By Rob O'Hara
For almost 20 years, computer-based Bulletin Board platforms have been the first approach to conversation among machine clients. As by surprise as they received acceptance, they have been made out of date by means of the following huge factor - a newfangled method referred to as the net. Commodork: Sordid stories from a BBS Junkie takes its readers on a thrilling trip throughout the BBS period. in the course of the author's own stories and adventures, readers will notice extra approximately those extraordinary instances and what it used to be wish to develop up on-line. With stories of copyfests, BBS events and random acts of on-line debauchery, those that have been there'll locate themselves reminiscing, whereas those that were not will take pleasure in studying approximately lifestyles "before the 'net." you recognize, again after we used to modem uphill, either methods within the snow.
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When we got there we found it was basically empty. There was an overturned chair in the living room and a card table that we could see in the kitchen, but everything else was gone. My first thought was that he was screwed. My second thought was that I was screwed, too. My parents realized I was upset over the whole ordeal, but Iʼm not sure they really knew why. My biggest fear at that point was that the feds were going to come knocking on my door next. I was The Bossʼ right hand man on his BBS.
During the copyfest, one of Beach Boyʼs friends began asking me if I had a copy of Winter Games. I had it, but didnʼt have the means to copy it – it took a special program to do. The guy shrugged and went on. When I got home from the copyfest, I had a message on my answering machine from Arcane. When I returned his call, he asked me if I had a copy of Winter Games. “Wow, youʼre the second person to ask me that today,” I replied. “Pull the disk out, I want you to look at it,” he requested. “I donʼt need to pull it out, I just saw it,” I told him.
T. shared the information each of them was discovering during that exciting era. T. message boards, I read every single post and saved them all to disk. Then I borrowed Charonʼs printer and printed them all out. Then Charon made his mom buy him new printer ribbon. Again, it wasnʼt the best system, but it worked for us. T. made some good information available to the rest of us, but unlike some of those guys, I was too afraid to try most of it. I was more afraid of what my parents would do to me than what the phone company might say.