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Textfiles, intended to be transferred from BBS to BBS and user to user, were
the longer-lasting legacy of the 1980's, but a much more fluid portion of
the boards was the true lifeblood of the culture: the messages. Every BBS
has a number of message bases where users could post about whatever they
thought to discuss; debates, rag wars, advertisements, and boasts all
played out the same dramas all over the country and the world. When you logged
onto a BBS, and started reading the bases you had access to, you could get a
sense, almost immediately, of what the "character" of the board was. Some
were dictatorships, some were insane asylums, some were office buildings.
In the files below, you will get a glimpse of these wonderous worlds that
affected mine and others' lives, and the steady stream of mind-to-mind
communication that shot out of a thousand nighttime modems.
The Alan Weston BBS Message Collection (1990-1996)
Message Bases from the Alter Reality BBS (1989-1991)
Message Bases from the Backwater BBS (Unsorted)
Message Bases from Alex Wetmore's YABBS (1994)
MESSAGE: Tradewars Informationn, by Stephen Whitis (March 5, 1994)
MESSAGE: Tradewars Information by Stephen Whitis (March 5, 1994)
MESSAGE: Tradewars Information, by Stephen Whitis (March 5, 1994)
MESSAGE: Tradeware Information, by Stephen Whitis (March 5, 1994)
Some BBS Messages about Hacking, December of 1984
Postings from an Anarchy Sub-Board, Telegard Conference, Late 1991
Postings to the Anonymous Attic on the 1985 BBS, May, 1984
Messages from the Apple Pirate board on Sherwood Forest II, 1985
The America Online Project Avatar Posts Archive (June 28, 1992)
Message Base with Ads for BBS's, 1985
LODCOM: Selected Messages from Black Ice Private (April-May 1989)
LODCOM: Large Sampling of Messages for the LODCOM Project
Postings to the Bombs Message Base from the South Pole BBS
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics, by Micah Holmes (February 16, 1994)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (The Bruces) by Saul Ansbacher (March 23, 1994)
CAPTURE: Text Capture of Brutal, early Danish Hack/Phreak BBS by FIgaro (1992)
BBS Messages: Johnny Dagger and friends build a story late one night (1993)
BBS MESSAGES: The Bull Creek BBS in Austin, TX (Sysop: Mark Bryant) Messages from 1986
Some Messages Preceeding a BBS Piracy Bust (September 27, 1991)
Discussion of the Modem Tax on the Channel 1 BBS (August, 1993)
GodNet General Chatter Message base (February, 1993)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (I Like Chinese) from Micah Holmes (March 15, 1994)
Some Postings from The Inner Circle about Blue Boxing
Citadel Explains the Citadel-TOPx Log Files from 1996 (2002)
Log Files of TOP BBS (January, 1996)
Log Files of TOP BBS (January, 1996)
Log Files of TOP BBS (January, 1996)
The Color Box, from the Aluminum Gerbil (40 Columns, Uppercase)
CAPTURE: The Computer Connection BBS (1982)
CAPTURE: The Computer Connection BBS (1982)
CAPTURE: The Computer Connection BBS (1982)
CAPTURE: The Computer Connection BBS (1982)
The GodNet Conspiracy Theory Echo (June, 1993)
Extracts from the Corrupt Computing BBS
Submission for mod.telecom ("Crashing" a Central Office) (April 26, 1987)
How Someone Harassed Someone Else on FidoNet
Messages from a "Cracking" BBS Conference, August, 1994
Cyberpunk BBS Message Base (Early 1991)
Online Cyberpunk Role-Playing BBS (March 1991)
MESSAGE: A Little Poem of Death by Robert (October 2, 1993)
MESSAGE: An Ode to Death, by Sysop III (October 19, 1993)
The Debate Den Message Board on the Safehouse BBS
BUFFER: Messages on a Diversi-Dial, Late 1980's
Capture from a Dr. Who Converence, (May 1992)
Additional Captured Messages from a Dr. Who Conference (May 1992)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics by Micah Holmes (Eric the Half a Bee) (February 17, 1994)
24 msgs on The Feather's Quill (A BBS Story Board)
Pyrotechnic BBS Message Base (May-July 1984)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (The Galaxy Song), from Jason Levine (March 1, 1994)
All sorts of interesting snippets
BBS Messages: The Compost Heap, Hacking Sub-Board, March 1986
LODCOM: Selected Messages from The Hack Shack BBS
A Very Large Flamewar on a Usenet Message Base in West-Germany
The BBS Flamewar travels to USENET...</I>
Collection of Hacking and Phreaking Codes on a BBS Message Base (November-December, 1991)
Capture of a Gaming BBS Message Base, Circa 1990
Hacker Messages from PC-Pursuit NetExchange BBS (February 1988)
Messages from the Pyromania Section of a Citadel BBS (June 1990)
LODCOM: Selected Messages from the Inner Realm of Communications BBS (IROC)
A Large Collection of Jerky-Related BBS Messages and Files (1994)
The Works BBS Endless Story File
Message Base about Luding on the 1985 BBS
BBS Messages from Kind Bud's Hemp Discussion Corner
A Great Message by The Slipped Disk
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Bright Side of Life) from Micah Holmes (March 8, 1994)
Lodcom Sample Messages Set #1, 4/20/93
LODCOM: Internal Release about the LODCOM Project, as well as LOD Messages
Complete Smattering of Messages, October
Posts on the Luding Message base from 1985 BBS, Feb.
