Hi folks,

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...

I might have previously gone under the names of tekhammer or
SpiroDotgeek. But what's in a name?

Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

Currently freezing my tiddies off down here in NZ..
:O


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Hi folks,

Hey Joe!

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...
Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

Great to have you along! What's your board deets?

Currently freezing my tiddies off down here in NZ..
:O

Same here dude! I'm in Wellington. Where are you based? My Mate had fricken SNOW in Upper Hutt earlir this week!!! Not cool.... (well, it's bloody cool!).

Chur,
Al


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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Great to have you along! What's your board deets?

Thanks very much. It's @ lostunderground.org

Same here dude! I'm in Wellington. Where are you based? My Mate had
fricken
SNOW in Upper Hutt earlir this week!!! Not cool.... (well, it's bloody cool!).

Hi Al, haha wasn't expecting someone local. :) Damn this BBS thing must
really be making a comeback. haha

I'm in Wellington too. Wainui in fact. :) And people keep telling me it
was snow, but I just thought it was hail. Not that I was too keen to
check it out. I was working from home, and only went out to go and
collect my new bins. Other than that I would have just stayed in front of
the fireplace (which I should be doing now) ignoring the outside world.

Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL

Well now, this is relevant to my interests. :)


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Hello JOE.

02 Jul 21 20:30, you wrote to All:

Hi folks,

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...

I might have previously gone under the names of tekhammer or
SpiroDotgeek. But what's in a name?

Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up
to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

Currently freezing my tiddies off down here in NZ..
:O

Hi Joe, and welcome back! :)

--
Daniel

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On 07/03/2021 12:30 pm JOE DOOM said...

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...

I thought I had that Doom feeling coming on.... it's like an Omen or something.... "JOE DOOM BACK ON THE SCENE"
WELCOME BACK!


On 07/03/2021 12:30 pm JOE DOOM said...

Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

SAWEET!
Glad to have you around!
-= Nuke =-

--
~Nuke SYSOP Westwood BBS II King George VA USA
nuke@21:3/134 (fsx) 25:25/19 (metro) nuke@westwoodbbs.net (new crap)
telnet westwoodbbs.net 8888 (ssh 8889)
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Hello Joe!

On 02 Jul 2021, JOE DOOM said the following...

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...

Welcome back! Glad to have you here!

Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

Sounds like a nice setup! =)

Best regards
Zip

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On 02 Jul 2021 at 08:30p, JOE DOOM pondered and said...

Hi folks,

I'm Joe Doom and I'm back on the scene after about 5 years away...

Joe Dooooom.... I think it should have more of a reverb on it :)

Running a new board and have now seemed to have successfully hooked up to fsxNet and HAPPYnet, and running Talisman. :)

Nice to see you back in the swim good sir.

Currently freezing my tiddies off down here in NZ..

You are not the only one... Oh and you may want to say hi to Hyjinx who is
also in your part of the world and runs 'Als Geek Lab' on YouTube :)

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On 02 Jul 2021 at 09:13p, hyjinx pondered and said...

Currently freezing my tiddies off down here in NZ..
:O

Same here dude! I'm in Wellington. Where are you based? My Mate had

I should have read all the replies first... coolness to see you two connect here :)

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Hi Joe, and welcome back! :)

Thanks Daniel. :)


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I thought I had that Doom feeling coming on.... it's like an Omen or something.... "JOE DOOM BACK ON THE SCENE"
WELCOME BACK!

haha thanks Nuke.

We probably shouldn't get together in the same room or it could be bad for humanity. ;)

Or we could start a band: JOE DOOM AND THE NUKES!

This has potential. hahaha


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Welcome back! Glad to have you here!
Sounds like a nice setup! =)

Thanks Zip. Yeah, it's not too bad for a spur of the moment thing. :)

And wow, I've missed so much! Business is booming in the BBS world now.
Was real quiet when I left.

So many BBS packages are getting updated now too. It was hard to choose.

Civilisation seems to have really dawned after the BBS Apocalypse.


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Joe Dooooom.... I think it should have more of a reverb on it :)

:)

Nice to see you back in the swim good sir.

Thank you very much. :) It's good to be back.

You are not the only one... Oh and you may want to say hi to Hyjinx
who is
also in your part of the world and runs 'Als Geek Lab' on YouTube :)

Thanks, I have met him and am watching his very excellent documentary
series inbetween posts.



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Hello JOE!

On 03 Jul 2021, JOE DOOM said the following...

