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I had fun looking around the system, user
accounts (you wouldn't believe
how funny some people's passwords are,
or how silly), creating new
boards out of nowhere, and generally running
amuck in a polite manner.
I remember the day that Lankmar decided
to play a joke on Vamp (by this
time known online as Seraphine) in the
system log. Whenever you did a
'dosshell' from remote access, it kept
a log of every keystroke you hit.
It didn't let you do a whole lot though.
So Lankmar typed in (from a
dos-shell prompt) "format c: hahahahaha"
and hit return. Oops. There
are a lot of useful things that the dos-shell
remote access won't let
you do, and there's one BIG bad thing
that it WILL let you do. Like
format the C: drive.
I've met many people and long time friends
from BBSing. BBSing's even
gotten me laid. (And ANYTHING that
gets you laid when you're 16 is a
good, good thing.) I remember the
days of bowling for getting together,
the very random parties, and later, organized
events even. I met a
whole lot of people from the boards at
Rocky Horror, where I was every
weekend in fishnets, playing a character
in the movie. That's where I
met a long-time friend, Axe-Handle.
I stood up in his wedding two weeks
ago.
BBSing was a wonderful thing in my life.
I can't say that I miss it
greatly, but it was one of the things
the Internet was before it was the
internet. I still see a lot of the
old BBS people in my every day life,
as old friends. But I still miss
The Pit. <g>
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