RIP Jack Rickard of Boardwatch Magazine reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manager_dave · 2020-09-12 02:07 Used to love that magazine! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-12 02:26 Me too, I used to love it. I finally got around to watching the bbs documentary and saw his interview. Thought I would look him up and saw he just died :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Convecticus · 2020-09-12 10:56 I've occasionally gone back to various Boardwatch magazines (I've loved talking about seeing an IPAD ad in one of the magazines, as well as an article about Amazon.com when they were starting out as a bookseller and they claimed, oh, that they'd not be engaging in drop shipping.). I do remember being sad that he went away from the magazine in 1998, as it lost a lot of its flavor after that (but in retrospect, he probably extracted maximum value, which is great). And there are various times when I'd think, "I wonder what Jack Rickard would think about this?", considering all of his rants about POTS, and talking about the telecom landscape, both actual and ideal. I'm inclined to think I probably would have strenuously disagreed with him on a variety of issues, but I also imagine that he probably would've been interesting to talk to, even assuming that. So, RIP, indeed, and thanks for sharing the post, because I wouldn't have known. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-09-12 13:34 Always sad to lose another member of our shrinking community ❤️ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-12 14:08 It is fascinating to go back and read some old issues where the letters section was pages long and he was always talking about the approaching internet tsunami. Also it is a trip to read all the old bbs ads. I used to look forward to this magazine every month..I wished I had kept them be at least a few are on archive.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dflyguy · 2020-09-12 22:45 I broke out some of my old magazines to show my 14 yr old a couple years ago and we got a good laugh at the internet references. I remember running up a $500 phone bill calling a bbs I found in this magazine because I didn’t know that not every prefix in my area code wasn’t local. Boy did my old man flip his shit 😬 https://i.imgur.com/UEkg8FR.jpg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2020-09-14 04:05 I’ve got a large collection of these that I will be giving out as rewards for various things on the bcrgames.com:31337 server and at bitsunrise.com —- RIP the legend... stay tuned for details. I’ll post in the next few weeks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-14 13:22 Just a thought, it would be great if those could be scanned and given to archive org, they only have like 10 issues currently ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2020-09-14 20:54 I was planning on scanning them as well before hand. I’m not sure the best way without messing up the spines. Any good suggestions that won’t take forever? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-14 21:28 Yeah I have no idea the best way to go about scanning them :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Uberazza · 2020-10-08 10:47 If you cant be fucked or have the ability, im sure there are others out there that would really appreciate if you found someone that could do that.