And wow, I've missed so much! Business is booming in the BBS world now. Was real quiet when I left.

Yep, I also noticed this -- *lots* of people starting up their BBSes again, and lots of new ones, too!

So many BBS packages are getting updated now too. It was hard to choose.

I used to run RemoteAccess in the 90s, but thought it would be better to go for some "native" Linux software when reviving my BBS. Still much of a stock install, but with some ANSI stuff from the old BBS, and have been working on getting some FTNs connected and things working correctly rather than customizing too much... at least yet. :)

Best regards
Zip

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Yep, I also noticed this -- *lots* of people starting up their BBSes
again, and lots of new ones, too!

Yeah, tat's really awesome, and I think that Avon's Youtube videos as
well as Hyjinx's more recent Back to the BBS documentary must be helping
in some big part. I saw that others have been making Youtube videos too
(but haven't watched them yet) and I think that's great. It makes it so
much easier to follow along and really understand what's going on with
setups.

I used to run RemoteAccess in the 90s, but thought it would be better
to go for some "native" Linux software when reviving my BBS. Still
much of a stock install, but with some ANSI stuff from the old BBS,
and have been working on getting some FTNs connected and things
working correctly rather than customizing too much... at least yet. :)

Same here for the customisations. I'm not very good with ANSI, so hope to commission someone once I figure out what I want from them. :)

In the 90s I ran all sorts (as long as they were free haha). So many of
my friends were running Searchlight, but as soon as I saw it cost money I
noped out of there. :)

But I ran boards on PCs and on Acorns and I think I tested one on an
Amiga but don't think I ever went live with it.

I do remember my main boards which were running Telegard, Renegade, and eventually a locally made one called Pobble. I've never been able to find
that software again and I think the developer moved overseas. But I
remember it having an amazing message reader and scanner. From memory it
was similar to the current index readers ... way way before its time.

Then when I got into the telnet BBS scene (around 2013? I think), I ran
Mystic. I really like it and what g00r00 has done but felt the need for
change and more experimentation, so went with Talisman this time around.

After watching the Back to the BBS documentary, I'm wondering about
Legacy/X (which I can't find--their wiki refers to an INSTALL.ZIP which
isn't linked anywhere), or even setting up a board on an Amiga. It'd have
to be on an emulator though because I got rid of all my Amiga hardware
a couple of years ago. :(



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On 02 Jul 2021, JOE DOOM said the following...

Great to have you along! What's your board deets?

Thanks very much. It's @ lostunderground.org

Sweet! I've signed up for an account! Great to have another NZ board! I
wonder how many there are now (must be more than just you, me and Avon!).

Hi Al, haha wasn't expecting someone local. :) Damn this BBS thing must really be making a comeback. haha

Isn't it great that it is?!

I'm in Wellington too. Wainui in fact. :) And people keep telling me it was snow, but I just thought it was hail. Not that I was too keen to
check it out. I was working from home, and only went out to go and

Wow! Mind blown! We should catch up for a yarn at some point, there can't be too many BBSers cutting around in Wellington!

Well now, this is relevant to my interests. :)

Hope you enjoy the series! New one coming soon.

Cheers,
Al


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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Sweet! I've signed up for an account! Great to have another NZ board!
wonder how many there are now (must be more than just you, me and
Avon!).

:) cheers. Yeah there are a few others, but I'm embarrassed to admit I
haven't checked them out this time around. They're on my todo list.

Wow! Mind blown! We should catch up for a yarn at some point, there
can't be
too many BBSers cutting around in Wellington!

Yeah for sure.. It'd good to know if there are.. You think they're
reading this and chuckling at us silently? hehe

When I was on facebook, I had organised a semi-regular meetup for old
BBSers from back in the day. At the time (maybe 6 years ago?) I ran a
board back then too, but couldn't get people logging in and caring.. even
if it wasn't my board.. they seem to have done their dash and that was
the way to communicate at the time, but now it's facebook.

But I did make some great friendships from the dial-in BBS days which are basically most of my friends today. :) and we had some good catchups..

I could probably rustle up a few of them to go to a boozer much easier
than getting them to log into a telnet BBS tho. ;)

Hope you enjoy the series! New one coming soon.

Fantastic! Yes I binge watched the whole thing! Looking forward to more :)


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Hey JoE,

:) cheers. Yeah there are a few others, but I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't checked them out this time around. They're on my todo list.

