Tag Archives: oldschool

dialup ghost towns and amazon ec2

August 31, 2006 – 11:37 pm

Most BBS enthusiasts know that the last outpost for BBSes has been, for some time now, through telnet on the Internet. There was a time, however, when when dial-up BBSes over analog phone lines were the rule, not the exception.Source: VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming » Blog Archive » The Dial-Up BBS Revisited Reading this [...]

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West of House

October 20, 2005 – 11:09 pm

The next documentary I am working on is about Text Adventures, or Interactive Fiction. It is called “Get Lamp”. Source: ASCII by Jason Scott: There is a Shiny Brass Lamp nearby Sweet merciful crap! Man, aren’t I smack-dab in the middle of Jason Scott’s target demographic? I snatched up his BBS Documentary with the quickness, [...]

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Synchronet BBS Software, Tidal Pools, and On-Ramps

December 16, 2004 – 10:19 am

At least Finland isn’t a long distance call anymore.

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