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Lumberjack Song), from Jim Maciorowski (February 14, 1994)
Wares, Cracking and Pirating Messages, November
"General" to "Elite Phreak", November
Messages from a Pagan Fidonet Echo, February 1988
Messages from a Pagan Fidonet Echo, February 1988 (Part II)
Collection of Messages from the Junk Drawer BBS
Messages from The Modem Test BBS (Sysop: Charles "Chuck" Hood) (1993)
A Capture of Textfiles and Messages from The Morgue BBS (March, 1985)
The Movie Review Alcove Message Base of the 1985 BBS
Messages from Nurses in Bondage
More Messages from Nurses in Bondage
And Yet More Nurses In Bondage
Messages about the IBM PS/2 1991 Forum (April 18, 1991)
LODCOM: Selected Messages from the P-80 BBS (January-March 1984)
LODCOM: Selected Messages from the P-80 BBS (March 1984)
BBS Messages about the Supreme Court and Peyote
The Philosophy Message Base of 1985 BBS, circa 1984
The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #1
The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #2
The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #3
General Phreaking Message Base
Posting of Mesages on Pagan/Occult BBS (Rules for the Conference)
MESSAGES: Capture of messages from the QBBS Support Board (April 12, 1988)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Brave Sir Robin), from Jason Levine (February 19, 1994)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Knights of the Round Table) from Michah Holmes (February 23, 1994)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Sit on my Face), from Jeff Stokes (March 6, 1994)
More weird writings by the Slipped Disk
What the Hell is a Snurgle? (BBS Postings)
Software Reviews Message Base (July, 1991)
MESSAGE: The Spam Sketch (Monty Python) from Richard Cote (March 11, 1994)
MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Every Sperm is Sacred) from Micah Holmes (March 10, 1994)
Inter-WWIV Posting about Star Trek
Goodbye Message from the Off the Wall BBS
Message Base: Can Sysops Sue Their Users?
MESSAGE: The Sysop Soung (Monty Python Parody) by Mark Williams (February 19, 1994)
Pretty bleak Dr. Who BBS Conference ..15 Minute Time limit...
Basic Telecommunications Message Base by The Videosmith
Message Captured from the Telenet PC Pursuit Net Exchange BBS (February 1988)
Star Trek Message Board from The Safehouse, 1984
MESSAGES: Messages from the Tender Trap BBS Circa May, 1990, by Dream Hunter Rem (1990)
Large BBS Ad Message Base List (January 1991)
Messages about Viruses on a FidoNet board
Messages about Viruses on a FidoNet board
Messages: Virus Discussion, 1991
Mish-Mash Collection of Various Phreaking Textfiles, 1990
LODCOM: Selected Messages from WOPR BBS (December 1984)
MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages
MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages (Prodigy)
MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages (Prophecy)
MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)
MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)
MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)
It is very important to give credit where it's due; in 1993-1994, the
remaining members of the Legion of Doom, now called LOD Communications,
decided to take on a vast project of bringing the past to the BBS users
of the present. They would do this by transcribing BBS messages from all
the most popular and active phreaking and hacking boards of the 1980s
and presenting them in their original 40 or 80 column format, all the
spelling and grammatical errors intact, and giving a profile of the
boards the messages came from. In many ways, textfiles.com had the same
idea, 6 years later. The project got underway, but never really achieved
the nationwide/mass acceptance it was supposed to, and these important
files were in danger of being lost a second time.
I'm pleased to be a part of bringing many of these files back to you,
and give a bow to these pioneers of BBS nostalgia/history.