film The Fourth World War unreferenced date May 2009 original research date December 2010 WWIV ... and aesthetics. WWIV also allowed tens of thousands of BBSes to link together, forming a worldwide ... date December 2010 citation needed date December 2010 related to forum management. Origins WWIV started ... the software with 25 of his friends. As the popularity of WWIV spread in the mid 1980s, for practical ... who was interested in their own BBS. This encouraged sysops to develop new features for WWIV, and these ideas ... the 2.0 version, Borland updated the compiler to the 3.0 and 3.1 versions WWIV s versions were revised ... to be used with WWIV without having to add the new source code for the game and then recompiling the entire ... for the Pascal versions. Until WWIV version 5.x, WWIV was written in C programming language C . For the open source release, WWIV was converted to C . Bell also modified the base source so that multiple ... user databases. This was done to not only allow multiple line BBSs to exist using WWIV, but to allow all WWIV sysops to access their own BBS without having to wait for a user to log off and or be rude ... the OS 2 Warp Warp version became a popular choice for some WWIV sysops, as the default two ... with ease. In the BBS world, WWIV was referred to sometimes as the only killer app for OS 2, and it wasn t even written for it . Citation needed date October 2007 WWIV did run well even in Microsoft ... with Windows 3.1. WWIV also ran well under Quarterdesk s DESQview and DESQVIEW X multitasking shells ... network, WWIVnet , allowing all WWIV boards to link to each other. Bell also took the opportunity to try .... The ability to modify WWIV as a sysop saw fit was one of its selling points something that RBBS ... availability was not lost on the thousands of WWIV sysops, who had begun to regard Bell as a cross ..., which encouraged the growth of alternative WWIV based networks. This also generated a subculture of unregistered WWIV boards, which at its peak represented a multiple of the number of officially registered ... more details
Image wwivcon.jpg thumb right Wayne Bell left and Kaz Vorpal , at the 1996 WWIVCon Wayne Bell was the creator of the WWIV Bulletin board system BBS system. The First WWIV BBS went online in Los Angeles, CA in December 1984. His own BBS came to be named Amber, node 1 of the WWIVNet BBS network. Wayne continued to own and develop WWIV software for over a decade, becoming an iconic figure in the online world, before the privatization and subsequent expansion off the Internet caused the BBS world to fade in the mid to late nineties. Wayne eventually sold WWIV, retaining his career as a computer technician. Clips of an interview with Bell appear as part of BBS The Documentary . References http www.bbsdocumentary.com library CONTROVERSY EVENTS WWIVWAR Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bell, Wayne ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bell, Wayne Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category American computer programmers US compu bio stub pam Wayne Bell computer specialist ... more details
than a Floppy disk could hold and a 20mb hard drive was installed on the BBS computer. WWIV 4.x In 1994 StarDoc 134 started running WWIV 4.x. WWIV written in C provided a much more expandable and robust ... of ram with 40mbs of storage. As WWIV evolved so did StarDoc 134, doors and modules were updated to expand ... up based BBS s. WWIV 5.x Running on a new fast Pentium 90 MHz, 16mb of memory, 500mb hard drive and screaming fast 56k modem StarDoc 134 briefly re opened its doors in 2003 with WWIV under a telnet ... 134 one again threw open its doors, attempting to run an early port of WWIV 5.00 Under Linux, but again due to heavy software problems with WWIV 5 under Linux the board was forced to make a change. EleBBS ... of StarDoc 134 s software. Due to major changes in WWIV and the SysOp s knowledge there has been a strong pull to bring the BBS back to its original WWIV face. However time limitations and a devotion ... 134 was used as a testbed for many new modifications and program changes to the WWIV BBS community, submitting many mods over the 6 years that it ran WWIV. The BBS also was a registration point for the software ... 134 was one of the first and only WWIV BBS s to support online credit card processing for software ... wwiv.sourceforge.net WWIV BBS Home Category Bulletin board system software Category DOS software Category ... more details
Waffle is a Bulletin Board System bulletin board system created by Soylent Communications Tom Dell which ran under DOS and later UNIX . The software was unique in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported UUCP on the DOS platform. A Usenet news group named comp.bbs.waffle was created for discussion of the Waffle BBS System. The last version seems to be v1.65. It was possible to link Waffle under DOS to Fidonet and WWIV using external gateway utilities. External links http www.faqs.org faqs waffle faq comp.bbs.waffle FAQ http www.simtel.net product.php 5Bid 5D52140 5Bsekid 5D0 5BSiteID 5Dsimtel.net Waffle v1.65 still available from http www.simtel.net Simtel http software.bbsdocumentary.com IBM DOS WAFFLE More history Category Bulletin board system software Category Network protocols Category Usenet Network software stub es Waffle sistema computacional ... 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
