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I miss the 2003-2006 totse era so much
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2024-10-22 at 6:56 AM UTC
Originally posted by Dfg I fondly remember it but don't miss it, mainly due to crappy Internet and living with family (although I do miss that more). I rather in the now and make better memories. 2005 era was just a stepping stone. Although I do miss some of the nice members who mentored me and helped me.
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2024-10-22 at 11:27 PM UTCJeff 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 -
2024-10-22 at 11:48 PM UTC
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
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.
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.
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.
https://archive.is/o/jfiou/users.silenceisdefeat.net/~drahcir/totseans/TOTSEANS.ZIP
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.
^ 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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dbr:Humanities
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dbr:September_11_attacks
dbr:Sex
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dbr:Ontario,_Canada
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Jeff Hunter (en)
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2024-10-23 at 12:18 AM UTCThey got those original Totse welcome screens from me. There's a tiny ASCII player you can use to play them, too.
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2024-10-23 at 3:46 AM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I have them on a stored hard drive. Can't be arsed to connect it just for that.
shrodingger's drive.
as long as you keep it unconnected, the files will always presumed to be there.
once you connects it your forcing the universe to decide if it wants to corrupt all your precious little files or let you relieve your nostalgia in peace. -
2024-10-23 at 3:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina shrodingger's drive.
as long as you keep it unconnected, the files will always presumed to be there.
once you connects it your forcing the universe to decide if it wants to corrupt all your precious little files or let you relieve your nostalgia in peace.
Highly unlikely, as I have all my storage PAR'd. PAR can scan for bad blocks in the compressed data and rebuild the bad blocks from recovery block sets which are created at the time the data was archived. The chances of not having enough recovery blocks to rebuild the bad blocks are negligible. The recovery blocks needed to rebuild are only a small fraction of the entire archive set, and yet you can rebuild just about the entire data set from just those few blocks. -
2024-10-23 at 3:56 AM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Highly unlikely, as I have all my storage PAR'd. PAR can scan for bad blocks in the compressed data and rebuild the bad blocks from recovery block sets which are created at the time the data was archived. The chances of not having enough recovery blocks to rebuild the bad blocks are negligible. The recovery blocks needed to rebuild are only a small fraction of the entire archive set.
not when the read head is completely stuck to the disc as it spins up and got dragged across the disc and came off. -
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2024-10-23 at 7:05 AM UTC
Originally posted by Far McFar you dont run it, it wont block-check and keep it going. its going to cause degradation in the blocks. you will have permanent missing data and incomplete files.
The magnetic data stays on a hard drive for a really long time. Over 30 years. At 60 years, it only loses 50% of it's magnetism. -
2024-10-23 at 6:30 PM UTCJust download a copy of Hiren’s Boot CD with HDD Regenerator on it. You may have to download one if the older version as the new ine may not contain it. I haven't messed with it since around 2010 so I'm not sure what the current version contains.
I've used it to recover drives others I've worked with swore were unrecoverable. I even got chewed out by a boss for saving a salesmans laptop after he dropped it and probably "parked" the heads on a platter.
My boss had written off saying, "fuck him, don't waste anytime on it, let his boss pay for a new one and fuck his data". At the end of the day I booted from Hiren's, ran HDD Regenerator over night (it can take long time on big drives, days sometimes) and the next morning, when it finished, I rebooted and all damaged sectors has been remmaped as bad and all data was fully recovered. My boss was passed because I proved him wrong.
So if you ever have a problem with data on an HDD, even bad boot sectors or a corrupt MFT, for free it's worth the "effort". In my experience it's never failed as long as the drive would power and spin. -
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