SwampGas
09-01-2002, 12:30 PM
spent all day getting a client's server back online...since then i've just been chilling. took about an hour drive...nowhere in particular.
when i got home, for some reason, i was thinking about fidonet, speakeasy...all the old bbs message networks.
i could easily write a fido <-> msg board system thru email delivery with php..hell, even set up a real mailer/tosser locally with a phone line...
then i stumbled upon this. http://bbslist.textfiles.com/717/http://bbslist.textfiles.com/717/</a>. i looked through the entire list.
good times...good times. no. GREAT times. in junior high, learning about bbses...the freaking fido node list was over 3 meg (which took over 30 mins to download with a 14.4 modem)...made some great friends back then, all in their 20s and 30s tho...now they must be old people...some are even gone (RIP Howdy).
of course, if i didn't do the bbses, i wouldn't have met dave, who introduced me to the internet, and in turn irc, and emulation where i met zophar where i later got to where i am now.
i always get in these stupid ass depressive moods when i'm tired and have been working a long time.
i have several pcs, including my original bbs pc, sitting here next to me...along with an unused phone line...unused modem... i really should setup a system. with my programming and internet knowledge, i could probably takeover net 270 in a heartbeat.
of course, i'm almost afraid to 1) find any of the old bbs friends 2) lookup old bbses 3) research this any further. i found the internet when boards were at their peak...so i was never exposed to the death of them. i don't think i could manage knowing that some of the greats are dead...
hell, i remember stimpy's sandbox...the sysop, mark, taught me freaking EVERYTHING i knew...who would have known his info brought me into a career that not only provides for me, but also provides massive amounts of alcohol money for the weekend. the sandbox was 3 freaking nodes...ALWAYS busy...HUGE lord game...the best files, the best messages...i'd probably kill myself if i had direct knowledge that it was dead today.
good times my friends...good times...back in the days where everything was cool and life was great...i'd give anything to go back 10 years. <img src=smilies/crying.gif>
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when i got home, for some reason, i was thinking about fidonet, speakeasy...all the old bbs message networks.
i could easily write a fido <-> msg board system thru email delivery with php..hell, even set up a real mailer/tosser locally with a phone line...
then i stumbled upon this. http://bbslist.textfiles.com/717/http://bbslist.textfiles.com/717/</a>. i looked through the entire list.
good times...good times. no. GREAT times. in junior high, learning about bbses...the freaking fido node list was over 3 meg (which took over 30 mins to download with a 14.4 modem)...made some great friends back then, all in their 20s and 30s tho...now they must be old people...some are even gone (RIP Howdy).
of course, if i didn't do the bbses, i wouldn't have met dave, who introduced me to the internet, and in turn irc, and emulation where i met zophar where i later got to where i am now.
i always get in these stupid ass depressive moods when i'm tired and have been working a long time.
i have several pcs, including my original bbs pc, sitting here next to me...along with an unused phone line...unused modem... i really should setup a system. with my programming and internet knowledge, i could probably takeover net 270 in a heartbeat.
of course, i'm almost afraid to 1) find any of the old bbs friends 2) lookup old bbses 3) research this any further. i found the internet when boards were at their peak...so i was never exposed to the death of them. i don't think i could manage knowing that some of the greats are dead...
hell, i remember stimpy's sandbox...the sysop, mark, taught me freaking EVERYTHING i knew...who would have known his info brought me into a career that not only provides for me, but also provides massive amounts of alcohol money for the weekend. the sandbox was 3 freaking nodes...ALWAYS busy...HUGE lord game...the best files, the best messages...i'd probably kill myself if i had direct knowledge that it was dead today.
good times my friends...good times...back in the days where everything was cool and life was great...i'd give anything to go back 10 years. <img src=smilies/crying.gif>
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