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Where is jeff hunter?

  1. #1
    shuttle Yung Blood
    It seems that after TOTSE dissolved he dissapeared completely. No social media accounts, no personal websites, no AMAs, no accounts on any forums. I did find this one reddit post: reddit.com/r/totse/comments/9fwopi/my_vague_and_uninteresting_update_on_jeff_hunter/ that confirms (if the post isn't bullshit) that Jeff hunter wasn't a pseudonym for a group of people, he was at least alive in 2014, worked in IT, and lives a pretty normal life. It is pretty hard to find much info on the name though because of the actor Jefferey Hunter.

    Do we have any other info on him?
  2. #2
    There's a little Jeff Hunter in all of us now.
  3. #3
    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    idk but he's the one solely responsible for unplugging the BBS in 2001 and not archiving anything because he was convinced the .com 2000's revolution would make BBS's outdated forever and everyone would use big fancy servers with high speed internet and the social media of the future with youtube ads and bloated ajax because fuck staying loyal to your roots, right?

    Just move ahead and upgrade to the newest thing and never look back, thats the TOTSE way right?


    I'm being facetious of course. I believe this one action from him was the death kiss of TOTSE forever and it has been on a consistent decline ever since the BBS was unplugged


    meanwhile BBS technology is currently bigger than it's ever been in history and forums are on the decline. O Jeff, Where did ye go so wrong? THe ironic part is it would have cost him almost nothing to continue hosting the old totse BBS but he turned it off in favor of thousand dollar server racks and modern hosting.

    Maybe the "Screaming Electron" bit him in the ass and zapped him out of existence. He sold out MAAAN!

    https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/realitycheck-bbs/

    vBulletin 3 was basically reasonable software. I won't say it was good. It had issues: some jank in the auth system, hacky search, PHP… But it worked. You could run it on cheap shared hosting, you could scrape and automate it with a little elbow grease, it indexed well, it was usable and performant on a wide range of browsers. Administration was possible for an adventurous layman and administrators controlled their content rather than being beholden to a specific hosting platform. Most importantly it facilitated pseudonymous variable length discussion well and did little to get in the way of that.

    Technologically we provably had everything we needed to create a sufficient piece of forum software in the early 2000s. But vB3 reached end of life in 2007, its successor in vB4 suffered from bloat, abuse of AJAX where it wasn't necessary, and an almost absurdly bad/slow/overly abstract database design. PHPBB has gone down the same road. In general forum software has just become too complex when BBSs were basically solved over a decade ago.

    The strengths of vB3 are what ISS attempts to reproduce and preserve. What ISS offers on top of this a clean modern codebase, more reasonable database design, support for useragents that don't have JS execution, or with JS disabled, and generally better client-side performance through more sane/modern resource usage, caching, and delivery strategies.
  4. #4
    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

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    There were once three BBSes in the Bay Area with the same
    philosophy. Dr. Strangelove ran a board called Just Say Yes in San
    Francisco, Ratsnatcher ran Rat Head Systems in Berkeley, and I ran
    & the Temple of the Screaming Electron in Walnut Creek. We decided
    that since our message bases were very similar, our users tended to
    overlap, and we shared the same basic philosophy of how to run a
    BBS system, we decided to create NIRVANAnet(tm) so that our ideas
    could spread throughout the BBS community.

    Since that initial beginning, NIRVANAnet(tm) has grown to become
    one of the country's best and most infamous networks because of its
    open access policies and diverse subject matter.

    Interest in joining NIRVANAnet(tm) has been intense, but it was
    founded with the sole purpose of being a regional network. That is,
    it was designed to serve only the San Francisco Bay Area. This
    limitation on network size was done on purpose so that we could
    concentrate on the quality of the boards involved, address regional
    issues, and keep things small-scale and personal.

    Because of the enormous success of NIRVANAnet(tm), the sysops of
    the net have decided to open NIRVANAnet(tm) to the rest of the
    planet. The new, expanded NIRVANAnet(tm) will consist only of
    boards that offer OPEN ACCESS. This means that member boards must
    let anyone on and give them full access on the first call.

    If you're interested, read on...

    In a perfect world, Open Access means no registration, no
    validation, no complex new user questionnaires, no requirement for
    users to enter their real names, addresses, phone numbers,
    birthdays, gender, or other personal information, handles are
    allowed and encouraged, users are trusted, freedom of speech reigns
    supreme, knowledge is available to everyone, and no discrimination
    based on age, sex, race, religion, drug use, or mental stability.
    It also means that once a person is on-line they can immediately
    read and write messages, download files, play games, and use any
    other functions that the BBS provides.

    In short, OPEN.

    Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Many countries
    and states place restrictions upon free speech and free expression.
    Sysops who violate these restrictions can end up fined, imprisoned,
    or worse. Because of this governmental interference, sysops may be
    required by law to restrict information about sex to people over
    the age of 18 or 21, or in some areas, the information may not be
    provided at all. Some countries do not allow people to exchange
    information about explosives or weapons, in some jurisdictions you
    cannot discuss entry codes for getting into computer networks, and
    passing out credit card numbers is verboten just about everywhere.