originally as a WWIV chain a way of calling external programs which was a part of Turbo Pascal 3 and one ..., and he was apparently a DC Comics fan . Its original name was TW2 for WWIV and it shared no source code with the Sherrick version, which was written in Basic. Another WWIV sysop B0b OM Mosley ..., Mosley released the source code for the game and editor, which allowed fellow WWIV sysop Gary ... made was influenced by changes in the BBS software &mdash WWIV author Wayne Bell computer specialist Wayne Bell had rewritten the WWIV BBS System using Turbo C instead of Turbo Pascal. This meant that classic ... more details
refimprove date January 2012 The Z Netz was a German Bulletin board system BBS network applying store and forward mechanisms to provide their users with e mail and discussion groups. It can be compared to the U.S. based WWIV network or the international FidoNet . The technical base for the Z Netz was the software Zerberus . Initially the network was called Zerberus Netz or just Zerberus . When other software applying the ZConnect data transfer method became available, the network was renamed to Z Netz to reflect that. Zerberus was developed since 1984. It was later maintained by the Zerberus GmbH , which was founded in 1992 and dissolved in 1999. Several Z Netz operators maintained gateways into other networks, most notably the Usenet , and even forwarded Z Netz e mail to the Internet and vice versa. With internet access becoming easily available in Germany in the late 90s the Z Netz began to vanish. External Links http www.z netz.de Inofficial Z Netz Homepage German http www.zerberus.com Homepage of the former Zerberus GmbH German Based in part on the German Wikipedia article for Z Netz Category Bulletin board systems compu network stub de Z Netz ... more details
Gamze Elif Ula born February 26, 1986 is a Turkish people Turkish figure skating figure skater , ice hockey player and member of the newly established Turkish national women s ice hockey team . She playing forward. Elif Ula became second in the juniors category at the 2001 Turkey Figure Skating Championships, ref http 209.85.135.104 search?q cache lRzdOM9nrOoJ arsiv.hurriyetim.com.tr hur turk 01 01 28 spor 79spo.htm gamze elif ula &hl tr&ct clnk&cd 6&gl tr&client firefox a Newspaper H rriyet January 28, 2001 tr icon ref and participated at international ice skating events such as Golden Bear of Zagreb and Copenhagen Trophy in figure skating branch. ref http www.buzpateni.com bilanco turk 01 02.htm Ice skating website tr icon ref She scored Turkey s first ever goal in the match against Estonia 1 14 on March 27, 2007 during the 2007 Women s World Ice Hockey Championships Group IV Women s World Ice Hockey Championships, Group IV held in Miercurea Ciuc , Romania . ref http www.iihf.com Hydra Tournaments 07 output wwiv hydra.iihf.com data iihf output xml 119 IHW119905 74 1 0.pdfIntenational Ice Hockey Federation 2007 Championship ref Elif Ula is a member of the Milenyum in Ankara . References reflist br Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ulas, Elif ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Figure skater and ice hockey player DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1986 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ulas, Elif Category 1986 births Category Turkish ice hockey players Category Living people Category Place of birth missing living people Category Turkish figure skaters Category Turkish sportswomen Turkey sport bio stub Euro icehockey bio stub euro figure skating bio stub it Elif Ula ... more details
Infobox Radio Station name WAPI FM image city Helena, Alabama area Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa Central Alabama branding 100 WAPI slogan Birmingham s Talk FM airdate 100.5 FM 1991, as WLXY originally on 100.7 FM WJOX 1993, as WWIV frequency 100.5 megahertz MHz format News Talk erp 69,000 watt s haat 309.1 meters class C1 facility id 70914 callsign meaning former callsigns WLXY 1991 2003 br WANZ 2003 2005 br WRAX 2005 2006 br WJOX 2006 2008 br WWMM 2008 2010 ref name fcc1 owner Cumulus Media sister stations WAPI AM WAPI , WJOX , WJOX FM , WUHT , WZRR webcast http player.streamtheworld.com players citadel ?sid 3069 Listen Live website http www.100wapi.com 100WAPI.com WAPI FM 100.5 FM broadcasting FM , 100 WAPI is a news talk radio station licensed to Birmingham suburb of Helena, Alabama , which serves Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham and central Alabama . It shares a full time simulcast with WAPI AM WAPI AM 1070 AM , and is the Birmingham affiliate for the Auburn University Auburn ISP Sports Network. The station is owned by Cumulus Media . The station was assigned the WAPI FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 22, 2010. ref name fcc1 cite web title Call Sign History url http fjallfoss.fcc.gov cgi bin ws.exe prod cdbs pubacc prod call hist.pl?Facility id 70914&Callsign WWMM work FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database ref This is the second station serving the Birmingham market to hold the WAPI FM call sign. From 1958 until 1994, the station currently known as WJOX FM was known as WAPI FM. History of WAPI FM The forerunner of WAPI FM signed on at 105.9 FM in the summer of 1993 as WWIV, licensed to Trussville, Alabama Trussville , a suburb east of Birmingham. Originally, WWIV was a simulcast of WXJC AM WYDE AM , which at the time was a talk radio station. After a few months, WWIV became WWBR and was known on the air as 105 9 the Bear . WWBR was an album rock active rock station. While the format of the s ... more details
