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Unreferenced date March 2009 NirvanaNET was a dial up Bulletin board system BBS network, started in 1990 in the San Francisco Bay Area , by Joe Russack, aka Dr. Strangelove Sysop of Just Say Yes , Jeff Hunter, aka Taipan Enigma sysop of Totse &TOTSE , and Ratsnatcher Sysop of Rat head Systems . NirvanaNet was unique among BBS networks, because member BBS systems agreed to allow anyone to connect, and access everything on the systems, instantly and anonymously. They also traded thousands of text files between the systems covering every subject imaginable. &TOTSE continued as a website until January 17, 2009, when it was closed by Jeff Hunter. It later expanded to include other eclectic BBSs that valued liberty and privacy, including realitycheckBBS , The New Dork Sublime , My Dog Bit Jesus , Lies Unlimited , Sea of Noise , El Observador , The Salted Slug , The Lair Boise, Idaho , Burn This Flag , The Stage , and others. Category Bulletin board systems web stub ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 SimCode is an Interpreted Computer Language developed by Michael Whitt in the early 90s. Michael was the SysOp of the GroundZer0 Bulletin board system BBS . He developed the language so that other SysOps could easily develop programs such as games or questionnaires. External links http cd.textfiles.com drsharewaregold programs simcode.zip the SimCode interpreter, available for download tech stub Category Computer languages ... more details
Advert date December 2007 Ivory BBS is a simple and robust BBS program for the Commodore 64 . Known for its default cool blue hues, and limited functionality. E mail user to user, discussion forum s, a file transfer area, and of course Sysop Chat . Easy to operate flip one of the dip switch dip switches on your 1200 baud modem to auto answer, load the program, publish your phone number on other BBSes, and you re in business. External links http www.zimmers.net bbs ivbbs.html Category Bulletin board system software Category Commodore 64 software network software stub ... more details
Image Dtjbbsmenu.png frame Screenshot of online DTJ BBS menu as it appeared on the sysop s display. Notability date September 2011 Unreferenced date September 2011 The DTJ BBS Does The Job Bulletin Board System was a program for the Commodore 64 written by Andrew Bernhardt. The first version was released in 1985, and sold for 35. There were forty DTJ systems before the software changed to freeware in 1989. the software spread more rapidly as freeware but I have no statistics as there was no obligation to register the program DTJ BBS was loosely based on the Citadel software Citadel family of general discussion systems. Its primary function was a public message board, although it did support other features such as email and file transfers. Like Citadel, it used the metaphor of rooms to contain messages, and the system responded to many of the same menu commands. DTJ was written for speed and ease of use. No Commodore specific features such as graphics were supported. This was intended to make the system appealing to users all computer types. The BBS was successful in this regard. DTJ systems tended to have a more diverse user base. Many users were surprised to find out that the software was not running on an IBM PC but on a toy computer. DTJ BBS had a freeform text editor that did not use line numbers. The user was encouraged not to press RETURN or ENTER except at the end of paragraphs so that the message could word wrap to the reader s video width. The content of the text editor was non volatile, meaning the user could exit the editor at any time and come back later to finish before saving it. Users with sufficient access could create rooms message bases or discussion forums ... delete itself automatically. DTJ BBS also provided many features to make the sysop s job easier. The sysop could send most Commodore DOS 2.6 commands to the drives disk drives and partitions were .... There was a sysop configurable profanity checker that blanked out words in real time, and a twit ... more details
ZOOiD BBS the zoo of ids, or alternatively referencing zooid was a Toronto area Bulletin board system in 1986 1993 that served a creative community. The sysop was http zooid.org vid David H. Mason , assisted by several others. Among its members was Rasmus Lerdorf . Initially a Commodore 64 based Bulletin board system BBS running Spence BBS software , it became the development site for M1 BBS software , which eventually expanded to about 13 systems before ZOOiD switched to Waffle bbs Waffle , and then Xenix to support UUCP and multiple phone lines. In 1993, ZOOiD merged with R Node to become Internex Online , the first consumer ISP Internet Service Provider in Canada. Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
