Category Archives: BBS

On Facebook, BBSes and Big Data

Posted on Monday, 27. June 2016 by hmvh

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 →

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Revisiting the SA BBS Scene

Posted on Sunday, 8. November 2015 by hmvh

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 →

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The story of the HMVH Corporation BBS

Posted on Monday, 18. July 2011 by hmvh

The illustrated, unadulterated, and shamelessly long-winded personal memoir of a ten-year journey through the South African BBS scene. Continue reading →

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The SA BBS Scene

Posted on Saturday, 16. July 2011 by hmvh

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 →

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Woman laughing alone with salad

Posted on Sunday, 3. July 2011 by hmvh

There’s no viewing images online such as on this very web page. If you wanted (to view) an image file, you would have to manually select (tag) it and then launch a protocol such as Z-Modem to download it. Afterwards, once you’ve downloaded the image, you’d have to log off the BBS, exit (or shell) your terminal program, and finally launch a viewer such as CompuShow in order to view your bounty. And sometimes the bounty sucked. Why on earth would you download such epic suckage? Continue reading →

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BBS ads and ANSi screens

Posted on Thursday, 26. May 2011 by hmvh

Permit me to show off a small and personal selection of old BBS Adverts and ANSi Screens for your retro viewing pleasure. Continue reading →

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Roblist

Posted on Saturday, 11. December 2010 by hmvh

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 →

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BBS News: SHUTDOWN

Posted on Thursday, 27. April 2000 by hmvh

The HMVH Corporation BBS is shut down as of right now!

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