Basement Archaeology

BBS News: HIGHER SPEED

Posted on Saturday, 3. February 1996 by hmvh

Line noise and other shit aside, we’ve decided to invest in another v.34 28800bps modem, a brand of lesser status than USR. So far it’s working.

Let us know if there are any new problems.

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BBS News: SO YOU WANNA BE A SYSOP?

Posted on Friday, 12. January 1996 by hmvh

Ok, here’s your chance to have a go at running your very own Bulletin Board System… just move to the Doors Menu, where you’ll also discover a few other interesting doors and goodies. A new Voting Booth has also been installed, as well as a new Message to Next Caller/s utility.

And don’t forget to say hello to Co-SysOp Lisa :)

Have fun!

Posted in BBS | Tagged AI, fun, games | Comments Off

BBS News: YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT

Posted on Tuesday, 2. January 1996 by hmvh

First of all: Happy New Year. It had better be a good one…

Seems like the new Menu Design was preferred over the old one, so all our Menus have been redesigned from scratch, minor rearrangements were thus unavoidable.

And, while we’re at it, the Bordello, SuperSlots and BlueWave doors have been upgraded while others are slowly being added. See you in the Doors!

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BBS News: TIME FOR A NEW LOOK

Posted on Wednesday, 27. December 1995 by hmvh

There’s a new design of Menu Screen up for view in the Main Menu.
We’d appreciate some feedback on it.

Inbetween that, we’re going through about 500 new text files, mostly adult fiction and similar stuff, and adding a few doors and new utilities.

Also, in light of the fact that many of the existing subscriptions are about to expire, we’ve now reverted back to SUBSCRIPTION, although we’d much rather call it a DONATION that bribes the SysOp into giving you a higher security level of around 90 :)

See ya!

Posted in BBS | Tagged bribery, corruption | Comments Off

BBS News: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BBS!

Posted on Friday, 15. December 1995 by hmvh

Today, the 15th of December 1995 marks the first full birthday of the HMVH Corporation BBS. Thanks to all my users for their support and don’t neglect to read the message in the BBS COMMENTS AND QUERIES AREA.

A new option on the Top Menu should make downloading of those additional GIF/JPG files a tad easier.

Text File areas 38-44 have also been re-arranged a bit, and others added.

See ya!

Posted in BBS | Tagged anniversary, ego, survival | Comments Off

BBS News: WALL OF SOUND!

Posted on Sunday, 19. November 1995 by hmvh

Check out File Areas 28 and 29 in Group 1… WAVe files, for those of you into making Windoze sound unique (even my StartUp WAV is suddenly 600k).

And of course more GIF/JPGs are being added as well.

Enjoy…

Posted in BBS | Tagged audio files, old shit | Comments Off

H-MAIL17.TXT

Posted on Sunday, 15. October 1995 by hmvh

I haven’t a clue how this ever came to be, but this has to be the single best volume of jokes I’ve had the pleasure of compiling. Not to say that the previous ones are tripe… it’s just that this one has truly got me ROTFL!! You’ll see what I mean once you’ve read…

Title: H-MAIL17.TXT (formatted to 66 lines per page)
File size: 200,000 bytes
Date: 15-10-95

Posted in Humour | Tagged funny, jokes, wasted youth | Comments Off

BBS News: THE GOOD NEWS IS ALSO THE BAD NEWS

Posted on Sunday, 8. October 1995 by hmvh

The good news is that the system is basically “back on line”. The bad news is that it’s unfortunately limited to 14400, and it will remain thus until further notice.

The better news for joke junkies is that I’m currently churning out H-MAIL?? joke archives by the dozen. Available here soon!

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