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  • Lost "Works" of the BBS era

    From Dmxrob@VERT/GUARDIAN to All on Sat Apr 14 10:15:06 2018
    Reading the discussion on here regarding trying to register doors and such where the author is long gone got me to thinking about all the lost "works" of the BBS era. While its true we've been lucky to preserve some of this, there are countless CD's, floppies and probably even tapes slowly degrading around the world of millions of lines of code, probably billions and billions of lines of old message posts and countless works of ANSI/Ascii art.

    Having "re-discovered" the hobby BBS scene it really has me thinking about seeing what I might have left for that era and making it available. I have seen a few threads in some discussions about even taking entire BBS systems from back then and making them a door as sort of a "stuck-in-time" museum.

    Reminds me of an article I read about how society in general is entering into this period Vint Cerf of Google referred to as the "Digital Dark Ages" because we are failing to preserve a lot of communications, and those we are preservering are going to be in obsolete tech formats. (Google's Vint Cert Warns of Digital Dark Age, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389).


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dmxrob on Sun Apr 15 08:52:12 2018
    Re: Lost "Works" of the BBS era
    By: Dmxrob to All on Sat Apr 14 2018 10:15 am

    Having "re-discovered" the hobby BBS scene it really has me thinking about seeing what I might have left for that era and making it available. I have seen a few threads in some discussions about even taking entire BBS systems from back then and making them a door as sort of a "stuck-in-time" museum.

    Several of us were wise enough to make CD/DVD snapshots of our BBSes; it might be worth setting up the old BBS as a door for posterity's sake.

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 16 07:23:00 2018
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dmxrob <=-

    Several of us were wise enough to make CD/DVD snapshots of our BBSes;
    it might be worth setting up the old BBS as a door for posterity's
    sake.

    I have one of our original BBS kicking around somewhere. :)


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