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2017-03-03 at 12:41 AM UTCI discovered Totse just before Christmas in 1989. I had been browsing an anarchist-style magazine, and on the very last page, in glossy, was an ad that said, "Temple of the Screaming Electron - Knowledge is Power", and it had a phone number to dial in. So I dialed in that very night, and discovered hundreds of articles which ranged from ordinary everyday life, to building a nuclear warhead. I knew I was in the right place. Every night I would dial in to the site, share my own articles I had written, and download stuff which interested me. As the second millennium arrived, talk began to surface about going WWW. Many opposed this. We already had a network: NirvanaNET, so why would we want some commercialized imitator? We already had everything we needed, even though we didn't have browsers, search engines, or any of that fancy stuff which became so prevalent in "modern" times. We had our TelNET. We had our community. We had the beauty of the baud. What else should one really need? And the rest is history. The predicted wave of Tsnoobies arrived, kidiots became plentiful, garbage posts become the watchword, and a once-great nation was destroyed from within, like a cancer which eats away at the innards of its host. I can only say that I fought to the very end, as was customary for members of the &Totse Army. I may have went down, but I went down fighting. And now, twilight approaches. Obscurity. Ambiguity. Good times. But isn't that always the way? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? And yet the road goes on, even still.
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2017-03-03 at 1:34 AM UTCYou really can't let it go, can you?
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2017-03-03 at 1:49 AM UTCI don't get it.
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2017-03-03 at 2:49 AM UTCI started off as an 8-year kid who knew how to build crystal radios. In the late '60's, they used to come in kits, like you'd get for model cars or model airplanes. Actually, I started off on model airplanes, but moved on to crystal radios. The base kits came with everything you needed. I would build my radio and then sit and listen for hours to midnight transmissions crossing the great divide in real time. Make my adjustments, switch around on the various frequencies, write down my findings. In those days, only the rich had (black and white) televisions (carrying only one channel), so us poor kids had to find ways to keep themselves occupied; I was one of those.
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2017-03-03 at 2:52 AM UTC
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2017-03-03 at 2:57 AM UTCThey had The Lemmies. I thought it might be nice to have The Lannies.
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2017-03-03 at 5:51 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-03-03 at 10:40 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL I started off as an 8-year kid who knew how to build crystal radios. In the late '60's, they used to come in kits, like you'd get for model cars or model airplanes. Actually, I started off on model airplanes, but moved on to crystal radios. The base kits came with everything you needed. I would build my radio and then sit and listen for hours to midnight transmissions crossing the great divide in real time. Make my adjustments, switch around on the various frequencies, write down my findings. In those days, only the rich had (black and white) televisions (carrying only one channel), so us poor kids had to find ways to keep themselves occupied; I was one of those.
Hey, i give you a lot of shit. But that's pretty dope, building crystal radios and shit. I literally can't imagine a world without internet. For as long as i've been alive the internet has been a thing. Pretty crazy when you think about it. Kids born today will have their smartphones and tablets and super fast internet and 4k HD graphics in everything, they'll be like:"Lol i can' t imagine a world without smartphones and facebook, how did you people even communicate?". -
2017-03-03 at 11:38 AM UTCWhen I was kid I had pokemans and lego
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2017-03-03 at 3:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Hey, i give you a lot of shit. But that's pretty dope, building crystal radios and shit. I literally can't imagine a world without internet. For as long as i've been alive the internet has been a thing. Pretty crazy when you think about it. Kids born today will have their smartphones and tablets and super fast internet and 4k HD graphics in everything, they'll be like:"Lol i can' t imagine a world without smartphones and facebook, how did you people even communicate?".
i grew up on ps2 and motorola razr
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2017-03-04 at 12:22 AM UTCim smoking weeeeeeeeeedddd
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2017-03-04 at 2:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL I discovered Totse just before Christmas in 1989. I had been browsing an anarchist-style magazine, and on the very last page, in glossy, was an ad that said, "Temple of the Screaming Electron - Knowledge is Power", and it had a phone number to dial in. So I dialed in that very night, and discovered hundreds of articles which ranged from ordinary everyday life, to building a nuclear warhead. I knew I was in the right place. Every night I would dial in to the site, share my own articles I had written, and download stuff which interested me. As the second millennium arrived, talk began to surface about going WWW. Many opposed this. We already had a network: NirvanaNET, so why would we want some commercialized imitator? We already had everything we needed, even though we didn't have browsers, search engines, or any of that fancy stuff which became so prevalent in "modern" times. We had our TelNET. We had our community. We had the beauty of the baud. What else should one really need? And the rest is history. The predicted wave of Tsnoobies arrived, kidiots became plentiful, garbage posts become the watchword, and a once-great nation was destroyed from within, like a cancer which eats away at the innards of its host. I can only say that I fought to the very end, as was customary for members of the &Totse Army. I may have went down, but I went down fighting. And now, twilight approaches. Obscurity. Ambiguity. Good times. But isn't that always the way? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? And yet the road goes on, even still.
Yeah the Bay Area Bulletin Board something something.. Babber or some weird name.. right? &TOTSE 7 node. I have a pdf file of that magazine if it's the same one.. but this was not a glossy.. it was like an old dot matrix print blue tone magazine .. blue/shades/white
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2017-03-04 at 2:29 AM UTC
Originally posted by Totse 2001 Yeah the Bay Area Bulletin Board something something.. Babber or some weird name.. right? &TOTSE 7 node. I have a pdf file of that magazine if it's the same one.. but this was not a glossy.. it was like an old dot matrix print blue tone magazine .. blue/shades/white
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2017-03-04 at 2:44 AM UTCwhen i was a kid we had baccy and rizlas
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2017-03-04 at 2:49 AM UTCMy telephone was one long ring and two short rings. My neighbor was one long ring, a short ring, and then another long ring. The guy across the street was three short rings. When I was bored, I would quietly pick up the receiver and listen to the other calls when my phone rang a different ring than mine. Richard Nixon was President.
