to be a bad thing? Good news is that "Beta" must be next and that won't be hard. Millennial is the current "four letter word", but beta is nice and already four letters for you, isn't that nice. In 2023 though, the alphas will be teenagers, so you had best be prepared by that time with shitty names and memes about them. (Omega is actually the "worst" and last but you don't really know about this because you keep repeating memes about beta/millennials.) Hopefully by that time this job will be taken up by the Alphas who will come up with a shitty name for betas on your behalf.

By the way, for the 70s guy, some really old people move the goalposts and say "you have to have at least been a 25 year old adult before the cutoff date instead of just being born" so if you were born in the late 70s, some people would still call you a millennial.

>>55974052
>By the way, how are you guys going to hate on the Alpha generation?
Why would I? Do you think I hate on millennials? I am one.

>>55974028

even couriers back in the day had to sink in time. Mail couriers, sending countless parcels out and receiving. Now racing is scripted, the only time invested is setting up a prebuilt script to race. Even that, really, is not skills or dedication.

>>55974064
>Mail couriers, sending countless parcels out and receiving. Now racing is scripted
What does this all mean?

>>55974052

Yea. I undertand with the shifting definition of millenial. It's a shit banner t b h as it is somehow meant to cover pole opposties of people. from late 70s to early 90s. shit, couyld it be any wider.

>>55974071

when bbs were really young, speeds 300 baud and below, groups also traded warez by post.

>>55974084
It's from 1980-2000, moron. Some put it as 1983-2000.

>>55974125

So a 33 year old and a 16 year old are the same era. One's a new dad and the other got his first pubic hair 4 years before. That's why consolidating under one banner doesn't work.

>>55974125
>>55974084
Nobody can put an exact date on generations after boomers because boomers started the age meme. Go to any site and Baby Boomers are always set in stone, 1946 to 1964, always.

Ask a group of people about the 70s guy, and if he's on the magic number of 1975. Throw in a young person who would consult the internet, and he'd say X. But get a slightly older person who moves the goalposts and he could say "you have to have been an adult BEFORE the year of the made up generation", he'd then put the 70s guy in Y. Again get an even older person and say some shit like "you aren't an adult unless you're 25" and going by the same rule, the 70s guy could be Gen X, Y, and Z or as I've recently taken to calling them, millennials.

When the alpha generation hits its teen years, that 25 year old adult figure will change and you'll see 50 year olds in 2025 being called milennials. Generations are all made up by old people, if you would go outside you would find that people are born every day and having a label for a certain couple of decades is quite functionally retarded.

>>55974186

In Australia the working retirement age will be raised to 70 by 2035. People will just die before they retire.

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>>55974151
>>55974125
Here's an official (shit) looking (shit) label shit chart to help you out wade through the shit.

Where is Gen Y?

They have been eliminated because old people want even more young people to call milennials and milennials therefore ate Generation Y so now this graph says post 1980. Again, in 10 years a new graph would say post 1970 once we use the alphas as a hate scapegoat.

don't forget the GREATEST GENERATION which calls itself that only because it fought WWII.

I hope you're beginning to see how literally quite all of this, start to finish, is total bullshit

>>55974242
almost 20 year gaps in some bands. How many marriages have 20 year age gaps. fuck all. I think that says it all.

>>55974242

infact off this chart, I'm gen X and my wife is a millenial. Different. Yet we both grew up watching the same series of transformers cartoons. Yes. It is bullshit.

Reading all of this it sounds like it was just the dark web of the 80s-90s

>>55968656
>1993+
>still using BBS

ez m8. blueboxing was still live in 94. analogue exchages were still a "thing" for international switch boards

>>55974242
welp, looks like 1979 is full, so you'll be born in 1980

>>55968679
4chans BBS had huge unsearchable threads full of spam and copy pasted cats saying something stupid

Other BBS I know have similar problems. Abandoned and full of shitposts

>>55971383
When you are at retarded you think internet explorer existed in msdos

>tricked the game by pressing play when it told you to rewind the cassette.
>you start on the next level

>>55973233
I am not, just found out about it today. Still goofing around with syncterm and bbs's in general.

>>55973195
No worriee yo. Per the mega demo, I tried it but... no idea how to work with it...

>>55973922
Well they ain't looking on BBSes, that's for sure. Not dissing, just like... I'd be extremely surprised if any group still used a BBS to chat or trade.

>>55974095
Wish I could do this/could've done this. Imagine getting floppies, or I guess just TB of stuff every month, and then sending back TB of stuff. Sneakernet/warez trading seems like a lot of fun.

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On thetopic of BBS's and textfiles, does anyone know where I can get a recently updated complete archive of the textfiles.com files? I emailed the admin but he hasn't responded a week later...

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>>55976753
I remember the good old days of lan parties where people just shared music.

Now people buy 256 GB laptops for a grand and don't even have an ethernet port on their notebook anymore. When you tell.

>>55977718
>and don't even have an ethernet port on their notebook anymore.
So? Most people don't use wired networking, anymore. In the case of my MacBook, it doesn't keep me tied to a GbE port, I can do 10GbE or even 20Gb with two 10G links aggregated. I couldn't push that from this machine, but I could get the link up.

>>55977772
Yeah and most people on earth are dumb, uneducated and poor.

So what's your point?

>>55977813
My point is the Thunderbolt is the future and I'd rather not have an integrated NIC.

>>55977831
>Thunderbolt party

>>55977864
Huh?

