The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
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Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the right atmosphere.
Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the
right atmosphere.
I've been going through a retro reading binge lately. Decided to
re-read Bruce Sterling's Hackers book, just picked up Slatalla's MOD,
and have The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll to read. I'm going to see
him speak at the Computer History Museum about BBSes tomorrow night,
and meeting two old sysop friends of mine - Taipan Enigma from &TOTSE
and Dr. Strangelove from Just Say Yes. They were the founders, I was
one of the first BBSes in NIRVANAnet(tm) back in the '90s.
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Hello poindexter,
24 Apr 24 06:45, you wrote to me:
Roon wrote to Ogg <=-
The Masters of Deception book is also pretty good,
The 1995 book by Slatalla? Sounds interesting. I've read both
previous one just mentioned here.
i've just finished M.O.D. it was quite interesting and it has the
right atmosphere.
I've been going through a retro reading binge lately. Decided to re-read Bruce Sterling's Hackers book, just picked up Slatalla's MOD, and have The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll to read. I'm going to see him speak at the Computer History Museum about BBSes tomorrow night, and meeting two old sysop friends of mine - Taipan Enigma from &TOTSE and Dr. Strangelove from Just Say Yes. They were the founders, I was one of the first BBSes in NIRVANAnet(tm) back in the '90s.
yeah i am on this retro reading wave as well. i read hackers as well last autumn, and now i started Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet.
Ben Collver wrote to niter3 <=-
A friend of mine recommends Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson as the epitome
of cyperpunk fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/HTML/
Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
https://www.rudyrucker.com/juicyghosts/HTML/
who here uses floppy disks still?
i still use them for my computers!! <3
especially my 286! <3
:<< they are still pretty neat! just old and old school
I got a cool story...
When we were teens my buddy had his BBS hacked and had the whole system wiped.
We as kids in the early 90's called the cops to make a report and we realized after calling them we had a ton of pirated software still
hanging around.
i wish i had interesting stories like this but most of my internet experience is combating really bad mental illness and bullies/shit people online
I could tell you a few interesting stories from the 90's BBS days. We
had all sorts of drama. :>
It was around a couple different sysops. One ended up being arrested. :)
No you freaking didn't!! Muahahahahahaha - I can just hear it now, two kids explaining to the cops that someone had wiped their important bulletin board system machine. And that was ILLEGAL and damaged the machine - 'It's all gonnnnnnne' - lolzzzz!!
Dude - my entire teenage years were spent with BBS friends, girlfriends, other sysops, scene drama - all of it. TBH, we were the coolest nerds around I think! I went to four proms!!
So many bonfires and parties and pizza meetups - what was the name of
YOUR coffee house hangout? Mine was....... SOMETHING Grounds; dang I
can't remember it... it was some hipster/hippy name AHHH - SACRED
GROUNDS. Lots of BBS drama happened @ The Sacred Grounds, man!
niter3 wrote to paulie420 <=-
It wasn't a coffee house, but a bowling alley. One of our friends out
of our group owned a bowling alley so we had a room upstairs to get together.
I do utilize SDCard solutions for most of the above, and other HDD replacements like CFCard boards - but yea, using the actual media DOES do it for me... :P
can't remember it... it was some hipster/hippy name AHHH - SACRED GROUNDS. Lots of BBS drama happened @ The Sacred Grounds, man!
It wasn't a coffee house, but a bowling alley. One of our friends out of our group owned a bowling alley so we had a room upstairs to get together.
Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....
I've posted before about this, but I lived next door to a house
converted into a pub - our front porches were combined so I could walk
to the pub without stepping on a sidewalk.
They sold beer and wine, pipe tobacco and cigars, and had separate
rooms - a living room with comfy chairs and a fireplace, a room with
tables people could work at (this was near a university), a back room
and 2 porches. We had many gettogethers there.
The two fairly regular locations here was, Zone 3, a laser tag arena, and Charlton's, a pool hall. When I say pool hall it was pretty large, 3 floors, karaoke, live band, and a floor of tables all fully licensed.
That's pretty sweat. We only had the bowling alley, otherwise we would just go to each other's homes.
It was also difficult for us to all meet up because some of our friends lived in the city just outside ours. Not that it was far, but when you're young with no drivers license, you were begging your parents to drive you. Even the city buses didn't take you between the city/towns..
Let's see... I still use floppies on my Apple IIe, C=64, C=128, Dolchi use SSDs for the main C: drive on my computers but i also use CFcards for auxilary secondary drives like D: on my 286! :D
PAC 60 and a couple laptops; 286, Pentium and a ThinkPad.
I do utilize SDCard solutions for most of the above, and other HDD replacements like CFCard boards - but yea, using the actual media DOES
do it for me... :P
Not sure if it happened, but someone was talking about floppy drive sound effects for the Apple II floppy emulator. Chugga chugga chugga.....
| Sysop: | altere |
|---|---|
| Location: | Houston, TX |
| Users: | 69 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 00:57:10 |
| Calls: | 1,366 |
| Files: | 8,505 |
| Messages: | 305,693 |