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  • BBS: The Documentary

    From Peter London@21:3/242 to All on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 00:35:02

    I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door
    Games.

    Al's Retro Geek Lab's covered door games in one of his "Back to the BBS" episodes.

    https://youtu.be/snpbAEN4I6M?si=pfH_-MPUG51Xw9DX

    Good stuff :).


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Geri Atricks on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 18:32:08
    Geri Atricks wrote to All <=-

    Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering
    some of these people that are no longer with us.

    I have the soundtrack in my car - it's all creative-commons licenses
    music, available on the bbsdocumentary web site.



    ... SURELY NOT EVERYONE WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING
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  • From Geri Atricks@21:3/235 to Peter London on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 00:41:44
    Al's Retro Geek Lab's covered door games in one of his "Back to the BBS" episodes.

    Thanks Peter, I was trying to remember the other web series about BBS' and was having a total brain fart.
    ---

    -Dallas Vinson

    ... The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

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    * Origin: Legends of Yesteryear (21:3/235)
  • From Peter London@21:3/242 to All on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 09:35:01

    Thanks Peter, I was trying to remember the other web series about BBS' having a total brain fart.

    Gotcha :D. Yeah it's a good one. I re-watched it, or rather re-listened to
    it, last night. Inspiring series for sure..


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Mortar M. on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 03:47:11
    Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: Mortar M. to Nightfox (21:1/137) on Tue Jul 28 2026 11:32 am

    Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?


    I don't know.. No idea what would have happened. :/
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    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Mortar M. on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 03:48:05
    Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: Mortar M. to Nightfox (21:1/137) on Tue Jul 28 2026 11:32 am

    Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?


    I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view the message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up as you had quoted..
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From slacker@21:3/193 to Mortar M. on Thursday, July 30, 2026 18:22:02
    Why are these all wrapped into one
    big blob?

    Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.


    --- NE BBS v2.03 (linux; x64)
    * Origin: NE BBS - nebbs.servehttp.com:9223 (21:3/193)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to slacker on Thursday, July 30, 2026 18:14:47
    Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: slacker to Mortar M. on Thu Jul 30 2026 06:22 pm

    Why are these all wrapped into one
    big blob?

    Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.

    Does this reply look okay? I'm wondering if it was an isolated issue.

    Nightfox
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    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From slacker@21:3/193 to Nightfox on Friday, July 31, 2026 02:38:58
    Does this reply look okay? I'm
    wondering if it was an isolated
    issue.

    Yep! Reply looks good here. That was the only odd message I noticed on my end.


    --- NE BBS v2.03 (linux; x64)
    * Origin: NE BBS - nebbs.servehttp.com:9223 (21:3/193)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to slacker on Thursday, July 30, 2026 22:07:19
    Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: slacker to Nightfox on Fri Jul 31 2026 02:38 am

    Does this reply look okay? I'm
    wondering if it was an isolated
    issue.

    Yep! Reply looks good here. That was the only odd message I noticed on my end.


    Good to hear. Thanks for confirming.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Saturday, August 01, 2026 11:23:17
    Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: Nightfox to slacker on Thu Jul 30 2026 18:14:47

    Why are these all wrapped into one
    big blob?

    Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.

    Does this reply look okay? I'm wondering if it was an isolated issue.

    This is how I got it, so yep.
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (21:2/101)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Mortar M. (21:2/101) on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 23:05:30
    Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Nightfox (21:1/137) to All on Tue Jul 28 2026 14:10:03 > Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 > pm GA> Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering > some GA> of these people that are no longer with us. GA> I'm just curious > why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.I discovered & > watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think > Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social > impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door > games, software, etc..Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?
    --- bbs.homes
    * Origin: bbs.homes (21:3/250)


    Looks like bbs.homes is burping them back out like that.



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    * Origin: capitolcityonlinet.net * KY, USA (21:1/175)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 14:12:14
    Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: Mortar M. to Nightfox (21:1/137) on Tue Jul 28 2026 11:32 am

    Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?


    I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view the message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up as you had quoted..


    The ones that are "blobbed" are/were being burped out by another system in net 3. The original from your system looked fine here, too.


    --- ScorpioWeb v0.37a (Linux/x86_64)
    * Origin: capitolcityonlinet.net * KY, USA (21:1/175)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, August 04, 2026 18:54:46
    Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
    By: Dumas Walker to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2026 02:12 pm

    I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view
    the
    message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up
    as you had quoted..

    The ones that are "blobbed" are/were being burped out by another system in net 3. The original from your system looked fine here, too.

    Ah, good to hear.

    Also, when you say those were from another system in net 3, did multiple copies of my message get onto the network somehow?

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Nightfox on Wednesday, August 05, 2026 14:53:30

    The ones that are "blobbed" are/were being burped out by another system in
    net 3. The original from your system looked fine here, too.

    Ah, good to hear.

    Also, when you say those were from another system in net 3, did multiple copies of my message get onto the network somehow?


    I think you had a couple of messages get duped like while it was happening. I spoke of plural because you were not the only one whose messages got duped/blobbed. It didn't seem to happen to every message posted during that time, but it did randomly seem to pick up a few.


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    * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * KY, USA (21:1/175)
  • From phigan@21:3/193 to Nightfox on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 15:09:16
    Does this reply look okay? I'm wondering if it was an isolated issue.

    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

    The message that was bunched together said it was from a different system, not yours. It said bbs.homes, or something.


    --- NE BBS v2.05 (linux; x64)
    * Origin: NE BBS - nebbs.servehttp.com:9223 (21:3/193)