Does anyone remember a BBS called Twisted Reality in the 408 area code from the mid 90s? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2023-04-13 02:26 408 was my stomping ground in the day, but I don't remember it off hand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2023-04-13 02:33 Checked out http://bbslist.textfiles.com/408 but it can't find any called Twisted Reality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2023-04-13 02:35 I did find a link to this ansi ad for it. https://defacto2.net/f/ad3d0f?name=twisted-reality- bbs&src=o&platform=-§ion=-&sort=date_desc It looks like it might have been in the 510 instead of 408. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zerosouls · 2023-04-13 03:59 Thanks for your efforts. Neat that there was one in 510.. maybe he moved or had a different line. I had to dig into an old drive, but I found an ad I saved for it. https://preview.redd.it/lfik58on9mta1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto= webp&v=enabled&s=230a5181b2fcaeb285d90a8418fdfcaeedb08757 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MenloPart · 2023-04-13 08:14 I lived in San José until 1993. Do you think I would have had better BBS options than in Arizona? :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hedgecore77 · 2023-04-13 08:42 Where was it out of? I was 416 but may or may not have phreaked for a bit, officer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Taclink · 2023-04-13 13:06 I actually do, but since I was in Watsonville it was long distance and my parents flipped out about me calling in, even though I had a job and paid the damn long distance I ran up wardialing/bbs'ing. lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2023-04-13 14:04 I really don't know. By the time I left SJ in 97, the BBS scene had pretty much died out. I had no experience with any locals other than the SF Bay Area scene. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- giantsparklerobot · 2023-04-13 14:07 The 408 and 510 area codes are right next to each other in the Bay Area. Moving across the street could cause your area code to change. Remember this was long before numbers were easily portable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- giantsparklerobot · 2023-04-13 14:12 The 408 area code is the Bay Area (South Bay). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jddddddddddd · 2023-04-13 14:58 There are some other hits on textfiles for "twisted reality", but it seems to reference BBS's in other area codes with the same name: [http s://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atextfiles.com+%22twisted+reality%22 ](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atextfiles.com+%22twisted+real ity%22) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-04-13 15:18 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hedgecore77 · 2023-04-13 17:08 Ah, the board name seemed familiar but I never called there... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- germdisco · 2023-04-13 17:53 OS/2 Warp wow, I never came across a BBS on that OS. I saw mostly DOS, Commodore, and maybe one on an Atari computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- germdisco · 2023-04-13 17:54 Did you mean 415? 416 is Toronto ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hedgecore77 · 2023-04-13 18:22 Nope, I was 416 (Toronto) at the time. Well, technically 905 (greater Toronto area). I used to call a few boards in Florida, Boston, and one in Italy thanks to a long-lived PBX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Taclink · 2023-04-14 03:21 Only nearby, since I was right over the hill from Silicon Valley. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Icy_Sand377 · 2023-04-15 16:05 Running on a smooth 486/66... :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Icy_Sand377 · 2023-04-15 16:07 OS/2 is PC, it's just a different OS. There were \*many\* SysOps who moved from MS-DOS/Desqview setups to OS/2 in the OS/2 2.x / Warp days. I was one of them. For a while the OS/2 tagline was 'A better DOS than DOS' and for people running a multi-node BBS under DOS, it was true. I'd be amazed if you hadn't (perhaps unknowingly) hit a BBS running OS/2, even if they weren't advertising it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- citrixscu · 2023-05-24 02:21 Did you ever find that one in 408? I was 408 also but don’t remember that name either on PD or others. There were some pretty solid boards in 408 back then, especially those affiliated with ACiD and the likes. Edit: see you found it in your archives. Nice!