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BBS News: SHUTDOWN

The HMVH Corporation BBS is shut down as of right now! The post BBS News: SHUTDOWN appeared first on Basement Archaeology.

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Roblist

If you lived in South Africa during the eighties or nineties and used your modem to dial into services beyond Beltel, then you surely would have heard of or used Roblist. If you were a SysOp, you...

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BBS ads and ANSi screens

Permit me to show off a small and personal selection of old BBS Adverts and ANSi Screens for your retro viewing pleasure. Continue reading → The post BBS ads and ANSi screens appeared first on Basement...

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Woman laughing alone with salad

There's no viewing images online such as on this very web page. If you wanted (to view) an image file, you would have to manually select (tag) it and then launch a protocol such as Z-Modem to download...

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The SA BBS Scene

Here's a memorial page dedicated to anecdotes, bulletins, documents, essays, images, lists, memories, nostalgia, photos, and related matter recollecting the South African bulletin board scene of the...

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The story of the HMVH Corporation BBS

The illustrated, unadulterated, and shamelessly long-winded personal memoir of a ten-year journey through the South African BBS scene. Continue reading → The post The story of the HMVH Corporation BBS...

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Revisiting the SA BBS Scene

Nor has anyone else been willing to commit their full and sordid BBS stories. It's as if, for some people, the BBS period is a chapter they would rather forget about. Continue reading → The post...

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On Facebook, BBSes and Big Data

Facebook is the unchallenged 800-pound gorilla in the social media arena. It is a people-data aggregator like no other. After discovering a cache of old BBS registration form printouts I decided to...

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