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BLP sources date May 2009 Image P1010052.jpg right thumbnail Grandmaster Ratte as he appears in the film BBS The Documentary . Grandmaster Ratte nowiki nowiki born April 1970, formerly known as Swamp Rat and then Swamp Ratte nowiki nowiki is one of the founders of the Cult of the Dead Cow Hacker computer security hacker group, along with Franken Gibe and Sid Vicious. His official title in the cDc is Imperial Wizard of ExXxtasy. ref http www.bovinedawn.com index.php?showuser 1 ref Ratte is originally from Lubbock, Texas Lubbock , Texas , though he now resides in Harlem , New York City . He is a graduate of both Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University . Ratte is the sysop SysOp of Demon Roach Underground bulletin board system BBS , the cDc base system. He is known for his theatrics during cDc presentations at hacker con s. Ratte has also produced and performed much of the music available for download from the cDc s website, including work by Hugh Gallagher humorist Hugh Gallagher . References Reflist External links http www.myspace.com gratte MySpace profile http www.cultdeadcow.com Cult of the Dead Cow website http www.phrack.org issues.html?issue 51&id 4 article Phrack magazine profile of Grandmaster Ratte http www.textfiles.com groups DAMAGEINC gratte.txt Damage, Inc. magazine interview IMDB name id 1944045 name Grandmaster Ratte Cult of the Dead Cow Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Grandmaster Ratte ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1970 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Grandmaster Ratte Category 1970 births Category Living people Category American bloggers Category People from Lubbock, Texas Category Cult of the Dead Cow members Category American Internet personalities Category Texas Tech University alumni ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 OzWin was a client program which was used to connect to the CompuServe CompuServe Information Service . It was a GUI program written in Delphi that ran on the Microsoft Windows operating system . It was published by Ozarks West Software Ltd. and programmed by Steve Sneed. OzWin was born out of the earlier OzCIS program which was DOS based. OzWin allowed users to connect to CompuServe forums and batch download messages, files, and so forth from the server and then disconnect. They could then read the messages offline, and as well compose new messages and replies while offline. When they finished reading and composing messages, they could connect again to batch send all of the messages, as well as receive any new messages others had posted to the forums. This allowed users to batch upload and download messages and then work offline, minimising the time they were connected to CompuServe. This was important, since at that time, users were charged by the hour to connect to CompuServe, so remaining connected all the time was an expensive proposition and could quickly run up charges. Like OzCIS, OzWin also had features for up and downloading files to the forum libraries, plus a complete set of SysOp features such as moving and deleting messages, administering the file libraries, and flagging users giving denying SysOp rights, kicking banning . Unlike other offline readers such as TapCIS and NavCIS which added proprietary ways of formatting text colors, fonts, attributes , OzWin always remained plain text and never displayed any custom styles. In May 2005, CompuServe discontinued access the OzCis and TapCIS forums on CompuServe. Other CompuServe client programs CompuServe Information Manager ForCIS NavCIS TapCIS WinCIM DEFAULTSORT Ozwin Category Windows software Category CompuServe Windows software stub Internet stub ... more details
BLP sources date December 2008 Joseph Sheppard is an United States American Actor . His first public appearance was in 1968 as a child guest on the Art Linkletter Art Linkletter s House Party House Party television program . Sheppard was graduated Verdugo Hills High School 1977 where he appeared in numerous plays. He was a member of the exclusive Los Angeles City College Theatre Department and Academy program Associate of Arts in Theater, 1979 . Sheppard started the Roadshow Players traveling theater troupe. It entertained thousands of children in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1987 Sheppard was the Sysop of The Ledge PCBoard, a Bulletin Board System , and ran it for ten years. ref cite web url http www.textfiles.com history lifeonledge.txt title Ten Years on The Ledge accessdate 2008 12 23 author Sheppard, Joseph Sysop, The Ledge PCBoard BBS first Joseph last Sheppard authorlink Joseph Sheppard coauthors date year month format work publisher pages language doi archiveurl archivedate quote ref The Ledge became one of the most popular BBS systems in the pre internet online world. After his father s death in 1995, Sheppard left acting to manage SDC Convention Services. The company provides equipment and Trade union union labor for trade show s in the western United States . He is a member of Electronic Frontier Foundation , American Federation of Television and Radio Artists , Actor s Equity , and Screen Actors Guild . He and his wife, the former Jane Sweet, have three children. References Reflist External links IMDB name 0791951 Joseph Sheppard http www.josephsheppard.net Joseph s Personal Website http www.shepdec.com SDC Convention Services Website http www.roadshowplayers.com RoadShow Players Website Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sheppard, Joseph ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1958 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sheppard, Joseph