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2015-09-05 at 6:16 PM UTC in I thought i could trust you guys

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

um actually oplus got that from me… anyways.. you're a fucking faggot =)

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2015-09-05 at 6:15 PM UTC in I fuck so much my left hip is dislocated and constantly hurting

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Thats interesting because I actually am a high ranking female senator.

2015-09-05 at 6:05 PM UTC in WTF Was this guy's user name?

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

sigh…..that's the point, dumbass. I get to make fun of two people at once.

you are old and don't understand stuff.

How's that working out for you considering neither one of them is here? Do sit in a dark closet and make fun of people who aren't there when the power goes out from a storm?

2015-09-05 at 6:02 PM UTC in groups of people you want to kill

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Extremists regardless of their faith.

2015-09-05 at 5:59 PM UTC in WTF Was this guy's user name?

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I single handedly drove him to suicide

Now you sound like DS.

2015-09-05 at 5:55 PM UTC in Poll Winner of Darth Beaver Fan Club Contest.

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

It sounds like a duet from over here.

2015-09-05 at 5:45 PM UTC in How did religion begin?

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

The aliens appeared from the sky. People didn't know how to explain it, so they called them angels. Then the bad ones came down and shared technology we weren't ready for. And this is all the result of that. By the way, they can easily look just like us and can walk among us without detection.

2015-09-05 at 5:40 PM UTC in fuck space jam

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

tl/dr

2015-09-05 at 5:30 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

When fido opened with only 200 nodes it was born twice the size nirvananet would ever be.

NirvanaNET was the name of the message system that spanned multiple BBS systems. Somewhat of an underground network, it spanned almost 100 systems across the United States at its peak.

http://everything2.com/title/NirvanaNET Admit defeat and I will stop embarrassing you, on this topic.

2015-09-05 at 5:08 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Nobody really used FidoNET.

The rate of growth of FidoNet seems typical of electronic networks in the last decade. The approximate number of nodes at year ends is: Year Nodes 1984 100 1985 600 1986 1400 1987 2500 1988 4000 1989 6500 1990 9000 1991 11000 1992 16000 1993 20000 (Apr '93)

2015-09-05 at 5:01 PM UTC in Poll Winner of Darth Beaver Fan Club Contest.

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He just thinks he's being cute by using a done-to-death double-whammy which has already been done a million times before he dragged his sorry, lame ass in here. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Nice entry but the contest is over.

2015-09-05 at 4:44 PM UTC in Poll Winner of Darth Beaver Fan Club Contest.

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Ok boys and squirrels it's time for you to choose the winner of the title: President of the Darth Beaver Fan Club. Please be fair and create plenty of alts so SpectraL has a fighting chance. Also remember that you should only judge based on the Insults in the following thread; http://niggasin.space/forum/half-baked/19644-darth-beaver-fan-club-contest or not. So who's it gonna be, SpectraL or Crazy Mike?

2015-09-05 at 4:22 PM UTC in SpectraL Has His Own Urban Dictionary Entry

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

What year were you born in, Darkster? C'mon, now.

It's common knowledge that I am 53, do the math. O
BTW Why are you ignoring the facts kid?

http://niggasin.space/forum/half-baked/21532-the-spectarded-thread-pre-email-edition#post21966

2015-09-05 at 4:21 PM UTC in fuck space jam

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I don't care to know. If I wished to know, I could easily know, but I don't care. I've never cared who anyone is. It's what people post and say that matters; I couldn't care less what handle they use or who they are, although I can still use it for ammunition towards the cowards who need to hide behind them. Everything else is just kids games. You are not your username.

2015-09-05 at 3:56 PM UTC in SpectraL Has His Own Urban Dictionary Entry

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

You're younger than me.

You're younger than me.

2015-09-05 at 3:54 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

C'mon now. You do know that radio waves can be captured from practically anywhere on the planet, don't you?

Ignoring the facts again Specky my boy? Why have you chosen to start another debate, sparked by one of your half thought out claims of past brilliance designed to impress kids on the internutz, before you have admitted defeat in the dial BBS/Email noose you've so firmly affixed to your own scrawny, wrinkled, toothless neck?

Do the facts in post #11 of this thread scare you?

2015-09-05 at 3:48 PM UTC in fuck space jam

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I'm sitting here embarrassed for you Will. Everyone already knows that's not the real DS. But only a few of us know who's alt the account really is. Amusingly you are not counted amongst those few.

2015-09-05 at 3:41 PM UTC in People Who Don't know The Rules Of Driving...

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6 seconds is probably a good start, in my personal OPINION. It's easy to think not when you've never been confronted with a vehicle slamming their brakes in front of you, especially on the highway, but clearly some time is needed to react and most of the time nobody is expecting it to happen (understandably so, because it rarely happens). Personally when I'm driving behind someone on the interstate and I'm within 4-5 seconds separation time (which is as close as I'll get), I'm almost always maintaining my focus on getting ready to hit my brakes as fast as possible. I basically assume that everyone else on the road is a fucking idiot and something bad is going to happen at any time, and I've seen enough LL videos to justify it, though most of 'em are from Russia.

