the tones used to switch
long-distance calls and using them to route user's own calls, by passing the no... TT, people started building their own blue boxes, using them and selling them some who are known of doing... ds taught him what they knew about
phreaking, and using that information john discovered a lot more new t... e ins and outs of several systems, and then began using lower register voice to get
passwords and other c
it, but
it took us a few weeks to figure out how. Using our skill at writing programs
that worked right t... s). Even I was
able to cobble together a bleeper, using a simple oscillator and a morse code
key.
Most o... nting involved scanning phone exchanges, by hand, using a
dial-pulse phone; auto-dial modems were not yet... ing with a fellow named Donald when Ron "cut in",
using our phone bridge gimmick. Donald was begging us t
r than
worry about running up a credit card by using too much online time.
Also it had a a pretty g... Genie account until
late 1993, but I had quit using it much since 1992, favoring Delphi
because of... ved out to the San Fernando
Valley and started using a system called "Quake" (quake.sylmar.ca.us).
...
limited Usenet and e-mail access) and started using that.
There was another San Fernando Valle
mmodore 64 thing, with the Elite Connection's C64 using
sysop "Night Runner" backing The Warlock with Ap... iendly and offered a "PHREAK
CODE" (I was mostly using an old Apple II+ computer, and did not have
a lo... e codes though - no one else had been
busted for using them, although I did receive a scare when someone... although there were many others who were already using
it) in the form of MidAmerica Communications, or
or five sysops tried to run a Windoze-based board using 3.1 but they were generally scorned.
I first st... ke a look at the operating system that Bungee! is using on his board; it'll bring back memories. Enjoy!
... also miss the ANSI art. I was never very good at using TheDraw, but I certainly appreciated the
amazing... now how good they'd got it. Try DLing a 700k file using a 2400 modem, then compare that to DSL or ISDN. T
of the more insidious computer crimes of the 80s; using someone
else's credit card to order merch... oppy disks were no longer
floppy, using a hard plastic instead of a softer one, floppy
... intent.
access was typically gained by using a "wardialer" (aka Wargames
Autodialer;... about such things, so even when he
was using the handle "Midnight Sorrow", the majority of the
ittle fuzzy creature falling down
the screen, and using the Sunburst word processing software (albeit pro... h
Apple IIGS's way back in 1987. While I enjoyed using the computers for these
kinds of things at school... s been lost.
At about the same time that I was using these systems, I entered the
mandatory computer a... computer operation in some capacity. Growing up using
computers, for work and for play, has shaped me i
up between that and
"Fondling Wombats" so I tried using them both equally for awhile but
people seemed to... ed to bother my fellow
sysops, most of which were using WWiV. I liked WWiV but it was only
configurable i... coordinator who then wrote me a long letter
about using profanity, having no respect for other users, yad... dong. Basically, he thought it was inappropriate using the word
"penis" in a private area that was only
lled
Super Ratt in 1982. This ran over the radio using RTTY-ASCII encoded
radio signals and a device cal... ept a simple
philosophy, run a BBS that anybody, using any equipment could use. This
included the deaf ... , decided to set up their computers to
crash mine using the modem sync problem. They just put on a cheap... f my users and still keep contact with them today using
iChat and e-mail. My co-sysops were all wonderfu
back then.
You would dial in to another computer using the modem, much like the way you connect to an
IS... on "way, way, primitive."
You connected to a BBS using a modem, much as home Internet users connect to t... ocal BBSs were small operations run out of homes, using a single phone line and
computer. Not much of a c... he evenings, when the owner of the phone line was using it to connect
to other BBSs; and some were unavai
at best, but it did
introduce me to the basics of using the computer.
I played witness to the situati... r much besides some spreadsheets. He was already using a 386/25
for work and probably considered it puny... the next year. My parents became both sick of me
using up their phoneline all the time, and sick of me s... mpanied of course by the rise in
amount of people using all these technologies, have combined to
essentia
really hard to use fancy ones. The typical
was using the dos upper 128 form-drawing characters. You ha... IDO net boards might have invented it anyway, but using RIP
rather than HTML.
The other thing: the int...
later assylumbbs.com) became an ISP. I'd been using my UACN account
for 6 months after graduating, ... resting was the propagation of interboard emails. Using
WWIVnet, I could (and did) send some emails acr
e as well.) At
some point in 1984, the ban on me using the computer was lifted
and I was allowed to use ... e sort of BBS type setup, or
maybe they were just using term programs, I'm really not sure. I was
thinki... int. I shudder to think I'm now a 20 year "modem using"
Veteran. It sure doesn't seem like two decades.
ip that I got for
buying the computer. I enjoyed using Prodigy, but some of my other geek
friends had me... rstand the concepts of uploading, downloading and using the
message systems. Being young, I made a coupl... to continue the
operation when hardly anyone was using it. I decided that if it went
one full month wit
'd seen the guy who I'd
bought the Golden ][ from using them... which is why I wanted the modem in
the fi... t machine of his own was a C64, and I'd seen from using his that it
was really a good little game machine... s too much of a shock... he
was scanning them and using them from his home line. They presented a
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