When you do, let me know what they were like, because I don't even know them.

Wow! Mind blown! We should catch up for a yarn at some point, there can't be
too many BBSers cutting around in Wellington!

Yeah for sure.. It'd good to know if there are.. You think they're
reading this and chuckling at us silently? hehe

Quite likely! I live in J'ville, are you through my way often-ish? If so, we could meet up at 1841 bar, or I could pop out to the Hutt :)

When I was on facebook, I had organised a semi-regular meetup for old BBSers from back in the day. At the time (maybe 6 years ago?) I ran a board back then too, but couldn't get people logging in and caring.. even if it wasn't my board.. they seem to have done their dash and that was
the way to communicate at the time, but now it's facebook.

I have seen some (global) changes in attitude in the last 1.5 years that way though. I myself have pretty much given up on Facebook and I know a lot of others have too, some of us that are of the BBS era are using BBSes much more now than they did back in Facebook's heyday (i.e. around 6 years ago!). So,
if mighht be worth reaching out again...

I could probably rustle up a few of them to go to a boozer much easier than getting them to log into a telnet BBS tho. ;)

ain't nothing wrong with a trip to the boozer neither ;)

Cheers,
Al


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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On 23 Jul 2021 at 01:04p, hyjinx pondered and said...

Quite likely! I live in J'ville, are you through my way often-ish? If
so, we could meet up at 1841 bar, or I could pop out to the Hutt :)

If you both end up meeting I'm going throw my name in the hat for a meetup sometime too... I don't get up to Welly that often but if/when I do I'd let
you both know :)

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I have seen some (global) changes in attitude in the last 1.5 years that way though. I myself have pretty much given up on Facebook and I know a lot of others have too, some of us that are of the BBS era are using
BBSes much more now than they did back in Facebook's heyday (i.e. around
6 years ago!). So, if mighht be worth reaching out again...

Yep i am the same way. I almost never use Fecesbook accept for ocasionally messager for txting family. Sometimes if there is an important development in the UFO Disclosure community, i will post an article to Fecesbook. just like this article here: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/us-navy-inventions-change-reality

but ya, Fecesbook is on a decline. everyone no longer trusts any of those EvilCorp platforms anymore. Originally Fecesbook was a Darpa / CIA project called "LifeLog" the day that Fecesbook went live, LifeLog closed its doors.
so basicly it was a hand off of a Darpa CIA project from Dev to Prod. and
they hired whats his name to be the front man for it.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

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EvilCorp platforms anymore. Originally Fecesbook was a Darpa / CIA
project called "LifeLog" the day that Fecesbook went live, LifeLog
closed its doors. so basicly it was a hand off of a Darpa CIA project
from Dev to Prod. and they hired whats his name to be the front man for

This sounds like a reasonable conspiracy theory, but I tend to assume that it was a hormonal guy trying to figure out an easy way to hit on/creep on women.

But I say that without remembering what the actual story is, nor having any great interest in watching the movie they made about it. (not, of course,
that movies "based-on-real-events" or whatever are anything more than, "hey, this gave me a great idea for a movie plot!")

Though now this makes me think of the almost-entirely-unrelated King of Kong "biography" that Jason Scott panned as being more fictionalized story than biography.

But then later we found out that Billy Mitchell really did begin cheating at some point, so perhaps the villainy was somewhat deserved.

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Quite likely! I live in J'ville, are you through my way often-ish? If
so, we
could meet up at 1841 bar, or I could pop out to the Hutt :)

I don't leave the house much, but am vehicularly mobile. :)

I'll ping you a netmail.

I have seen some (global) changes in attitude in the last 1.5 years
that way
though. I myself have pretty much given up on Facebook and I know a
lot of
others have too, some of us that are of the BBS era are using BBSes
much more
now than they did back in Facebook's heyday (i.e. around 6 years
ago!). So,
if mighht be worth reaching out again...

I'll ring a few people and see what the response is. Hopefully now if the weather starts getting warmer (or less cold at least) I might be able to convince a few people to have a catch up.

ain't nothing wrong with a trip to the boozer neither ;)

:)



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If you both end up meeting I'm going throw my name in the hat for a
meetup
sometime too... I don't get up to Welly that often but if/when I do
I'd let
you both know :)

That would be excellent to finally meet you in person. :)


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On 07 Aug 2021 at 08:53a, JoE DooM pondered and said...

That would be excellent to finally meet you in person. :)

Same I think it would be cool to do.

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