13 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / What Is BBS? - "In its most fundamental form, the BBS was simply a computer connected via a modem to a phone line. On the computer was software that, when it detected that someone was calling the modem, would pick up, connect, and then provide the calling person wi
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Rob Swindell and the Synchronet Museum - "One thing that’s important to demarcate for Rob over a lot of my other interviewees was that he was one of the few BBS software authors still actively writing and maintaining his software. In fact, he still maintains it to the present day. Add on
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: When the BBS Broke Free - "Consider for a moment, if you will, how much computer you're seeing in this shot. Each of those machines is a fully set up PC compatible, with the attendant costs of memory, hard drive, and internal cards. They are all connected to modems (some
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18 month ago
deusx : Legend of the Red Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based role-playing game written in Pascal and run on Bulletin board systems as a third party door game. It was created by Seth Robinson of Robinson Technologies and is currently maintained by Michael Preslar
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24 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Ding Dong, ANSI Calling - "I had the pleasure of attending the ANSI Gallery showing this past January, and I also had the chance to purchase one of the items being shown; one of the small handful of ANSI display boxes against the wall"
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26 month ago
deusx : BBS Corner - Setting Up A Telnet BBS - "Are you looking to set up a Telnet BBS but don't know anything about Telnet or where to begin?"
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26 month ago
deusx : Old School BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon - One man's "old school BBS" is another man's new-school fancy web thing. Mine made screaming noises on the telephone.
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34 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Goatse II: The Widening - "this networking facility allows people to go from 0-60,000 displays of a stretched rectum in just a couple days, where that same period of time can lead to hundreds of people "discussing" what is essentially a prank, and the bell-curve of
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42 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Review: Commodork - "his book does what my film couldn't; go front to end on one boy's story to turning into a man online. And for that, I thank him, and I think a lot of others will too."
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50 month ago
deusx : BBS Ads Collection v1.0 - "This is the unofficial online version of bac-v10.zip that was published with PAiN issue 10/03 (54) in Oct'2003."
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57 month ago
Andy Baio : Jason Scott on the death of a Teletype art collector - "we stand on crumbling sand"
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: A Silent Key - "We stand on crumbling sand."
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57 month ago
jkottke : Jason Scott on why his BBS documentary will never make it onto TV
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: TeeVee - "Why would I work hard to jump off that mountain into a garbage pit?"
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58 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: I'm Shocked! Truly SHOCKED! - 'Well, finally someone turned the Documentary into a "ware".'
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58 month ago
deusx : played.todeath.com - Legend of the Red Dragon - "L.O.R.D. is a text-based game played on a BBS (bulletin board system)."
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58 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons - "I've tried to make a decent, good, solid loaf of bread here, which tastes good, is what it says it is, and doesn't cheat you." Definitely happy I bought this.
Andy Baio : Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons licensed - read this immediately
Wayne Burkett : ASCII by Jason Scott: Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons - "It was in some ways a tough decision, because you want to "protect" yourself, but then you realize you're not really "protecting" anything; all you're doing is being a paranoid twitch-bag. And once you realize this, then it becomes a little easier." #
jkottke : Jason Scott on why he decided to license his straight-to-DVD documentary under a Creative Commons license - "It was in some ways a tough decision, because you want to 'protect' yourself, but then you realize you're not really 'protecting' anything; all you're doing is being a paranoid twitch-bag. And once you realize this, the
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58 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Out There - "Because treating my customers/audience like moronic criminals is not what intelligent beings do." Hooray - almost makes me want to order the documentary again. Maybe I will, for a birthday gift or something
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59 month ago
deusx : BBS: A Documentary: News - "The vast majority of the DVDs have shipped!" Hooray!
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59 month ago
cameron : All Your Base Are Belong To Us Timeline - Good extended timeline of the events that shaped AYB
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59 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Packing Boxes Arrive, DVDs in about a Week - "This is what $800 worth of packing boxes looks like"
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62 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: FidoNET Web-interface - ...and spam from the web finally reached FidoNET. :)
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The BBS Documentary DVD and Premiere - "First of all, I have basically committed to finish the BBS documentary this year." Hooray!
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