Category American actors Category 1958 births Category L ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 Hermes Bulletin Board Software BBS was first released in 1989 as one of the early bulletin board system applications available for the Macintosh computer. With an interface based largely on WWIV BBS for MS DOS , Hermes offered an alternative to Red Ryder software Red Ryder Host that offered better support for multi line BBSes and a more complete out of the box configuration. It also offered the ability for SysOp s to maintain their BBSes remotely, and offered an application programming interface API for external application developers to extend the system. Hermes continues to be developed, and currently When date December 2010 reason currently has no meaning in an encyclopaedia features a Python programming language Python API for external development. However, it is only available as a classic Mac OS application, so cannot run natively on Mac OS X or Intel Macintosh hardware. External links http www.hermesbbs.com hermesbbs.com , official website for Hermes BBS Category 1989 software Category Bulletin board system software Category Mac OS software Mac software stub ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 The Fairfield Community Connection FCC was a bulletin board system located in Fairfield, Connecticut Fairfield , Connecticut , USA . It was created in 1994 by SysOp R. Scott Perry. It was the largest BBS in southwestern Connecticut, consisting of over 8 Node networking nodes . History FCC was opened to the public on February 1, 1994 with 4 nodes, increased to 8 nodes in May, 1994, and finally increased to 14 nodes in February, 1996. It provided Internet E mail starting in February, 1994, and full Internet access in March, 1995. It was merged with the Powerhouse BBS in June, 1996. The phone number was 335 4073. FCC was set up using Galacticomm s Major BBS Worldgroup software. Lacking in game and download sections, FCC s main appeal was its chat room s . Many people would also use the message boards to communicate. This local connection provided opportunities for BBS meets as well as long term friendship with others. FCC helped usher in a larger era of BBS in southwestern Connecticut, including but not limited to No Class BBS, Powerhouse , Kirby, Alcatraz and The Dog Pound . FCC Regulars included Snoop, Gambit, Montyp, Star, Raven and Master Wu. Others included Dante, Peach, Lestat, Highlander, Octave, Ziggy Stardust, Sting, Mr. Bungle, Lorenzo, Bishop and SHS. References http www.textfiles.com bbs BBSLISTS exjul95.txt A list of local CT BBSes from 1995 put together by SHS Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
TeleFinder is a Apple Macintosh Macintosh based bulletin board system written by Spider Island Software, based on a client server model whose client end provides a Mac like GUI . It appears to be the first such system on any platform, predating Apple s own AppleLink , as well as other Mac based BBS systems like FirstClass . In more recent years the product has added a complete suite of sub servers for popular internet protocols. External links http tfbbs.com TeleFinder Server The TeleFinder software consists of 2 programs, the Server software Macintosh only and the GUI based client software also called TeleFinder , which is available for both macintosh and Windows based PCs. The TeleFinder Server could also network with other TeleFinder Server BBS computers and share email and forum messages between themselves and also over FidoNet. The TeleFinder Server System Operator SysOp could also use ResEdit a Macintosh resource editor software to create and modify profiles to give their BBS a unique GUI. These profile files were distributed by each BBS for users to download and use with the client software, if they wished to see this GUI. Otherwise, a default GUI was used instead. TeleFinder Server and Client software was originally written by Rusty Tucker with portions by Chris Silverberg and Jim White for Spider Island Software in Irvine, California USA. All artwork by Jim Leftwich of Attention Design. Category Bulletin board system software network software stub ... more details
multiple issues cleanup May 2010 refimprove May 2010 orphan November 2006 notability May 2011 Lunatic Labs was a Bulletin board system BBS Bulletin Board System that operated in Hayward, California Hayward , CA and later Los Angeles , CA from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. It was sysop d by The Mad Alchemist. The BBS hosted the Phrack e zine for a short period as it was the contact point for the editors from Issue 15 to 17. http www.phrack.org issues.html?issue 15 It was a source for a lot of underground research material on Hacker computer security hacking , phreaking , recreational and mind altering drugs , the occult , and various other counter culture topics. The BBS went off line when the hard disk hard drives failed in the mid 1990s, and the sysop decided that the increased law enforcement presence online made it too risky to continue to run the BBS. Many of the articles from the BBS can be found on various internet sites, such as textfiles.com . Some examples of original articles published on that BBS included MAO INHIBITORS BETA