The Flying Circus
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"The Flying Circus --- a name chosen due to my previously chosen
handle Python --- was a hobby BBS I ran locally in my hometown of
Longview, TX, while I was in high school. It was never on FidoNet,
and in fact few in my hometown were that I'm aware of at that
time. Regular internet access at the time was also not that
common. So the community on my BBS was really just a bunch of
local people who also populated a few related local BBSs, and this
made up most of our online lives, though some of us also met up in
person from time to time. I remember being especially proud of the
simple and what I thought was elegant lay out of the BBS, and for
the lively message boards, where I encouraged discussion of
politics and religion, especially hot bed topics in deep East
Texas. However, looking back on it was very much an amateur
affair; mostly it was just a place for our circle of online
friends to communicate (well, and play TradeWars). I still have
the basic skeleton on my hard drive to this day, though Telegard
won't run under linux so I can't actually see it work, and the
extensive message boards got off-loaded to floppies years ago in
the days when hard disk space was at a premium and I couldn't
afford to keep them. But I can view the ANSI graphics, and it
brought a smile to my face. My fiancee asked me recently how long
my longest online friendship lasted, and given that I've recently
stumbled across some of the old crowd on Facebook, I'd have to say
around 20 years." - John Beavers (Python)

Phone   : 903-758-3399
Place   : Longview, TX
Years   : 1992 - 1994
Sysop   : John Beavers
Handles : Python
Software: Telegard

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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