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-SpectraL is a phony: definitive proof. Link him to this thread whenever he spouts his shit.
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2018-03-08 at 11:38 PM UTCok, after reviewing the evidence i'm still upholding the OPs claim. speckles was not on totse from the beginning. i recommend the charges to be upheld. appeal denied.
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2018-03-08 at 11:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL So I said 2001 when it was mid-2000. That really doesn't change anything. It doesn't mean I've been "lying" about being on Totse since 1989.
I will agree but others might not.
still.. you seem pretty set about being so specific in the past.
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2018-03-08 at 11:48 PM UTC
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2018-03-08 at 11:58 PM UTCThis is becoming as dramatica as this pose
so Spectral is a poser?
hmm Spec/Spez
pretty close sounding.
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-03-09 at 12:15 AM UTCShe looks like she was murdered and then propped up Bernie style
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2018-03-09 at 12:28 AM UTCCan we please get back to SpectraL's conviction? It is now the sentencing phase of the trial. Does the condemned have any last words before the sentence is delivered?
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2018-03-09 at 12:32 AM UTCNone of you scare me one bit.
One dialed into Totse using a standard phone line and a modem. No long distance charges applied, no matter where in the world you were dialing in from. The software used was HyperTerminal, which was TelNet-based. Once connected to the BBS node, one was presented with a full screen of colorful ASCII text, which described the site and contents, and also provided information about the BBS itself and its mission statement. Navigation to the next screen was accomplished with a combination of the LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys, the TAB key, the ESC key, and the Enter key, also the F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5 keys. The second screen in contained a flashing prompt at the bottom the screen, which allowed you to either choose a handle of your choice, or remain as anonymous, the default. The following screen contained a listing of the .NFOs contained therein, a kind of index, which one could open as plaintext and peruse. Once a topic of interest was discovered, the user would then use the navigation keys to page over to the appropriate section, whereupon all the text files for that particular item of interest resided. One could then highlight the item requested and press Enter and load the file for viewing, closing out back to the file list with the ESC key. Totse was unique, in the way that it had no "ratio", which means you didn't have to upload to get enough credits to download; it was a free information command center for the entire planet. No search engines. No browsers. No Internet at all yet.
Now, how could I know all this if I wasn't actually there? Try and Google this kind of information, you won't find it anywhere. All my peers of those days long ago are either dead or in a nursing home. I am one of the few survivors of that era. Once upon a time, we peppered the horizon like the buffalo. Today, we are like the last-surviving remnants of a great nuclear holocaust, roaming the barren lands in search of sustenance. -
2018-03-09 at 12:39 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL None of you scare me one bit.
One dialed into Totse using a standard phone line and a modem. No long distance charges applied, no matter where in the world you were dialing in from. The software used was HyperTerminal, which was TelNet-based. Once connected to the BBS node, one was presented with a full screen of colorful ASCII text, which described the site and contents, and also provided information about the BBS itself and its mission statement. Navigation to the next screen was accomplished with a combination of the LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys, the TAB key, the ESC key, and the Enter key, also the F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5 keys. The second screen in contained a flashing prompt at the bottom the screen, which allowed you to either choose a handle of your choice, or remain as anonymous, the default. The following screen contained a listing of the .NFOs contained therein, a kind of index, which one could open as plaintext and peruse. Once a topic of interest was discovered, the user would then use the navigation keys to page over to the appropriate section, whereupon all the text files for that particular item of interest resided. One could then highlight the item requested and press Enter and load the file for viewing, closing out back to the file list with the ESC key. Totse was unique, in the way that it had no "ratio", which means you didn't have to upload to get enough credits to download; it was a free information command center for the entire planet. No search engines. No browsers. No Internet at all yet.
Now, how could I know all this if I wasn't actually there? Try and Google this kind of information, you won't find it anywhere. All my peers of those days long ago are either dead or in a nursing home. I am one of the few survivors of that era. Once upon a time, we peppered the horizon like the buffalo. Today, we are like the last-surviving remnants of a great nuclear holocaust, roaming the barren lands in search of sustenance.
A wall of BS that wasn't read.
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2018-03-09 at 12:59 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker A wall of BS that wasn't read.
https://www.bbscorner.com/usersinfo/bbsintro.htm
None of that touched on the points I discussed earlier. -
2018-03-09 at 1:09 AM UTC
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2018-03-09 at 1:33 AM UTC
Originally posted by Issue313 How the fuck did that work?
It didn't. If it was in the same area code, then sure. But one of the problems with dialing in like that is it cost a lot of money as far as I'm aware.
I have so much more to use against -SpectraL, but it's just contradictions between his posts and stuff I'm reading about the old BBS's online. So it's arguments against him, sure, but it's no hardcore proof like my archive links.
For example: -SpectraL said that he didn't "sign up" for Totse in 1989 because you couldn't "sign up" back then.
Originally posted by -SpectraL Nobody could sign up for Totse in 1989, because there was no signup system. You just picked a handle when you entered the BBS. Get it? Entered?
However, this article about the old BBS's...After signing up or logging in, the service might present a list of bulletins—messages from the sysop—or else go straight to a main menu. From there, the user enters single character selections like “R” to read messages, “E” to send email, “T” to see the file library (to download programs), or “G” to log off.
Once I created my account profile on “The Keep,” I encountered ample advice on how to avoid Y2K problems, browsed through a huge directory of games for the unpopular IBM OS/2 operating system, and read some messages left behind by users from 1997.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/
^ I don't care to debate this with him though, because I don't know much about the old BBS's. I could end up being wrong, and Spectral will use that as a "win". -
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