CARBOLINE POTENTIATION OF LSD AND PSILOCYBIN http www.hoboes.com pub Prohibition Drug 20Information General 20Information MAO 20Inhibitor 20Highs Bathtub Napalm http www.phrack.org issues.html?issue 15&id 5 article Notes on MDMA experiences http www.textfiles.com drugs mdaxtc.txt And first person drug experiences posted. http www.totse.com en ego no laughing matter drugweir.html Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Refimprove date August 2007 ZIP Beep was a humor magazine created by J Charles Chuck Strinz. It was published monthly from September 1984 to 1989 ref Fuller, Jim May 9 , http strinz.com web content pages zipbeep zbstribsm.html Magazine is free if your computer can hook up with it , Minneapolis Star Tribune 1C ref ref Bechtold, Allan R, http strinz.com web content pages zipbeep zbsysopsm.html Ten Years Later, an online computer humor magazine proves content is king , Sysop News 8 ref and was syndicated to over 150 Bulletin Board Systems around the world through BBS Press Service, making it the first ever online humor magazine, and one of the first online magazine s. Most of the original 60 monthly issues are now available on the magazine s author s website. The humor in ZIP Beep ranged from topical articles regarding Ronald Reagan , Mickey Mouse , and Jay Leno , to more esoteric technology humor. References References External links http www.strinz.com zipbeep zipintro.htm More information about ZIP Beep from its creator entertainment mag stub webzine stub Category American magazines ... more details
Forum 80 refers to a Bulletin board system BBS software created in 1980 in the US for running a BBS on a Tandy TRS 80 computer. The software, and the name is most notable for being the first BBS in the UK. The Forum 80 BBS was set up in late 1980 early 1981 in Kingston upon Hull in the north of England by Frederick Brown, a computer enthusiast. It featured in many articles in computer magazines at the time, not just for being the first BBS, but also for Brown s way of treating the delicate computer equipment. It was noted on several occasions that he had removed the covers from the two 5 1 4 that contained the system and that they were under an open window in a shed in his back garden and all the equipment was covered in a layer of cigarette ash. Frederick Brown later went on to create AFPAS, the Association of Free Public Access Systems, which was set up to bring together sysops and BBS users and became an information service for people to contact for help in accessing UK BBS s. He did this with co sysop Neil Douglas Barnby, who also went on later to create other BBS systems. Forum 80 was used by many of the first bulletin boards setup in the UK but was later replaced by Fidonet . Category 1980 establishments in the United Kingdom Category Bulletin board system software computer stub ... more details
messagebase. Sysop s who were away from the physical BBS sometimes have the capability to use general operating system commands through a special door. One such sysop door was DOORWAY by Marshall ... more details
OSUNY Ohio Scientific Users of New York was a legendary dial up Bulletin board system bulletin board that was run by two different sysop s, SYSOP while in Scarsdale, NY and Frank Roberts in White Plains, NY 914 throughout the 1980s. Named for the Ohio Scientific computer it originally ran on, it attracted a large group of hacker computer security hacker s, Phreaking telephone phreak s, engineer s, computer programmer s, and other technophile s. It remained a haven almost exclusively for the hacker phreaker community until gaining notoriety through mention in a Newsweek article, Hacking Through NASA A threat or only an embarrassment , and mention in the book The Hacker Crackdown as a favored hangout of the notorious hacker group The Legion of Doom, after which it was shuttered, and another board was brought up as a replacement known as The Crystal Palace, which was short lived. OSUNY was restarted soon after, using an Altos 5 15D running MP M and the continuously evolving Citadel software. Also in the mid 1980s it became the first BBS to be associated with 2600 Magazine The Central Office, run by The DataMaster was second . It ran via dial up until its closing around 1988. Some of the original technical files, including bluebox, blackbox, redbox, silver box, and rainbow box plans can still be found in remote corners of the internet today. Internet Revival Image osunycom112399.jpg frame A screenshot from osuny.com, as it appeared on November 13, 1999 In April 1997, the osuny.com domain name was registered with intentions of reincarnating the board on the Internet. This new OSUNY became accessible via interactive telnet and Secure Shell ssh login at the hostname saturn.osuny.com. It ran on the Linux operating system and Citadel UX conferencing software. As with its previous incarnations, OSUNY attracted a loyal group of users, in spite of only being sporadically available. Saturn eventually disappeared, much to the disappointment of its regular users, and has been offl ... more details
