Originally Posted by ronald
There were some great boards back then. The Mines of Moria, The Safehouse...

I ran a BBS called the Graffiti Board, Ronald. It ran on Express BBS on an Atari 130XE. Almost everything fit into the server's RAMdisk, since I had 128K of RAM. (Or was it more? Maybe I'd expanded it to 320K or so.) We had discussion boards, a big rant from me up front, and some "Cursor Antix" Atari 8-bit graphics cartoons/thingies. (You had to be there to understand.) And if you hung around long enough, the SysOp would break in to chat with you. :)

Averaged 30 calls a day! If only the web existed back then, I'd have sold out for jillions of worthless stock options by now.

Originally Posted by dackampf
We over at 2CPU are hosted by Stomped, and rely on revenue from cZD|Nutz for revenue, but no more...

We are in the process of moving the site, as i type this, to another location.

Good sites never die, they just grow stronger.

Originally Posted by ronald
What was the name of that BBS, Dr. Damage? 300 baud, those were the days. Bulletin boards and cyberspace were like radio, new and wondrous. Then came the \'leap\' from 300 baud to 1200 baud, then 2400 baud and so on. Sweet memories.

Originally Posted by AdamLongWalker
This is depressing.

I have seen this happen in the comic book industry.

I have seen this happen in Rpg Gaming industry (both board and vidieo).

And now I have seen it on the internet.

I hope that TR does not go away anytime soon. I kind of like being Dr. Damage\'s, Dog Soldier. ;)

Yeah, but was that a 300bps half or full duplex? I remember when you'd get a choice between 150 full and 300 half. :( Way back BBS days. Hell, my dad and I were plankowners on Rusty-N-Edie's. :)

'Now with high speed 14.4Kbps connections available!'

If UGO drops us, we lose our Gary Coleman connection. :(

But yeah, I ran a BBS outta my bedroom when I was 14 (300bps baby!). So you could say I've been doing this forever. TR is just a much, much cooler version of the same thing.

Does this mean that I might be able to get a mug shot in with Dr. Damage and Gary Coleman at the next tech expo? :p

they'll be running a BBS out of their bedrooms. ;)

I can see the fundraising MP3 now:

THE TECHMUNKS

Drs. Damage and Evil Sing Your Favorite Tito Puente Hits

(all proceeds go to the purchase of an NV-20 for purposes of review and fragging)