Its nice to see that BBS's are alive and well, many other folks here?

The Hitman
A bbs'er since 1985

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Re: Greetings and Salutations to all!
By: The Hitman to DOVE-Net.General on Sun Jun 27 2021 12:41 pm



Hey! Happy to see there is still a community on active BBS(s)
Really loved downloading the latest shareware games from different bbs(s) when I was a kid
Looking forward to more lerking and hunting on all these amazing BBS(s)

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The Hitman wrote to DOVE-Net.General <=-

Its nice to see that BBS's are alive and well, many other folks here?

The Hitman
A bbs'er since 1985

You got me beat by 7 years. I didn't get into the BBS schene until 1992.
It is great to see the FTNs alive and kicking, and that some of the old
DOS doors run just fine still. Brings back some good memories.


... Old bosses never die, much as you want them to.
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The Hitman wrote to DOVE-Net.General <=-

Its nice to see that BBS's are alive and well, many other folks here?

The Hitman
A bbs'er since 1985

Yup! :)


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On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:05:39 -0400, Scruffyfurn wrote:

Re: Greetings and Salutations to all!
By: The Hitman to DOVE-Net.General on Sun Jun 27 2021 12:41 pm

Hey! Happy to see there is still a community on active BBS(s)
Really loved downloading the latest shareware games from different
bbs(s) when I was a kid Looking forward to more lerking and hunting on
all these amazing BBS(s)

I used to spend HOURS every day calling many different bbs's just to get
the latest shareware games and follow up with all my messages.

i had a blast doing it....

The first board i ever called was a WWIV board called "Pirates Cove"...

i had a blast... :)

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:34:00 -0400, Brian Rogers wrote:

The Hitman wrote to DOVE-Net.General <=-

Its nice to see that BBS's are alive and well, many other folks

here?

The Hitman TH> A bbs'er since 1985

You got me beat by 7 years. I didn't get into the BBS schene until 1992.
It is great to see the FTNs alive and kicking, and that some of the old
DOS doors run just fine still. Brings back some good memories.

... Old bosses never die, much as you want them to.
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
¨ Synchronet ¨ SBBS - Carnage! Hartford, Ct bbs.n1uro.com:2300

Lol, those were the days :)

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:05:39 -0400, Scruffyfurn wrote:

Re: Greetings and Salutations to all!
By: The Hitman to DOVE-Net.General on Sun Jun 27 2021 12:41 pm
Hey! Happy to see there is still a community on active BBS(s)
Really loved downloading the latest shareware games from different
bbs(s) when I was a kid Looking forward to more lerking and hunting on
all these amazing BBS(s)

I used to spend HOURS every day calling many different bbs's just to get
the latest shareware games and follow up with all my messages.

i had a blast doing it....

Ahh, the good old daze! I, too -- I mostly liked te messaging aspects, & the camaraderie in the LORD games (was as close to the old text adventure games I ever found)

I called 10+ boards/day in my heyday, all local, as they began dying out post-Y2K, I branched out & called several other DOS-based boards LD. At one point I was putting in 6,000 minutes/month of long distance modem calls!

I'm still RL friends with a couple sysops!

I realized I was sick of facebook a little while ago, & missing the easygoing chat/fun of BBSing & Fidonet, so talked to my one sysop mate about
reconecting my old point, but he's bee out of the loop for a while,so
referred me to the sysop of the taglined BBS below; I'm out of the loop, too, as I'm unable to get my point setup working. . .

I helped plan a big meetup/party at one point, for a multinode BBS I was on. Great fun, including a massive water fight!

Did smaller GTGs at local bars, too. . . ahh, the good ol' pre-internet days.
. . I still miss them.

I still have my trusty old DOS IBM 486 ready to be plugged in & reconnect to the BBSes still accepting dialup!

I'm in a sub-burp of Vancouver, Canada. . where's you?

Your friend,

<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM

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You got me beat by 7 years. I didn't get into the BBS schene until 1992.
It is great to see the FTNs alive and kicking, and that some of the old
DOS doors run just fine still. Brings back some good memories.

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80
BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.


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Re: Greetings and Salutations
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to BRIAN ROGERS on Sun Jul 04 2021 21:25:00

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.

Same. I've been trying to get some of the old SysOps to revive their boards, but so far it's been no go.

Lupine Furmen
-Dallas Vinson
Furmens Folly (FIDO 1:123/257) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23
SSH: furmenservices.net:23222
Before the Web - telnet: furmenservices.net:23232
Legends of Yesteryear (FIDO 1:123/256) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23322
Sound Source ]|[ - telnet: furmenservices.net:2323



Dallas

... He who dies with the most toys, wins!

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Re: Greetings and Salutations
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to BRIAN ROGERS on Sun Jul 04 2021 09:25 pm

You got me beat by 7 years. I didn't get into the BBS schene until
1992. It is great to see the FTNs alive and kicking, and that some of
the old DOS doors run just fine still. Brings back some good
memories.

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.

I started using BBSes in 1992, and I don't know exactly how many BBSes were in my area, but I think it could have easily been at least 80, or even more. There was a local BBS list that was regularly maintained and uploaded to many BBSes in my area, and I remember it having so many BBSes that I wouldn't have tried calling them all (and I seem to remember there being some adult boards too, so I would have been too young at the time to call those).

Nightfox

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Hello Matthew;

MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to BRIAN ROGERS <=-

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.

Nice! Keep the technologies rolling!

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MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to BRIAN ROGERS <=-

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.

It's pretty shocking to look at some of the old nodelists. I remember
needing to find a better archiver than ARC to make it fit on a floppy disk!

Region 10 had what seemed like hundreds of BBSes to call.


... Abandon desire
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Lupine Furmen wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON <=-

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over 80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area code
now.

Same. I've been trying to get some of the old SysOps to revive their boards, but so far it's been no go.

I had a hardcore group of callers back in the dial-up days, mostly for an othernet I was in. When I went private for a time (needed the phone line for
a consulting business) that all dropped off. When I came back with a telnet BBS, a couple of them tried it out, but dropped it quickly. When I asked
why?

"Momentum". BBSing had a time and a place for some, but when the scene went away, it was time to go.


... Do the words need changing?
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Re: Greetings and Salutations
By: Lupine Furmen to MATTHEW MUNSON on Mon Jul 05 2021 12:26 pm

@VIA: FURFOL
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Re: Greetings and Salutations
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to BRIAN ROGERS on Sun Jul 04 2021 21:25:00

My beginning was around 1995 where my local area code had like over
80 BBSes for people to visit. I think im the only bbs in my area
code now.

Same. I've been trying to get some of the old SysOps to revive their boards, but so far it's been no go.

Lupine Furmen
-Dallas Vinson
Furmens Folly (FIDO 1:123/257) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23
SSH: furmenservices.net:23222
Before the Web - telnet: furmenservices.net:23232
Legends of Yesteryear (FIDO 1:123/256) - telnet: furmenservices.net:23322 Sound Source ]|[ - telnet: furmenservices.net:2323

He posted this way back in July.

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