Opie looks like albino squibward. I was part of jeffs upper crust we used to cruise walnut crick in one of our various drop tops. I remember er one nigjt he hopped the curb and started crashing everyones trash bins and some troll cpme running waving his hamds like : " noooOoooooOopoOo, WHAT ARE YOU'RE DOEEEERING!?!?! YOUR RUINING THE TRASH.
Jepp just whipped the wheel amd went on going like nothing even happened with no emotion in his eyes. Later he showed me the phone lines at his house where all the dialing-in occurred
This was jepps faverite song he would literally listen to it alot , sometimes it was the only thing that could bring him back down to earth if only for a moment. That and American spirit cigarettes which he fancied not that I know what that word means
Totse used to be just TelNet and ASCII. You navigated the BBS with your ALT/CTRL/TAB/PgUP/PgDwn/ESC/NumPad/arrows keys. It was extremely colorful, kind of like as if it was always Christmas, with the multi-colored lights and the cool designs and moving graphics. It was more like an experience than a study, although the site contained a treasure trove of very valuable and interesting information.
You could also use a fancy "front end" client called HyperTerminal to access the Totse BBS. Most people just TelNet'ed straight in from a command prompt and MS-DOS. But with the HyperTerminal, you had a few more options and customizations and Easter eggs. One of the best things about the Totse BBS was it was "non-ratio", which meant you didn't need to give to get. The vast majority of other BBS sites of the day required you to have an upload/download ratio. So, if you uploaded a 60kb text file, you were able to download 180k in other people's content, a 1-3 ratio. Some BBS sites had a 3-1 ratio, so you had to upload three times the amount of content you were then authorized to download. If you didn't upload anything, you didn't get anything. A view was counted as a download. But Totse had a no-ratio format. 0-0. This made the site attractive to new users/downloaders, but it also created a situation where takers could clean you out of valuable and interesting content and not have to contribute anything in return.
Originally posted by -SpectraL
You could also use a fancy "front end" client called HyperTerminal to access the Totse BBS. Most people just TelNet'ed straight in from a command prompt and MS-DOS. But with the HyperTerminal, you had a few more options and customizations and Easter eggs. One of the best things about the Totse BBS was it was "non-ratio", which meant you didn't need to give to get. The vast majority of other BBS sites of the day required you to have an upload/download ratio. So, if you uploaded a 60kb text file, you were able to download 180k in other people's content, a 1-3 ratio. Some BBS sites had a 3-1 ratio, so you had to upload three times the amount of content you were then authorized to download. If you didn't upload anything, you didn't get anything. A view was counted as a download. But Totse had a no-ratio format. 0-0. This made the site attractive to new users/downloaders, but it also created a situation where takers could clean you out of valuable and interesting content and not have to contribute anything in return.
When the World Wide Web came around and Jeff was considering creating a website for Totse, half the userbase was like "why the fuck would we want to invite a world of kidiots in here and ruin everything??, and the other half was like "we need to move with the times", so the Totse Universe was divided. Ended up we got divided into hollow hemispheres.
