Subj : Hawk Hubbard
To   : All
From : Accession
Date : Sat Jun 29 2024 07:06:56

Hello All,

I'm not good with this kind of stuff, so please bear with me.

As many of you are already aware, Captain Hood aka Hawk Hubbard has passed on a couple days ago from his battle with cancer. It has been mentioned on other networks already, but would be an absolute insult if he wasn't mentioned here, as he was considered a good friend of mine, and one of the founding members of Agoranet, as well as the sole person to urge me to revive it back in 2012.

It came as a bit of a surprise to me, as I followed what I thought was his progress on Facebook. He was hospitalized for a bit, and friends from all over (including the BBS scene) were offering to and ordering door dash for him delivered right to the hospital, when he complained about the hospital food. Soon after, the hospital released him to go home (which I had taken as good news, since he was still posting updates on Facebook), and it seems that within a week or two, he was gone.

Hawk was, by far, the biggest, most prolific supporter of the BBS scene, as well as the art scene, no matter if the two grew apart from each other. He was still able to get some of the artists that stopped BBSing years ago to call his board and at least say hi to the rest of us peasant sysops.

Here is my excerpt I posted about him elsewhere:

Somewhere around 2010-2012, I was learning FTN and had mentioned to him that I was looking to start a message network, but couldn't really decide what I wanted to focus on, or what target audience I wanted to hit. Hawk suggested I 'revive' Agoranet, which was ACiD's official message network back in the 90s. He got me in contact with Radman, who I somewhat already knew from contributing to ACID100, and some of the superjoint ansis we did back then. With Radman's blessing, Agoranet was reborn, and if I remember right, we may have even convinced him to call one of Hawk's boards to make one of the first posts on it.

I assisted Hawk in connecting all of his boards to Agoranet, as he didn't have much experience with FTN at the time. It was a learning experience for me as well, since I was remote desktopping, and going by screenshots, digging through OBV/2, PCBoard, as well as Mystic FTN configurations and whatever else he was running at the time (which were all way behind the times back then - Mystic has come a long way since then). But we had a great time doing it.

We had many conversations on Facebook Messenger, BBS related and otherwise. He was a hell of a guy, always with a positive outlook on everything, and will definitely be missed.

If anyone else has any stories they'd like to share, please feel free to do so in his honor.

Rest in peace, Captain. You will be missed.

Regards,
Nick

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