Yup, defensive driving is what it's all about.

2015-09-05 at 3:39 PM UTC in Mobile Site Limitations

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

You already have them. Click the large underlined A in the top right corner while posting.

This

2015-09-05 at 3:29 PM UTC in The Spectarded Thread: Pre-Email Edition

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I was there in the thick of it all, not just the Screaming Electron, but many other BBS and newsgroup communities. Nobody used e-mail. It was non-existent, in that sense. Oh, I'm sure there were a few who used something similar; it was a very diverse age, but nothing like what we're looking at today. You weren't there, so you would have no real clue what really happened or the way it really was. You're a fucking poser, dude, so just start shutting up before you embarrass yourself even further.

You are still just relating a personal experience. The data shows that your experience was not fact. Hell Fido was the largest dial BBS network ever and here are 12 excerpts from it's history in regard to email.

FidoNet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History

Randy Bush
[EMAIL="randy@psg.com"]randy@psg.com[/EMAIL]

Copyright 1992-3, Randy Bush. All rights reserved.
FidoNet is a trademark of Tom Jennings.

Abstract

FidoNet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN which uses
modems on the direct-dial telephone network. It was developed in 1984, and
has over 20,000 public nodes worldwide.

The public FidoNet consists of over 20,000 nodes which move email and enews
over the public telephone network using a unique protocol and data format.

The addressing scheme may be extended to accommodate points which are power
users who reduce their connect time by using private (i.e. unlisted) nodes
to exchange email and enews with public nodes.

As all modem phone numbers are published in the nodelist, point-to-point
transfers are always possible. But, as store-and-forward capabilities are
specified in the basic standards, email tends to be routed through a
world-wide hierarchic topology and enews via a world-wide ad hoc, but
generally geographically hierarchic, acyclic graph.

Topology

FidoNet's addressing hierarchy - zone, net, node, point - approximates the
route which email follows.

Power users run points which may connect to only their respective host nodes
to receive and deliver their email and enews. As they are not in the public
nodelist, points are not considered to be official nodes in the network, and
thus are not subject to constraints of technology, national mail hour, etc.

Within a local network (i.e. city), nodes usually exchange email directly
with each other. For example, 1:105/6 exchanges mail directly with all
other nodes in 1:105/*. In those cities where phone tariff zones divide the
city, local hubs are used to concentrate intra-city traffic to reduce costs.

Each of the six zones (continents) has a unique host which provides
inter-zone email routing. These "zonegates" have alias addresses of the form
orig-zone:orig-zone/dest-zone. For example, the gate from North America
(zone 1) to Oceania (zone 3) has an addressing alias of the form 1:1/3.
Hence, a node in North America may save the cost of an inter-continental
call to Australia by sending the message to 1:1/3, which will in turn send
it to 3:3/1, which will see that it is delivered within Australia.

The UFGATE package, which allows an MS-DOS-based FidoNet node to simulate a
uucp host, gates both email and enews. This package made gating fairly
popular by 1987. More recently, other DOS packages have provided similar
features. RFmail, a complete FidoNet implementation which runs on UNIX SysV
and Xenix, includes gateware to transform between FidoNet message format and
that of the uucp/Internet.

Around the world, BBSs with FidoNet capability provide the most publicly
accessible and lowest-cost email and enews service today. While most BBSs
are only usable by a single dial-up caller at a time, others run multi-line
systems ranging from two to 20 lines. Public access requirements vary from
formal user validation and possibly a small fee to completely open
facilities allowing full use by the first-time caller.

History

In 1984, Tom Jennings wished to move messages from his MS-DOS-based Fido BBS
to that of a friend, John Madil. As Jennings was the author of the Fido
BBS, he was able to quickly modify it to extract messages from a specially-
designated local message base and queue them for sending to the remote BBS.
As US telephone rates are much lower in the middle of the night, he wrote a
separate external program to run this email transfer for one designated hour
to exchange mail with the other node.

This soon grew to more nodes, reaching 200 by early in 1985. The nodelist,
a list of all known active nodes in the public FidoNet, was developed as a
distributed external file and was initially maintained by Jennings. The
reserved mail transfer hour became enshrined as "national mail hour," and is
preserved today despite current technology being capable of intermixing mail transfer and BBS access.

FTS-0001 describes the original message data formats, session protocols, and
link layer protocols for FidoNet as it was originally developed by Tom
Jennings. The ability for a node to obey this standard is mandatory if it
wishes to be listed within the public FidoNet, although the vast majority of
connections now use the far more efficient FTS-0006 suite. Data transfer
uses xmodem and a variant called TLink, 128 byte block ACK/NAK protocols,
neither of which is streaming, bidirectional, or windowing, and which
discriminate between email and file transfer at the session and data
transfer level. Mid-file restart recovery is also absent.

So you see Spectard while you were busy breathing through your mouth trying to comprehend the 4 page instruction set which were included in the crystal radio kit your mummy bought that one year for Xmas, some of us were sitting in front of systems emailing one another.

Source: http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt

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