    Since we don't want Sysops to end up in jail, it is permissable to
    restrict access to some areas or remove some types of information
    IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. However,
    restrictions should be at the absolute minimum levels needed to be
    acceptable to the local authorities. For instance, if it is legal
    in your area to give access to erotic material by having users sign
    a document that says "I am over 18", then by no means should you be
    requiring them to send in photocopies of their driver's licenses.

    Just because computers are good at collecting data on people,
    doesn't mean that you have to collect data. Just because you have
    the power to be Big Brother doesn't mean that you should. Give
    people as much freedom as possible on your system.

    I could go on and on for days about the advantages of running an
    open system as opposed to a closed one, but I won't. If you run an
    open system, you KNOW why it's a better way. If you run a closed
    system, you're not going to be allowed to join NIRVANAnet(tm) so
    there's no point in arguing with you about it.

    NIRVANAnet(tm) does not force anyone to run their system a
    particular way, we just say that if you agree with these
    principles, we'll share a bunch of really cool echos and files with
    you. You and your users will get to read messages from freaks of
    all types on subjects from encryption to phone systems to movies to
    techo-jargon to music to sex. NIRVANAnet(tm) is designed to REWARD
    sysops who run open systems by giving them the most interesting and
    diverse messages and files on the planet.

    Hope to see you on NIRVANAnet(tm)!


    \\\///
    |-@@-| Taipan Enigma
    | > | & the Temple of the Screaming Electron
    ( \/ ) Walnut Creek, California
    \__/ 510/935-5845
    || March 11, 1994
    X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X

    Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)

    & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
    Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
    Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
    realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
    Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102

    Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
    arcane knowledge, political extremism, diversive sexuality,
    insane speculation, and wild rumours. ALL-TEXT BBS SYSTEMS.

    Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
    where you live, or what your phone number is. We are not Big Brother.

    "Raw Data for Raw Nerves"

    X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X
  5. #5
    He let the mods get out of control through absenteeism. They turned into fascists and tyrants. Something had to be done. Jeff's spare administrator account was hacked, mods were removed and demoted and added, by force, the trash can was hard deleted so people couldn't live there. It was a civil revolution. When Jeff finally stumbled in, his kingdom was in anarchy. His rude discovery of being violated incensed his sense of pride and security, therefore the Ta-Ta-For-Now had to be issued.
  6. #6
    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
    Originally posted by shuttle It seems that after TOTSE dissolved he dissapeared completely.

    I know where he is.

    I'm sure Harper Reed knows where he is



  7. #7
    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
  8. #8
    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
    Hahaha Imgur is banning this photo from being posted.
  9. #9
    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
    From Harper Reeds website

  10. #10
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ He let the mods get out of control through absenteeism. They turned into fascists and tyrants. Something had to be done. Jeff's spare administrator account was hacked, mods were removed and demoted and added, by force, the trash can was hard deleted so people couldn't live there. It was a civil revolution. When Jeff finally stumbled in, his kingdom was in anarchy. His rude discovery of being violated incensed his sense of pride and security, therefore the Ta-Ta-For-Now had to be issued.

    Why are you still here?
  11. #11
    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ He let the mods get out of control through absenteeism. They turned into fascists and tyrants. Something had to be done.

    According to my research the problems began much, much earlier.

    in fact totse2k1 was the first person to point out the problems with early 2000's totse and the moderators there seemed to remember him from the "NNet days" this goes DEEP
  12. #12
    Originally posted by Dirtbag Why are you still here?

    Instructions nested deep within my programming.
  13. #13
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Instructions nested deep within my programming.

    Do you still consider yourself sane? I want to leave this place bcus of the idiots and migrate outdoors but it's hard with sensory issues and misanthropy.
  14. #14
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    Ig I'll come up with a list of stuff to do to force myself outdoors bcus one of the factors keeping me indoors is not knowing what I want to do outside.
  15. #15
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    Idk why I never thought of it before, that some contact lenses could maybe enhancement the amount of light that enters my eyes.
  16. #16
    Dirtbag African Astronaut
    Why the fuck did I not know about this before? I have a pair of blue circle lenses in my drawer but have been too scared to try to put them in.

  17. #17
    Originally posted by Dirtbag Do you still consider yourself sane?…

    I'm in peak mental state. Totally sane. And you can still post when you're outside.
  18. #18
    [quote pk=1940049 author="Lanny Lanny"



    Wait…is this photo of jeff hunter or Obama? I confuse
  19. #19
    Originally posted by Broseph Stalin [quote pk=1940049 author="Lanny Lanny"



    Wait…is this photo of jeff hunter or Obama? I confuse

    That's Conor McGregor's kid.
  20. #20
    Enigma African Astronaut [memorize my carmelite sway]
    I talked to him a couple times a year. He still reads our forums, he was on Zoklet but he doesn't post on this one. He last had an account on RDFRN and IntoSanctuary. He does post on Reddit in their programming/technology subtopics and doesn't use instant messengers.

    I've tried to get him to start posting here but he doesn't want to be involved like that with our community.
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