Sonic Interzone
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Sonic Interzone 416-276-0552 / 416-966-???? and others. (moved 4
times in 416.) The BBS was originally setup in 1987 to discuss
music and counterculture, and originally started as the name
Quicksilver and then Alternate Diversions (which attracted an
interesting userbase, which opened up my 16y old eyes to
subcultures most kids my age didnt know about back then before the
net, and maybe even still not, due to internet narrowcasting...).
While running modified Dircon software on my C64 (mods added by
myself,Chris Lang, Wayne Ogaki and others), we added boardboard
netmail (like punter) with our own protocol including filesharing
et al. Not gaining enough popularity, we caved and went to
punternet.
"Eventually the purchase of an Amiga (with 880k Floppies!) moved
me to PCBBS where it was most active (200 msgs/day or more, pretty
active for a single line/single msg rea BBS with one line and no
mail download), it ran for a year on amiga until the donation of a
286-AT with an 80 meg (!) drive moved me to use PC software and
eventually fall into fidonet. Furthermore my university exposure
to the internet in 1988 made me seek out a UUCP-mail capable
extension to the board via Waffle.
"After running the board on various PC software BBS packages, it
went entirely Waffle around 1990 or 91, though various BBS doors
were hacked onto it such as Empire, Risk and Tradewars (for which
I wrote TWMAP, the first tradewars mapping aid program, won a
competition on a major multiline TW BBS with it, admitted to using
it, was disqualified, and then a dozen versions of the same idea
came out).
"The board changed numbers in Jan 92. (Dont remember the #). In
May 1992, a serial line to my new Linux machine was installed to
allow people to login to it for UUCP mail as it had taken over the
job. In fall 92, the board was moved entirely to Linux, and UUCP
mail and newsgroups. This was the beginning of the end, due to the
internet and the deluge of email and newsgroups which drowned the
unique community out entirely that was on my board. Only some
small satisfaction can be gained via realising my newgrp Usenet
msgs made it out to the internet and a few sizone.* newsgroups
floated around for years on bigger usenet feeds.
"The popularity of the internet, and flagging calls to the board
and contributions to local groups kinda slowly killed the board.
People could read what they wanted on the internet, thinking this
was a great thing, not realising that communities are made up of
people with differing opinions and interests from all walks of
life, instead of those people that share exact same backgrounds,
opinions and interests. I kept it running through 1998, though
from 97 onwards it was really a ghost of its former self, only
serving to give people who were too cheap or couldnt afford
internet access some access to internet mail. Eventually the cost
of the extra phoneline wasnt worth it, and a year later high speed
cable modems were out, and that was the end of that. I have copies
of various chunks of the BBS on 5.25" and 3.25" floppies from the
C64 and Amiga days, as well as the entire Linux version still on
my linux box now (but non operational of course)." - Ken Chase

Phone   : 416-276-0552
Years   : 1990 - 1992
Sysop   : Ken Chase

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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