Originally posted by Far McFar
Jeff got angry at me around 2000 and said "Stop scaring off the new users talking about &TOTSE all the time (the dialup). He wanted progress and new minds to join on.
"You think you're cool for saying older &totse". or some shit like that
here is DfG doing it all the time and even was the official "expert" on Motherboard/Vice
I believe you. He totally abandoned the BBS and seems to have fallen out with the NirvanaNET team of servers like Kurt Weiske from RealitychecksBBS who seems to be the only person from that era that had any real connection to the TOTSE BBS
https://archive.is/jfiou&TOTSE BBS Welcome Screens
While I was trying to cite a source for TOTSE's Wikipedia article, I managed to stumble upon an archive containing the welcome screens from the days when TOTSE was just another dial-up BBS. Since almost all of the members of the BBS have now left, I decided to display them here for the current former users to see.
It should be noted that in those days, due to the slow modem speeds, large screens of text didn't appear as quickly as they do today. On a once commonly used 2400 buad modem, you would often have to wait several seconds for an entire screen to be displayed. Since the screen was drawn so slowly, this allowed animations to be created by placing certain ANSI escape codes into the files.
In the archive, there was a total of twenty-seven welcome screens. Five of these were animated using more then just the blinking codes. To view these, just click on their static image. I didn't know &TOTSE existed when the BBS was up, so I have no idea if these were chosen at random or if they changed periodly.
This archive is different from any other archive ever since the 2000's because this guy claims to have the RAW .ansi files used for the totse welcome screens which is the ONLY shred of evidence besides text files that a "TOTSE BBS" dialup thing even existed at all.
There are ZERO archives, screenshots or anything AND IT'S ALL JEFF'S FAULT!!!! he could have kept it online this entire time like most old school dialup fidonet BBS's but instead he unplugged something that uses kb of traffic for a shitty vbulletin forum.
During the creation of this page, I managed to find a few other ancient &TOTSE files. Before discovering the welcome screens, I found &TOTSE's file listing. You can still locate most of the files listed within it by using a quick search. Also hosted here is Jeff's BBS Review. This was a list of many BBSes that Jeff Hunter and other users reviewed.
If you wish to view the welcome screen files yourself (for whatever reason), you'll need an ANSI file viewer. I recommend ACiDView if you're running Windows, however it doesn't display the blinking codes. You can download the welcome screens in ANSI format from here.
https://archive.is/o/jfiou/users.silenceisdefeat.net/~drahcir/totseans/TOTSEANS.ZIP^ this link is dead and it never worked on wayback machine either. Does anyone know the name "jfiou" or "~drahcir" ?
Also a problem with this .zip file is it's named TOTSEANS which seems more of a recent post 2001 era totse meme. Keyword "TOTSE TRIBE" totse tribe "totse tribe" "totse IRC logs" TOTSE IRC LOGS
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