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Hotline Servers... Anyone still use them?
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heebiejeebies
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Whatever happened to Carracho? Does it even exist anymore? And why does everyone keep tip-toeing around the word "Hotline"? Is that like saying "Nig-Nog" in Brixton or something? [
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pee-air
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I don't know if everyone is tip-toeing around the word hotline, or why they would be, if they are, it just seems that all of the "worthwhile" hotline servers have disappeared. I was just thinking that no one really bothered with them anymore. And if that's the case, I was thinking that maybe I would liberate my old G3 from the warez gathering clutches of the evil hotline client software. To paraphrase that enigma of classic American literature, they ain't making no more disk space. [] ]'>
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heebiejeebies
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Yeah, well I was talking mainly about our neighbours in the "Line that is opposite of cold" thread nextdoor. I wish they'd turn their bloody music down. To paraphrase Basil Fawlty: "Don't mention the Hotline! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it!"
heebiejeebies
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I tended to stay away from it, given it had a reputation for being full of some very foul and probably not entirely legal pictures. I'm surprised people stopped using it, I mean people still use Usenet for crying out loud.
heebiejeebies
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Yeah, and some disgusting text-based "special interest" games. I remember one particularly sick and disturbing one called Psycho Killer.
Anonymous Freak
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heh. I remember the joy of upgrading to a 2400 baud modem. I could download ASCII pr0n much faster. :-D
I also love the door game Trade Wars.
I also love the door game Trade Wars.
Temetka
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Dude, I soooo remember my 300 baud modem. I also remember going to 2400, then 9600, 14.4, 28.8 (I skipped the 16.8 and 19.l2 modems) then 33.6 and finally arriving at 56k many years later.
I used to download text files, gif's and stuff back in the day. On my 486 I used a term program called Terminat!. It could play my music CD's (provided I had loaded the driver in config.sys and fired up mscdex.exe). It was the best DOS based term program I have ever used bar none.
TradeWars is responsible for many, many, many lost hours of study time throughout junior high and high school. I even used to run a BBS back in the day, was part of FidoNET and CheeseNET. I cosysop'd many a board and was way, way uber deep into phone freaking.
God I miss those days. Eyes wide with wonder at this new electronic universe that was unfolding and I was a part of it. I do recall hating the internet when it came out. As more and more people signed up with Prodigy, AOL, Compuserve and their ilk, we lost BBS'ers. Eventually the heyday that made up a very large and equally formative portion of my adolescence was to be relegated to nothing more than footnote; a transitional phase between non-networked circles becoming part of the web.
Ahhh, memories.
I used to download text files, gif's and stuff back in the day. On my 486 I used a term program called Terminat!. It could play my music CD's (provided I had loaded the driver in config.sys and fired up mscdex.exe). It was the best DOS based term program I have ever used bar none.
TradeWars is responsible for many, many, many lost hours of study time throughout junior high and high school. I even used to run a BBS back in the day, was part of FidoNET and CheeseNET. I cosysop'd many a board and was way, way uber deep into phone freaking.
God I miss those days. Eyes wide with wonder at this new electronic universe that was unfolding and I was a part of it. I do recall hating the internet when it came out. As more and more people signed up with Prodigy, AOL, Compuserve and their ilk, we lost BBS'ers. Eventually the heyday that made up a very large and equally formative portion of my adolescence was to be relegated to nothing more than footnote; a transitional phase between non-networked circles becoming part of the web.
Ahhh, memories.
pee-air
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There isn't a data sharing protocol on the Internet that isn't full of "some very foul and probably not entirely legal pictures." You ever hear the tune, We Built This City? Well, in that tune, the city was built on rock and roll. The Internet was built on porn. Plain and simple.
If you were a bbs operator in the eighties and nineties, it didn't take you long to realize that the boards that got the most calls were the boards that offered porn. Hell, even our local Mac Users Group ran a First Class bbs with a special porn section for its adult members.
Ever go to a computer trade show back in the eighties to mid-nineties? Back when distributing public domain and shareware on floppy disks for a fee of between $5.00 and $10.00 per disk was the in thing for computer junkies? The biggest section of their PD & Shareware catalogs were the porn sections.
Back when commercial bbs' were still popular, MacUser and, I believe, MacWorld magazines ran ads for porn systems in the back of their magazines. Porn was just as responsible for the adoption of personal computers by consumers as games were.
heebiejeebies
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Well, yeah, but you tended to have it thrust into your face a lot more on Hotline. Almost every second server had at least some porn content. At least on P2P sites you don't get it unless you search for it (except for on Limewire, which can bring up dirty results for just about any search).
