WTFlip .... it looks like Netscape Navigator ....is the the internet 'old folks' home?

Just kidding; i bought a winchester disk once , with floppies like vynil LPs!

Kids these days with their fancy floppies.. In my day we still used paper tape and punchcards!

:)

Thu Mar 10 2022 09:19:49 EST from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Happy 34th birthday Uncensored

It's March 10, and you know what that means...

Time to bake a yummy cake and put 34 candles in it to celebrate the anniversary of day on which UNCENSORED! was first brought online.

On 1988-mar-10, I plugged a 2400 baud modem into an Altos 586 computer and began what has been 34 years of continuous operation of this service since then.  Let's take the time to celebrate that, because just about everything else is far less important.  It continues to be my pleasure to serve the community with both the site and the software.

YES! COnGrATS! It's not often that someone celebrates wasting that much effort and wasting that much electricity!

JK JK Just Kidding...  I cut my BBS teeth on the cp/m version of citadel because as a kid I was piss broke. I had to sell lots of magazines and deliver lots of newspapers to indignant senior citizens whilst saving up for my first 300 baud modem that my parents thought was the work of the devil.

Turns out they were correct. I learned that delivering newspapers- and selling magazines- and manual servitude- just to buy a glorified Morse code key tapper- was for the phucking birds. Good thing I figured out how to get paid $1000 for $.00000001 worth of effort. I'm too lazy for it to have a different ending.

Long live Citadel. Useless fact: We all know that some pronounced "SysOp" as "sigh-sop". Believe it or not, I was actually a participant in 2600 meetings where I heard people pronounce it as "sigh-tay-del".  That actually happened in the philly area also. In Philly, the word "Jawn" is a placeholder noun,  and can be used for anything, really. Not to get off topic but at real life Philly Diversi-Dial get togethers (big picnic of chatnerds like furries without costumes) could be heard people mentioning "sigh-tay-del".

I don't really know where I was going with this. I talk so much that I've learned to tune myself out, I probably had a very good point at the onset of this post.

Happy Birthday, software that makes us volunteer thoughts we might otherwise dismiss.

Sat Apr 02 2022 01:12:00 AM EDT from smashbot64 Subject: Re: Happy 34th birthday Uncensored

  

JK JK Just Kidding...  I cut my BBS teeth on the cp/m version of citadel because as a kid I was piss broke. I had to sell lots of magazines and deliver lots of newspapers to indignant senior citizens whilst saving up for my first 300 baud modem that my parents thought was the work of the devil.

 

Mine were a bit more understanding, 'we dont know what any of this means, but if its what  you want to do'.   Tho keep in mind this was the late 70s.. it was pretty foreign to most people.

Mother was a long distance directory assistance operator however, so she did have at least a basic understanding of the concept of 'electronic stuff'.  

Different world today than it was back then.  Few of us could have imagined where we would be at today. 

Mon Apr 04 2022 09:20:01 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Happy 34th birthday Uncensored

For those who don't know, I was 16 years old when I first set this up. I'm 50 now. So far it's been a wild ride.

Well, 2022 - 34 = 1988

So yes, i would say it was here in the 80s. With a little room to spare before the 90s kicked in.

LoL

"peek a boo, guess who"