Thanks!

Puke · #1 February 23rd, 2001, 03:37 AM

sit back a while lads, and harken back to the good old days when there were WWIV Boards and VBBS and others, you knew which one were the pirate Boards, and you could tell who hackers and phreakers were just by how they typed and the kinds of things they knew.

man, has it gotten wierd with the internet. 1337 W4R3Z d00dZ and other wierd **** has popped up out of nowhere, and man, look how polite some of them have gotten. I wonder if they switch back to 1337 speak when they get their .exe's back to the USENET and IRC chanels where they hide out, or if they stay this polite the whole time.

Possum · #2 February 23rd, 2001, 03:46 AM

Yeah, Puke, I remember those days. I ran VBBS myself, rather than WWIV, but it was all the same. I ran a BBS for about three years before the web really took off, and I had a personal internet account back when there were still no ads on the web. Of course, there wasn't all that much ELSE on the web back in those days, either

I agree that it was not technically correct for whoever to have sent him the EXE, but I'm also pretty convinced that Ubik is legit.

Puke · #3 February 23rd, 2001, 04:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Possum:
Yeah, Puke, I remember those days. I ran VBBS myself, rather than WWIV, but it was all the same. I ran a BBS for about three years before the web really took off, and I had a personal internet account back when there were still no ads on the web. Of course, there wasn't all that much ELSE on the web back in those days, either

Dude, you're from SD? I grew up there, what board did you run? Im trying to remeber all the BBS hang outs, all that comes to mind right now are The Mental Playground BBS and Hell and Beyond BBS. oh yeah, they are coming back to me now.. Schrodinger's Cat Box; No Name Yet BBS (nameless for about 5 years); Oasis... god, there used to be a two page fine-print list of them in that monthly free computer magazine, whatever it was called.

did you guys know there is a commercial massivly-multiplayer-Online sequel of Trade Wars comming out 3rd quarter this year called Dark Millenium, and there is a open source Online Version of TW2002 you can play from a web based java-app?

mofo888 · #4 February 23rd, 2001, 04:21 AM

Tradewars!! Oh my god, that game ate up most
of my life back at Univ. I think I lived and played Tradewars for 5-8 hours a day!

damn, and a new Version is coming out??

** must resist ** must resist **

Darwin · #5 February 23rd, 2001, 04:35 AM

*Slamming head against Wall*

phalen · #6 February 23rd, 2001, 05:32 AM

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM trade wars......... feringal home world here i come....... hehe

tobad i lost my reged copy of tw 2.x

phalen · #7 February 23rd, 2001, 05:35 AM

<me drools at prospect of new ver> humm is the same creator working on it... if so i may have to pop in