Electric Dreams is not _quite_ dead: New interview with Josh Renaud
reddit / bbs

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Kirkman14 · 2015-09-08 19:57

Mike interviewed me for the Electric Dreams BBS podcast back in March.
We talked about how I got into BBSing, my old Atari XE and ST
computers, the "Thieves' Guild" door game, and much more.

Unfortunately, after just a few episodes, he had to call it quits. My
episode never saw the light of day ... until now.

Mike graciously sent me the audio of our interview. I originally
intended to post the raw interview on Break Into Chat. But after
listening, I grew dissatisfied with my excessive pausing and filler
words.

I decided to take a stab at editing it. I managed to carve 15 minutes
out of the original 1:10 interview. I hope you'll find the end result
tight and interesting.

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ebookit · 2015-09-10 00:41

Yeah Wikipedia went crazy deleting the BBS stuff.

I remember citing magazines about certain BBS doors, and some
Wikipedia editor wanted me to postal mail the magazine to him so he
could read it. It was a collector's edition and I wasn't giving it up.
The they said the magazine citation is no good because it isn't on the
Internet and anything not on the Internet could not be verified.

I voted against deletion, but most of the people voting to delete the
BBS articles were born way after the BBS doors went out of style and
never played them, so they didn't find them notable.

I complained about it, but eventually I was locked out of my account
and possibly banned from Wikipedia because of it.

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mro_1337 · 2015-09-16 05:47

he is just a regular joe. he has no right to demand that you send him
something.

wikipedia is a  mmorpg. most of its work is plagiarized.  i suggest
against using it.

regarding deletions, even if you do 'save' an article, they will go
back months later and still nuke it.