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AUGUST 8, 2006 @ 08:42 AM

Last night was all about the BBS revival. It was a random occurance that made my night. It almost took me back. Back to my first computer in 1994. It was a 486 built by my godparents' son. Complete with Windows 3.1 and a Dos menu. My games included Prince of Persia, Doom, Wolfenstein, Leisure Suit Larry and somehow a strip Mahjong game. It was hilarious. As you played more puzzles, these tles would become fade out to real a section of a sexy mostly naked asian broad. A very appropriate computer game for a 14 year old girl. Anyway, At this time, I got turned onto the world of the BBS by from computer class friend Dave. Who I actually wrote about on the boards a while back and then he contacted me over myspace. Regardless, I used my 14.4 model to connect to other people for the first time ever. I can't recall at all where I actually connedted to, but I do believe my friend's friend was a sysop at the place I frequented most often. Oh man, I used to play the awesome door game LORD and loved it. Oh Seth Able, sing me songs!

Anyhow, that all came to an end one afternoon when I received a phone call from the police. Now, I almost wish I could say this is because of l33t h4x0rz, alas, it was because a fellow nerd was somehow receiving death threats over this BBS. Apparently, he decided it was me and my friend doing it. His name was Eric and he told the cops I was making threats against him, his family and his dog. No joke. I was completely beside myself. While it was probably a bad idea at the time, I gave the cop such attitude because it was such a ridiculous situation. Sadly, after that conference call, my mom removed the phone cable and I was no longer allowed to telnet.

A short while later, AOL and the free disc invaded, followed by the confusing bill of $100+ dollars. "I thought it was free!". And thus, the act of Phishing emerged ...

Totally unrelated, the LA Tofu Festival is this weekend, Dead Rising is out today and Lumines Live has a Marketplace date of September 6th.

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ghostandride

Austin, TX

June 2006

AUG 08, 2006 08:57 AM

If a word of this is true then I am so insanely smitten. hahaha, j/k. That's badass that there are still people BBSin' it up out there.

Ah, nostalgia...

poolshark

Virgin Islands

April 2006

AUG 08, 2006 08:57 AM

Oh my goodness! Someone accusing you of death threats! That's madness.

djprolly

Lansing, MI

December 2005

AUG 08, 2006 09:24 AM

Dead Rising!!! Can't wait to play it

MikeZoolander

Deerfield Beach, FL

January 2004

AUG 08, 2006 09:26 AM

I used to like to play Archon on BBS alllll the time.." the battle of light and dark "....now fast foward 10 + something years...and we have " The battle of Ally and Horde " yay!

BBS games remind of the good times along with original atari and nintendo games......awe! the good old no work and all play days....
up, up, down, down, left , left, right, right Start....gogogogo

Qwerty

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

AUG 08, 2006 09:55 AM

I've never tried tofu.

It looks scary, like some weird food from the future...

bbkaro

Sacramento, CA

April 2003

AUG 08, 2006 10:04 AM

Dead Rising is a game, innit? Dammit. For a second I thought a band I hadn't heard of (but with a really cool name) had slipped a new CD under my radar. Sebadoh's III reissue comes out today. Might make for a good background soundtrack... I'm no help.

saffa

I'm lost

April 2005

AUG 08, 2006 10:48 AM

my first pc was a commodor vic 20
the only thing you could do on it was play bomber man

ethanhallow

Chicago, IL

December 2003

AUG 08, 2006 11:18 AM

Oh do I miss those days... I actually used to run a BBS off of an Atari ST and three 9600 modems...

saffa

I'm lost

April 2005

AUG 08, 2006 12:20 PM

this was mine

yours at least looked like what a computer looks like today

d_Infinite

San Diego, CA

November 2002

AUG 08, 2006 12:34 PM

Ah the wonderful days of BBS, I was addicted to a game called Trade Wars that I played on my Atari 1200 until I could upgrade to a Commodore 64. But after I got the Graphical Powerhouse that was my Amiga 1000, I moved on to the wonderful world of Video Editing and Graphic Design because ASCII was so passe. I miss my Atari and my Amiga

Cheers.

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN

February 2004

AUG 08, 2006 02:18 PM

Master of Orion and Master of Magic were like the best DOS games ever!

Maliceorchid

Vancouver, BC

May 2006

AUG 08, 2006 02:54 PM

I thought the same about you, but then I figured that I must have just seen one of your pics somewhere. I not so sure about that anymore

Crymsen

San Antonio, TX

November 2005

AUG 08, 2006 03:21 PM

Your childhood geekery sounds similar to mine. A friend and I ran a local BBS. I was in charge of running all the DOORS. We even installed some of the real-time ASCII drawn mods for LORDS.

We also distrubted a little bit of contraband, such as the Anarchist's cookbook.

We wuz so l337 :-p.

aphexplotz

Washington, DC

July 2004

AUG 08, 2006 04:50 PM

I might buy an xbox just for dead rising.

OctEgon

Tustin, CA

July 2005

AUG 08, 2006 05:43 PM

LORD and MajorMud owned my nuts like whoa.

BBSn' is pretty much what caused my downward spiral into Nerville. We called ourselves Chunkers. (long story)

Even though you're of the SoCal area, is it too much to assume you were on 4Next, Emerald Isle or Active Matrix?

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