Re: CCIE # 30000

Amazing thread folks. Speaking on behalf of Fossils everywhere this
brings back some seriously old memories of the good ol' days. I still
remember sitting around giggling every time I put the receiver on the
coupler and listened to V.2X negotiations before anyone had heard of
AOL. I think AOL showed up somewhere along V.34 and 28.8k? Music to my
ears....

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 08/18/2011 09:11 AM, Kenneth Ratliff wrote:
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> On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Scott Morris wrote:
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>> Wildcat was nice and colorful. PCBoard could be customized quite a bit
>> too.... I used to run Celerity (small-known but colorful like Wildcat)
>> until the BBS got too bit, then moved to PCBoard. :)
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>> Ahhhhh... The Good Old Days. Back when US Robotics was an AWESOME
>> company!
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> I honestly couldn't stand Wildcat, mostly because they ALL LOOKED THE SAME. Most cat ops couldn't be bothered to customize their BBS's to save their lives.
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> I started out as a Renegade sysop, earned my way up to Alpha status, and then turned traitor and jumped back to Telegard after it's revival (at leas that's what they said about me.... I just *really* needed JAM/Squish support).
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> I remember Celerity quite well. And OBV/2. And the joke/security nightmare that was Iniquity. The rise of MajorBBS, due largely in popularity to MajorMUD.
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> InterBBS BRE and FE, Exitilus and the frustration it's data corrupting bugs brought. Scores of drama over who on the BBS had TEDIT access and was actually playing TW2002. Getting to know my users through the chat ability of HSLink as they pimped my drive with whatever cool stuff they had laying around while they simultaneously raped my own archives.
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> And, of course, getting my first *real* introduction to politics at it's basic level thanks to the FidoNet.
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