name c2c History Origin of the license The WERC FM license debuted in 1993 as WWIV , and originally ... at 3,000 watts power. For a brief time, WWIV served as a simulcast of then co owned WYDE 850 AM, now WXJC AM WXJC , which at the time was a news talk station. That October, WWIV changed its call sign ... more details
NOTOC Hermes is the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology Hermes Trismegistus Hermes the thrice greatest , the Greek name for the Egyptian god Thoth Hermes can also refer to Astronomy Hermes, the Greek name for the planet Mercury planet Mercury , as it appeared in the evening sky 69230 Hermes , a binary near Earth asteroid rediscovered in 2003 Business Herm s , a Paris based, high fashion luxury goods manufacturer Hermes cover , a German export credit guarantee scheme EFG Hermes Holding Company , an Egyptian financial group Hermes Abrasives , a German based abrasive manufacturer Computing HERMES A MINOTAUR , also known as Project HERMES , the first internet to orbit gateway Hermes BBS , a Macintosh based bulletin board system that was similar to MS DOS based WWIV Hermes programming language , a distributed programming language developed at IBM s Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 through 1992 Hermes Project , a C Python library comprising algorithms for rapid prototyping of adaptive higher order modular finite element system solvers Hopkins Electronic Resources ManagEment System, an electronic resource management system at Johns Hopkins University a mass spectrometry data format s converter software Clarify date December 2010 reason what is relation to hermes ? HTC Hermes, the production code name for the HTC TyTN WLAN chipset by Agere, see ORiNOCO Clarify date December 2010 reason what is link to hermes ? Fictional characters Hermes, a talking motorcycle in the anime Kino s Journey Hermes Conrad , a character in the animated television series Futurama Hermes Harry Potter , Percy Weasley s owl in the Harry Potter series Hermes Marvel Comics , a Marvel Comics character People Hermes Pan choreographer 1910&ndash 1990 , American dancer and choreographer Andreas Hermes 1878&ndash 1964 , German politician Carli Herm s born 1963 , Dutch photographer and commercial director Georg Hermes 1775&ndash 1831 , German Roman Catholic philosopher and theo ... more details
Infobox software name Renegade logo screenshot caption developer Cott Lang, Patrick Spence, Gary Hall, Lee Palmer, T.J. McMillen released July 1993 latest release version 1.18a DOS latest release date March 26, 2011 latest preview version latest preview date operating system MS DOS genre Bulletin board system license website http renegadebbs.info Renegade is a freeware bulletin board system BBS written for IBM PC compatible computers running MS DOS that gained popularity among hobbyist BBSes in the early to mid 1990s. It was originally written by Cott Lang in Pascal programming language Pascal , based on the source code of Telegard , which was in turn based on the earlier WWIV . Transfer of control On April 23, 1997, after the decline of BBS popularity, Lang ceased development work on Renegade and passed it on to two Renegade BBS utility authors Patrick Spence and Gary Hall. Spence and Hall maintained Renegade for three years, releasing three updates with their new, ISO 8601 Ordinal dates ordinal date version scheme. Jeff Herrings, another former third party software developer, was handed the source by Spence in January 2000 after offering help when he found there was no Year 2000 problem Y2K compliant version of the software. Herrings released a public alpha version of Renegade in March 2000 addressing Y2K compliance problems. He stepped down as active programmer in October 2001 citing lack of time and desire. Herrings released his Y2K compliant source code to the public via the Dreamland BBS in September 2005 and stated he did so because he felt betrayed by Patrick Spence regarding a personal matter and as such felt it was right for the source to be released to the general public. ref cite web url http www.bbsdocumentary.com software IBM DOS RENEGADE herrings.txt title Resignation of Herrings first Jeff last Herrings date October 7, 2001 ref Spence eventually handed the program over to Corey Snow in 2002, who intended to release an open source , Java Platform Java ... more details
Infobox software name Virtual Advanced logo screenshot caption developer Roland De Graaf released 1990 latest release version 2.10 latest release date latest preview version latest preview date operating system MS DOS OS 2 platform genre Bulletin board system license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.virtualc.com defunct VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System . It was a shareware bulletin board system BBS for DOS and later OS 2 that was conceived by Roland De Graaf in 1990. Written from scratch in QuickBASIC , it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV , but quickly grew into an original BBS concept on its own. By 1993, there were thousands of computers running VBBS around the world. VirtualNET, the largest VBBS message network, had close to 1500 members by version 6.14 in 1993. Up to this time, VBBS remained shareware , but in 1994 Roland released version 7.0 as a commercial product. The