The Good Old Days..

Early HardHouse rose up with the Acid Techno craze. DropBeat; Acid Jazz; etc..

I remember those early days in my twenties with much fondness.

Ohhh... bbs boards & command line crap

Sysop: dark overlord of the bbs board

Oops forgot Ibm At's (now used as anchors on ocean liners)

and... 9600 baud...

Acoustic couplers, remember those?

Now you're on track.. I once was a figure of those days.. ahh how I liked them so much better than these days. Only cool people were on there..the sense of community. Now all the freaks come out.
Used to sit in chats and have good conversations with people.. telnet to other BBS's across the country and hear about things going on over there.

I remember back in 91.. I telneted into a BBS in Kuwait. The only person who could type English was 16 years old. She wanted to come to America and get away from Iraq.
She told me that all the men on her street that were home were taken to the street and beheaded. Her dad wasn't around at the time. They stayed locked in their house.. she told me things that she had seen over there that the Iraqi military was doing to them.. that was right before the US attacked.

Anyhow..

iCE - Insane Creators Enterprise, Inc.
ACiD = Ansi Creators in Demand
cDc = Cult of the Dead Cow (dead beef) - later released Back Orifice as a hacker ulitily.

I used to play in those areas back when it was coming out.. used to have a good friend.. Osiris. He was around 10 years older than I was yet he talked to me about all the things he was doing. Sent a buffer file of quite of few pages of NASA's BBS that he had gotten a little extra access to. Nothing of importance was shown except city rankings for a nuclear attack from Russia.. that was way back though.. probably around 89-90 is my guess.

Oh yes & I pronounced dos as das not daws that allways pissed people off

atdt... lost host connection...atdt...

atdp, atdt.. moving up from pulse to tone on me eh? haha

2mb downloads? you're crazy... that'd fill the hard drive.. you're talking 400k downloaded games and stuff.

That's when I saw my first glimpse of the Anarchist's Cookbook and all the UFO alien documents out there.. I was really surprised how fast UFO's overwhelmed the BBS market.. everything was UFO this, UFO that.. more than anything else.

I remember the talk of the internet.. "the internet is the way to go.. everyone will be switching to it." And then it came.. and fairly fast.. within 2-3 years, BBS's were gone.. only a handful were left.. and thus.. very exist to this day.

Renegade, os/2, and a few others..

Ooh man.. do I ever remember that picture of Vanna White.. wow.

I remember the days when the lowest common denominator on the 'net was something a bit higher than the paraplegic rat's puss that it is today.

We should make it more difficult to access the Internet - have a Smartnet corner for people who don't lack basic communicative skills.

In fact, if I were to ever make/run a forum, I'd make passing an IQ test/essay mandatory before joining.

Ever time I joined an 3|337 board I had to pass a 50 question exam on hacker knowledge, I had to get at least 12 members to sponsor me, and THEN they group would vote to allow or not allow depending on what kind of skills you brought to the table.

That's how you should do it.

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Gotta love 24x7 support for 7 days straight.

Point taken..

It's taken this long for someone to mention that..heh

I've seen sites where you had to exploit vulns in the page's scripts in order to even register.

*shrug* I'm on 24x365.

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