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>>55968715
I wouldn't say it's equivalent, especially since here's you just a random faceless anon in a world-wide sea. Local BBS stuff was more like a close-knit group, and you could even meet a lot of them in person. I used to attend 2600 meetings with some of them, and once a big picnic. There were also hardware swap meets, and i got to visit the home of some sysops (in one case I was giving them tons of warez, so it was faster to just go there than upload it). There was also cross-representation from other local scenes like tabletop gaming clubs, and the society for creative anachronisms. A lot of people also just wanted to hang out also.
Besides that, I think the text mode medium, and the use of much simpler computers makes for a totally different experience. On modern web you always have a dozen tabs open and as many various programs running, but with the old school BBS stuff you were totally focused on that one thing.

>>55969139
Sheeeeeeiiiiit! Amiga was the last good hobbyist computer, as far as I'm concerned.
The early Internet was ok, and learning the Unix, etc. But that's long since dead and replaced by corporate shits.

>>55968656
That sexy looking fucker makes me want to play the Night Rider Theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBP7xH348cI

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>>55976753
You didn't even have to mail stuff. It was pretty natural to just swap floppies with other kids at school (so long as they had same computer type as you). I was always getting new games every month or so in the 80's, just from that. I guess eventually someone in the circle had a modem or some method to get the new stuff flowing, but I never found out who or how.

&T represent

>>55969697
Ok, kid

>>55977864
Kek

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>>55980588
That system looks sick as fuck. Amstrad something?

Also yeah, I'd imagine that's how it was. Wish I knew some people with enough actual interest in trading warez and stuff, and especially moreso trading properly organized and catalogued ones, maintaining archives and nfo/sfv/file_id's.

Alas... too many normies...

>>55973006
The Pirates of the 777 seas are one of the oldest who are still active.

>>55982206
What's their rls handle? And what year did they start? Are they still doing PC stuff or did they branch out? Just curious, never heard of them...

>>55982605
Never heard of Razor 1911? They started in '85, probably the oldest ones who are still active.

>>55969697
I watched the Ferguson riots from links I got off of rizon(?) on a /cyb/ channel. There's plenty being said.

Mandatory viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B9EF89CE228ED0A

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>>55969697

>>55983627

dont know these guys but bookmarking. good to see a harely davidson lover in the hpa episode. noice.

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amigaaaaaaaa

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Ok we need a /g/ BBS.

>>55984667
with hpac and even one simple forum.

then lock it to spite crybabies just as anon predicted.

we could have a nice little side community that shares files and info without randumbs and distinctly different to ptg tier p2p plebs

yes?

>>55982649
I meant Pirates of the 777, but I guess you mean that they're R1911? I've definitely heard of R1911.

>>55984811
Can you transmit as fast as you can telnet? Or is it limited to dialup speeds, even if you telnet...'

Could you put in a system of 1 down/1 up, essentially credits? It'd help differ people from just leeching. I'd also possibly enforce a pre-year restriction for warez, might make finding older cool stuff. idk

nukebusters were a very early group in oceania, the earliest i remember on c64

porsche/nukebusters if you are out there, jump to this thread. be alive bro.

>>55984870
1:1 was the harshest ratio. im not sure the caps on telnet speed tho,

maybe a demo section where some of the more classic scene demos / intros can be held.

and a 0 day section, however does need to cover the totality of all pres' and ok with a short retention, even 7 day is cool, flush in, flush out

once its closed off its secured, a miniscule dot in an ocean of www and shit

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anyone who's interested in BBSing and hasn't seen all of the episodes of Jason Scott's BBS documentary should go see them ASAP:

https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

i was surprised to find my old Commodore 64 terminal disk from the early-to-mid-90s with a few long dead numbers hanging around in the dialer (pic related)

>>55985027
i never see demo pre and more, however, bbs times, they'd sit with the days releases, as would ascii collections

funny how that has changed and pre has become only warez and not self coded

>>55985047
disc media really went the distance, that data would be easily over a decade old, awesome

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>>55985071
Preing demos was never a thing, There were normally 2 groups under the same name. One did demoscene stuff, other did warez/cracks/etc.

>>55985027
>Classic scene demos
pouet pretty much has that covered, I mean... it'd be a bit redundant IMO.

Per the 0day, what were you thinking to store? Grab stuff coming out now, or like what? Yeah, 7 day in/out would be neat, but if it's stuff coming out today, I mean, there's priv trackers for that, or just pay someone for topaxx if you're balsy enough...

>>55985124
I have pic related i Need to dump, it's mostly games on top (and probably all copies), software on the bottom. 3.5's are all blank, but I'm just really nervous it's all trash... some of it is stuff from a local PC group back in the 80s.

>Ctrl + F
>No mention of &TOTSE
>No mention of NIRVANAnet

wat

>>55985178
>&TOTSE
>NIRVANAnet
>San Francisco Bay

Well there's your reason.

>>55985162

yea im confusing myself with the concept of scrolling down the days releases, remember all the file ids had room for a small ascii art and description.

0 day could be botted from ftp and purged end of week, maybe just console and games to contain the amounts

for demos, youre right, there are scene websites now, also the nointro movement killed off cracktros and intros etc

t b h id like to see intros become a second stand alone file in pres that dont color the release, but can be launched or deleted , the most recent intros i encountered, werent that recent, however, were on some ps3 releases, which would boot to intro after launching in multiman then press x to load game.

>>55985378
or we can all meet up on IRC

>>55985471
also works

>>55984667
I'll make the ANSI logo

>>55985721
ok cool. check out ascii gen if you havent, good tool

>>55975120
tablecat is a good meme and /prog/ was a quality BBS

>>55985471
>>55985487
>>55986107
I want in but the only thing I could provide is uploads like movies, music, ebooks, etc.

>>55986726

0 day? or in the realms 0-3 day?

>>55987134
Honestly is public trackers tier, maybe some is no longer seeded. But I do have hd, flac, and the ebook collection is well sorted. About 2tb of data.