IPTIA Fidonet/Usenet Message Archive
reddit / bbs

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DigitalGoose · 2021-04-20 08:34

Found via this post on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860062

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manager_dave · 2021-04-20 12:24

very cool, thank for sharing!

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banksy_h8r · 2021-04-20 12:36

I love that there's just random conversations from nearly 25 years ago
[like this one](http://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/view.plx?sch
ema=echoes&id=1560&echo=80xxx) available at the click of a button.

I wonder how our understanding of history would be if we had a
Fidonet/Usenet archive from, say, 1800 BC.

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tallship · 2021-04-20 15:58

Very kewl, I found my BBS on that site too. Looks like Vger was
originally listed there just a couple of months ago and they're adding
more all the time.

A wealth of other info too which augments and documents the growing
resurgence in BBS computing.

Did I already say, "Really kewl"?

I ping therefore I am. I like that.

As the joke goes, when Descartes was asked by the counter girl at
McDonald's, "Would you like fries with that?", He replied, "I ping
not", and suddenly **Poof!** He was gone.

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Iron_Slug · 2021-04-20 19:17

Glad you like the site.  We're looking for more messages and BBSes to
document.  Any help would be appreciated.

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crappyboy · 2021-04-21 01:26

Hmm no alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die ?

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mct1 · 2021-05-03 23:57

Something like...

**15 Mar 44 BC 13:41**
*"Sic Semper Tyrannis!"* - Marcus Junius Brutus

**15 Mar 44 BC 13:45**
*"Oh fuck off, you daft cunt, you didn't even lift a finger against
him!"* - Plutarch

**15 Mar 44 BC 13:47**
*"Want to increase the size of your b3n1s? Click here to find out how
with this ONE EASY TRICK..."* - MakeDenariiFast

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banksy_h8r · 2021-05-04 00:16

LOL!  I think that would lead to a much better and realistic
understanding of humanity.  Less romantic visions of history, but at
least we'd be able to relate better.