lifetime registrations of prior versions were not honored for this version and required anyone who wished to use this version to pay. While some did decide to pay again for the upgrade, others became unsatisfied and began looking for other alternatives. There would not be another release of VBBS. Instead, Roland switched gears again in 1995. He released Virtual Advanced VADV as the successor to VBBS. VADV contained many improvements to the old system. One notable feature was a much more powerful scripting language. It was a step forward for the software but once again SysOps were required to purchase the new software. Virtual Advanced would finally reach version 2.10. This version along with its companion, the Virtual Internet Survivor Kit VISK v1.30, would show that it indeed was advanced for its time. With the growing trend of the Internet, VADV now supported features such as POP3 , SMTP , NNTP , WWW and Finger Unix Finger . Ultimately, with the rise of the Internet , costs of upgrades and tensions within the support network, V ... more details
Refimprove date May 2009 Primary sources article date May 2009 WWIVnet was a Bulletin board system BBS network for WWIV based BBSes. It was created by Wayne Bell computer specialist Wayne Bell on December 1, 1987. ref http www.textfiles.com bbs WWIVNEWS wwiv9101.txt WWIVnews Specific History of the creation of WWIVnet on December 1, 1987. textfiles.com. ref Network layout WWIVnet consisted of several participating BBSes, each referenced by a unique number called a node number. Originally, WWIVnet nodes were numbered by area code. The format was TXYZZ , where X and Y were the first and last digits of the area code, and ZZ was a number that ranged from 00 to 49 in area codes with a middle digit of 0, or a number between 50 99 in area codes with a middle digit of 1. The T portion of the node number was only used if a particular area code ran out of node numbers in their assigned range and needed more, the T would become 1. Thus, node 5802 would be a node in the 508 area code, and node 12263 would be a node in a very busy 212 area code. This numbering system worked well until the telephone systems began using area codes that used numbers other than 1 or 0 as the middle digit. When this occurred, WWIVnet realized it had to change its numbering system so a group based system was adopted, where node numbers would change to an XZZZ system. In this system, X would be the group number, and ZZZ would be the system number under that group. The network s administration was set up where every area code had an Area Coordinator AC which was responsible for maintaining information about the nodes in their area code. The AC reported to the Group Coordinator GC , which was responsible for updating the node lists for the area codes under them. The GC reported to the Network Coordinator NC , who was responsible for sending out node list updates. The NC was the person who was ultimately in charge of WWIVnet. The network structure, however, had everything to do with administration but not ... more details
in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG network Animax airdate 2004 02 07 season 2 number 4 ref Background WWIV ... airdate 2004 07 03 season 2 number 14 ref Post WWIV In 2nd GIG , Saito would later recount that the Major ... more details
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Portal Free software Infobox software name Synchronet logo screenshot Deleted image removed Image sbbsctrl.png thumb deletable image caption 1 Thursday, 13 August 2009 caption Synchronet Control Panel in Windows XP environment. Server windows display status on telnet email ftp web nntp IRC other services latest release version 3.15b latest release date October 17, 2011 latest preview version 3.16 latest preview date October 20, 2011 developer Rob Swindell, others. operating system Cross platform genre Bulletin board system license GNU General Public License GPLv2 GNU Lesser General Public License LGPLv2 website http www.synchro.net Synchronet is a multiplatform bulletin board system BBS software package, with current porting port s for Microsoft Windows , Linux , and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS DOS and OS 2 , but support for those platforms has been dropped in recent versions. History Synchronet was originally written by Rob Swindell Aka initialism a.k.a. Digital Man due to his dissatisfaction with the lack of certain features in WWIV , such as support for multiple simultaneous nodes, batch upload s and bidirectional protocol for file transfer file transfer . The bulk of the programming for the first version of Synchronet was done during a two month period in 1991 when Swindell was house ridden while he recovered from surgery. The software was named for its ability to run Synchronization computer science synchronously on a computer network network . In July 1991 the author began running his own BBS, Vertrauen, on Synchronet. Initially, he had no intention of releasing Synchronet publicly, but as word of his software spread and he received offers to buy copies of Synchronet, he eventually relented, formed a company called Digital Dynamics, and sold copies of Synchronet at a price of 100 without source code , and 200 with source code. In April 1992, Swindell s employer went out of business and he began to rely exclusively on commercial sales of Synchron ... more details
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