I was looking at Textfiles.com when I ran across a large archive of old bbs systems. I think I remember reading that TOTSE started as one of these BBS's.

Here's the stupid question. Are any of these old BBS's from the 80's and 90's still active (or at least accissible?)

question 2: Are the online and TOLL FREE possibly???

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Originally posted by Galvaplex:
I was looking at Textfiles.com when I ran across a large archive of old bbs systems. I think I remember reading that TOTSE started as one of these BBS's.

Here's the stupid question. Are any of these old BBS's from the 80's and 90's still active (or at least accissible?)

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Yes totse used to be a Dialup. And yes there are many 1980-90s Dialup BBS still available. If you have any windows Platforms such as win95,98,NT,ME,XP you can access these sites through a program called Telnet.exe or something telnet.

telnet uses the internet to connect to these old dialups. Lets you connect to them without physically dialing into them.

or you can just use your 56k modem and find the number and dial in. Warning, it takes a long time to connect. and its pretty annoying. you also have to know how to use the Menu Keys. each BBS software uses different keys.

Only one way to find out...there's still plenty of bbs's to telnet to if dial up don't work. If your worried about cost, well, thats what the old beige box is for.

Well, if you missed the boat the first time around, there's really no point in trying to catch up.

The BBS's of old were cool at the time. Now they're slow and annoying. Even a well designed Remote Access system will make me want to kill someone.

Just let it go man. Just let it go.

I'm so sad I always wanted to visit a dialup.

its like going to see a doctor and asking him to put leeches on your infectous wound.

I dunno. Lunatix was fun.

My brother was a fan of the BB'S i think he was a regular on a hacking one or something like that round at his friends place. He had alot of fun doing that he was saying "i used to be on a BB'S and get stoned" Ah the days of when it was cool to havea ripped demin jacket and the snes was the best thing since the megadrive.

Peace Renegade,

I wish I still had my demin jean jacket.

And a bully in a film had a feather in his ear and wore shades with a golf glove.

*Tears begin to role down my cheek*

No not really my substitue to those days are my 80's movies collection.

Peace Renegade,

Sincerley Yours "The Breakfast Club"

I'm just sorry I missed out on the experence.

Hey any one know the area code and city that totse used?I belive the state was california.

Can someone tell me why we aren't living in the 80's? That time seems so much cooler.

From what i have seen, people tend to want to relive the time period when they were growing up. For me, i liked the early nineties. I loved the SNES and Genesis. The gameboy was awesome, i loved the neon colored clothes(a florida thing...) and AOL was awesome back then.

snes...no no no...SES! Yes I still have that somewhere along with my bro's atari...

I should have been alive in the 80's. All sorts of cool shit happened then. Textfiles, BBS's, Transformers...who could forget the Transformers? More than meets the eye...

err, sorry. Got off track. *cough*

Forget the sega genises, I still have my sega master system.

And my ninja turtles.

Oh yes...Ninja turtles ,Ghostbusters,and Batman comics.....

^And Optimus Prime could step on all of them in an instant.

Size isn't everything.
You ever see how much shit the ghostbusters could get into their containment unit.
The turtles would climb all over it and tear out the wiring.
And of course Batman could have done the simple but effective ElectroMagnetic Pulse.

I swear I'm not a child.

Even still, there are a helluva lot more Autobots where that came from.

I loved the TMNTs and Ghostbusters too, BTW.

hmmm 80's to young thank fucking god i agree with eth0 early 90s dont forget grunge music

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Originally posted by tr0g:
its like going to see a doctor and asking him to put leeches on your infectous wound.

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I take back everything bad I've said about tr0g, EVER.

Or did somebody smart and funny steal his password and start posting as him?

There is still a vital place for leeches in modern medicine. They are used to drain blood from areas while normal blood vessels are healing. They also produce half a dozen anti-coagulants used in medicine.

And like leeches, bullitan boards still have their place. I know gateway runs a bullitan board so that people with modems but no internet can get software updates.

TSi was still running a telnet version last I heard... But Thrash is a flaky bastard so maybe not.