The House Of Lunduke is a 20 line Bulletin board system started and maintained by Bryan Lunduke, host of the technology podcast The Linux Action Show , with the stated purpose of being a museum of classic BBS door Games. History The House of Lunduke BBS came online in October 2010 ref name House Of Lunduke Launch Announcement Cite web url http lunduke.com ?p 1618 title House Of Lunduke Launch Announcement ref with the stated purpose of being a shrine to classic BBS door Games. The BBS was started, and is currently maintained by Bryan Lunduke of Jupiter Broadcasting , who has a long history with BBSing. ref name About BBSing Cite web url http lunduke.com ?page id 1314 title About BBSing ref Bryan was interviewed on the topic of BBSing culture and history by the Old Wide Web show. ref name Interview with Bryan Lunduke Cite web url http oldwideweb.org podcast episodes episode 5 i was a teenage sysop title Interview with Bryan Lunduke ref Games The House of Lunduke BBS is predominantly a gaming BBS with very little in terms of message forums and absolutely no files available for download . The following classic BBS door games are currently running on the BBS TradeWars 2002 Including an unlimited turn, ongoing game. Legend of the Red Dragon Legend of the Red Dragon 2 Exitilus The Pit BBS door Barren Realms Elite DoorMUD Technology The BBS itself is run on an Asus Eee PC 900 netbook, running Arch Linux , on an 8gb SD drive. The BBS software used is the DOS based Virtual Advanced , run using a combination of Wine software Wine and DOSBox . It is accessible via telnet at bbs.lunduke.com or via a pre configured Flash terminal. ref name Flash Terminal Cite web url http lunduke.com ?page id 1602 title Flash Terminal ref References Reflist External links http lunduke.com ?page id 1316 House Of Lunduke Website . http oldwideweb.org podcast episodes episode 5 i was a teenage sysop Interview with Bryan Lunduke about the BBS and BBS History on the Old Wide Web podcast. Category Bul ... more details
Basic 4.5 About a year after the BBS opened the SysOp Won a copy of Quick Basic 4.5 at a computer ... Linux, and tho written in Pascal programming language Pascal which the SysOp considered a step back ... of StarDoc 134 s software. Due to major changes in WWIV and the SysOp s knowledge there has been ... brand RAMSOFT which provided a number of BBS door programs and SysOp Utilities. The BBS allowed ... more details
and downloading , the capability to host BBS door programs, and a sysop to user chat mode. ref READ.ME ... would not develop the product. The source was sold again to Dennis Berry, a GT Power sysop. In late ... sysops to run a BBS on a voice line ver. 13.00 a user maintenance program, called SYSOP ver. 15.00 ... by James Davis, followed later by Sysop Tools , written by Chris Smith. Both were later replaced by the P & M SYSOP program. Unlike SYSOP, Sysop Tools had an ANSI style DOS graphic user interface ... external message readers, allowing the sysop to read & enter messages locally without logging in to the BBS ... and received files at the same time will shorten the length of dial up netmail calls, saving the sysop ... more details
Pagan Occult Distribution System Network PODSnet was a Neopaganism neopagan occult computer network of Pagan Sysops and Sysops carrying Pagan Magickal Occult oriented echoes operating on an international basis, with FidoNet FIDO Nodes in Australia, Canada, Germany, the U.K., and across the USA. PODSnet grew rapidly, and at its height, was the largest privately distributed network of Pagans, Occultists, and other people of an esoteric bent on this planet. ref name pods http www.textfiles.com bbs BBSLISTS pods.rul , PODS Rules ref Origins PODSnet grew out of an echomail area public forum Echo named MAGICK on FidoNet , which was created by http www.infamousbrad.com J. Brad Hicks , the Sysop of the Weirdbase Bulletin board system BBS back in 1985. ref name BradHicks http www.infamousbrad.com , J. Brad Hicks FAQ ref ref name file18 http www.holysmoke.org wb mail wb0111.htm , File 18 ref MAGICK was the 8th Echo conference created on FidoNet ref name BradHicks . It quickly grew to 12 systems, and then went international when the first Canadian Pagan Bulletin board system BBS , Solsbury Hill Farrell McGovern, Sysop , joined. This was just a hint of its growth to come. Another early expansion was the addition of two more echoes, MUNDANE and METAPHYSICAL. MUNDANE was created to move all chat that is personal discussions, and other conversations that were of a non pagan or magickal nature. Simulataneously, METAPHYSICAL was created for long, article style posts of information on full rituals, papers and essays of a Pagan, Occult or Magickal nature. These three were bundled as the Magicknet Trio . If a BBS carried one, they had to carry all three. At its height, there were over 50 official echoes that were considered part of the PODSNet backbone, with several others available. ref name pods Structure Similarly to FidoNet, PODSnet was organized into Zones, Regions, Networks, Nodes and Points however, unlike FidoNet, these were not geographically determined, as the individual SysO ... more details
, which could generate Skypix files directly from a familiar looking paint program. All a sysop ... and the average Skyline sysop had many of them on their systems. Skypix was available only on the Amiga ... more details
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