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― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.acc.umu.se/~handbok/07_filformat/pkzip.gif

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking the other day, for no particular reason, about how PK drank himself to death. It was pretty big local news at the time, so I read all about it in the paper-- sad stuff.

― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

pkunzip sq3.zip /u /r

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Yea, :(

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

does anyone remember .ARC files? i think that was PK's, too, and the standard compression scheme until someone tried to steal it out from under PK in some crafty legal shenanigan, at which point PK was like "well, it was time to come up with some better compression, anyway -- you keep .arc, i'll make zip files.. and put my initials on them just so no one gets any more bright ideas" -- at least that's how i remember it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

ick. all this is bringing back memories of 2600 baud modems.

tradewars.

FIDOnet.

_*RAZOR*_.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

*2400* you mean!!!!

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah. my bad. i'm mixing it up with alt.2600, which a coupla my BBS buddies read regularly.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

me too

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

XMODEM

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

N,8,1

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

AT&F&C1&D3

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Thank you for this thread, JW. Anyone remember X-Tree Gold and its integrated zip file support? That blew my fucking mind.

XMODEM

I'll raise you a HSLINK - you could chat with the sysop while performing simultaneous uploads and downloads!

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

I think everyone I've met online locally used Cafe Chrome BBS at some point or another.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Add me to that list, Trayce.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Aahahah! I bloody knew it ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I havent seen Cefiar in ages.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

anyone run a WWIV board?

― Colin M. Saunders, Friday, 21 October 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

+++ATH0

― PWNED (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Laplink!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

kermit

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

upload/download ratio

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

gopher

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

gopher.msu.edu --> my gateway to the internet in 1993. Animaniacs sound clips galore!

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

"It's a pun you dumb gophers!"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

My internet access was a hacked account on a cisco that could do ppp for like 5 years!

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there something called SLIRP that turned a SLIP connection into a full connection? Useful at library terminals, etc?

I bet I've got it all mixed up with something else, right?

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

i remember staying up all night during my last night in the dorms during freshman year trying to get WinSock to work. It finally connected properly around 5AM. Oh, life in May, 1995.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

No, SLIRP turned a unix shell account into a SLIP session

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

ANSI Dude Board and Pickle BBS | New ANSIs | FIDOnet | Tradewars

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

No, SLIRP turned a unix shell account into a SLIP session

Yeah, that's it. Now did that happen by "escaping" the shell or by creating a shell within a shell?

Does that question even make sense?

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

What it did was present SLIP on the terminal line. The application was a standard UNIX app. It would take outgoing packets and translate them into system calls to connect(). etc

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I also remember first ordering cd's from cdconnection (which is still around) via telnet on a library terminal about eleven years ago. And--also circa 1994-- daisychaining several regional library networks to reach and read an abstract of my old MFA thesis. This was all much more fun for being so ham-radio-like and esoteric.

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

This also reminds me of playing two player deathmatch doom through a serial cable.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thezone.net/webpoint/warcraft/Images/screen1b.gif

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I always feared those rare occasions where the sysop would answer the phone and you could hear their distorted voice through the PC speaker. "Hello? Hello?"

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

or when your housemate would pick up the phone & you'd be knocked off.

then you'd try to dial again during their call just to fuck with them, and you could hear them stomping down the hall to bang on your door.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

my friends and i undertook a MASSIVE wardialing campaign in like 1994 to find all dialups in like MA and RI.

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately wardialing is/was prohibitively expensive in Australia. (all locals are 25 cents flatrate)

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 22 October 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

TELEGARD

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

finger

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

My ANSI scenestering back in the day cost me a bit in long distance phone calls to various boards. The internet was both a blessing and a curse in that regard because everyone stopped calling boards and started using IRC. With no more boards, nobody did ANSI anymore and it all because a bunch of high resolution shit I knew nothing about. KIDS THESE DAYS AND THEIR FANCY INTERNETS.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

it certain ways, i'm glad i got net-saavy when i did. '94-'95 seemed like bbses started to phase out vs using the net.

of course, there was always w43rz, and it took a coupla more years for the net to catch up.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Actually, warez on the net was kickass in the early 90's. It was only later that it was squashed by its own popularity, and only recently with the advent of bittorrent has the scene really flourished again.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Yea, I had way better warez on the net in the early 90s. The combination of my hacked dialups on academic dial pools, cracked shell accounts, IRC, private FTPs at american universities and anonymous read/write directories on big sites.... amazing. We pwned a local high school's bsdi machine that had a dialup pool. They had ISDN and then a T1 which was totally usable for our group at night. Amazing!!!!

― hax0r 1994 (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Ah, the good old days. How I miss them so.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

i remember one of my friends was a pro at making door.exe games give him l33t privs

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

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