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Category Archives: BBS
And suddenly it’s September
So here we are again: September. Oh, make no mistake, it’s been a very busy year so far, furiously hammering words into a keyboard as part of multiple projects, tasks, experiments, and courses — with the main difference being that my thoughts and instructions are responded to by large language models and agentic bots. Yeah, I’m fascinated by this whole AI thing, so much so that my fingers are bleeding. My brain hurts. Continue reading
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On Facebook, BBSes and Big Data
Facebook is the unchallenged 800-pound gorilla in the social media arena. It is a people-data aggregator like no other. After discovering a cache of old BBS registration form printouts I decided to hunt down those ex-members, armed with names and answers they gave some 20 years ago. Continue reading
Revisiting the SA BBS Scene
Nor has anyone else been willing to commit their full and sordid BBS stories. It’s as if, for some people, the BBS period is a chapter they would rather forget about. Continue reading
The story of the HMVH Corporation BBS
The illustrated, unadulterated, and shamelessly long-winded personal memoir of a ten-year journey through the South African BBS scene. Continue reading
The SA BBS Scene
Here’s a memorial page dedicated to anecdotes, bulletins, documents, essays, images, lists, memories, nostalgia, photos, and related matter recollecting the South African bulletin board scene of the 80’s and 90’s. Continue reading
BBS ads and ANSi screens
Permit me to show off a small and personal selection of old BBS Adverts and ANSi Screens for your retro viewing pleasure. Continue reading
Roblist
If you lived in South Africa during the eighties or nineties and used your modem to dial into services beyond Beltel, then you surely would have heard of or used Roblist. If you were a SysOp, you wanted your BBS to be on Roblist. Continue reading