Tag: bbses
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Questionnaire - Plain Text
Over on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course.
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Rebels in the Sky
I feel like I'm reading a lot about SSH lately and how it can be used for exotic and unusual tasks. Tarpitting's fun, of course, but really what inspires me is all these dinky projects like ssh tiny.christmas that subvert the usual authentication-then-terminal flow that you expect when you connect to an SSH server.
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Internet Services^H Provider
When you signed up with an ISP, you used to get Web space, email, shared FTP access, a nearby IRC node, newsgroups, and a software bundle. Nowadays you get a shit router, a voucher for a free month of a streaming service you didn't want, and crap customer service. Where did we go wrong?
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ARCC
I've finally reached a point at which I've seen almost everything in ARCC, so it's time for me to shout a glowing review about why you should give it a go , too.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences
This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences (PCWorld) The year was 1995, and CompuServe's online service cost $4.95 per hour. Yet thousands of people logged into this virtual world daily.
WorldsAway was born 20 years ago, when Fujitsu Cultural Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, released this online experiment in multiplayer … -
The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents’ house to see my old bedroom. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming.
It’s my old computer, still running my 1990s-era bulletin board system (BBS, for short), “The Cave.” I thought I had shut it down ages ago, but it’s been … -
What Is A Door And Why Do I Care
Geeky post with little value to most people: ignore if you don't want to learn a little about the history of the BBS, "Doors", and the subculture around them. This post is written for folks like Ruth, who seemed interested, and others, who seemed possibly-interested.
Before about 1994, even the few of us who had been … -
LORD II - Preston College Version
This document was shared on my college Intranet and via a hidden URL on my first website, on 11 December 1997. It was republished here on 22 March 2021. It provides instructions for players of the multiplayer DOOR game I adapted for local network play and the world I built within it for my friends …
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WildCat BBS
This image was shared here in hindsight, on 22 March 2021. I didn’t actually start blogging until around August 1998; the message and text below were published on a bulletin board system to which I contributed.
The picture above illustrates the software I have just ordered