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07/06/09
07/06/09
There are enthusiasts who still run BBSes on Telnet...
...I don't know the addresses of any, but I have come across directories of them before.
07/06/09
Remember how awesome BananaCom was because it had COLORS, and it made using TELECONFERENCE oh so easier... :P
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I think acoustic coupler modems only came in the 300 baud variety. As far as I know, 1200 baud and above were all "direct connect".
Good times!
07/06/09
Thinking back, I should have just gotten roller skates or something, lol.
07/06/09
My friend Trevor had an acoustic-coupler modem. But then he couldn't hang out with me because my parents got divorced and his folks thought that I would be a bad influence.
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Nice... I used to use a cheap external 2400 baud modem to connect to local BBSes and get what I could find. Shareware games, mods, textfiles, and graphics demos.
It was so awesome when I found a MOD player that would play through a Disney Sound Source since my 286 only had an Adlib card internally (FM synth, no samples!)
Anyone remember Ripterm? It was a vector graphics terminal program - it made door games look... infinitely more impressive, even though it was only 16 colour or something.
I never really got into the modem race until Internet providers came to town - I had 14.4, 28.8, 33.6, 56k, all US Robotics Sportsters. :p
07/07/09
@yelraf:
@fuchikoma:
Yeah! Now that I read your comments, I remember!
I also had went through all fax/modems... no external, if I'm not mistaken.
From 2400 up to 56k. I do remember my dad had an ancient external modem previous to the 2400 one, but I never really used it. It was the size of a standard desktop case, all metal, heavy as hell. xD
Still, not as badass as that analog acoustic coupler modem... :P
[xspblog.com]
Actually, now that I'm reading the post, it seems I always repeat the same story... guess I'm really getting old... :P
Earlier today I was writting a post about Gorilla.bas for the blog pool... :P
07/07/09
Oh man, my friends and I used to mess with the code in gorilla.bas over lunch hours at school... one time we made it so the sun was always angry (shocked?) and encased in a gorilla-colored block. If a banana hit it, it would kill the gorilla on whichever side it was hit on. :p
Nibbles was my favorite though... My introduction to programming was actually self-taught through the brilliant built-in help for QBasic, copying and tweaking the example code in it...
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01/29/09
It expanded from Florida-only to nationwide in 1985. Knight-Ridder pulled the plug on it in 1986, because the world just wasn't interested in an online newspaper. Or so they thought.
01/29/09
We had email but really no family or friends to email to. There was a new service by FedEx, you could compose and email, they would print it and overnight it for like $12, based on number of pages.
Of course I tried all this stuff. Needless to say I was a lonely geed in those days.
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I remember playing Archon on the C<64, along with MULE. Frakkin' amazing games.
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Although it's just at the beginning stages, local beat news like county council meetings for major outlets is getting outsourced. You can thank the rise of community access cable feeds for that.
01/29/09
Whether it's about the health of the King of Siam or the burgeoning zeppelin industry, my fortnightly omnibus posts will never be replaced.
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