![]() ![]() So, he started his own, determined to make it easily accessible to everyone. He didn’t understand what questionnaires asking about the name of his cat or his grandparents’ political affiliations had to do with wanting to access a BBS, and got tired of waiting in line for over-capacity systems to open up a new caller slot. Owners of adult-themed BBSes, like the Virginia Beach-based Pleasure Dome, made new callers pick up the phone and verify their ages verbally if they sounded too young, the administrator would make them come to his office in person to show ID.Īll of this rigamarole frustrated Rusty. Many sysops tried to throttle the demand on their servers by making new callers answer absurd questionnaires, or call them on the phone before giving them login credentials. Some were hesitant to charge callers for subscriptions, for fear of being seen as sellouts or greedy capitalists, or monetizing what was meant to be a fun hobby. ![]() Most systems operators were hobbyist tech nerds, like Rusty himself, running boards out of their living rooms and paying the cost of electricity, hardware, and internet service out of pocket. “I was so excited! It was a great moment!”īut in this new world of endless potential, he soon ran into limits. He dialed in to his local BBS that night. “Now at least I could have millions of programs, and all free!” the archived piece says. He downloaded PC-TALK, one of the earliest pieces of shareware, to access his local BBSes. In ironic foreshadowing for his own fate, according to this account, Rusty seemed most excited about the concept of “shareware,” software made to be swapped between users for free (or a small copying fee). I also went for the best color graphics-CGA in all it's glory… It was beautiful!” I paid the extra money for the hard drive because I was told it would store everything I would ever need on one disk. So I laid out over $4,000 for a Tandy 1200, a straight XT type machine with a huge 10 Megabytes hard drive. To tell the truth, I had no idea what to do with it. I bought it to help in my insurance business. Rusty allegedly wrote down the BBS’s origin story at some point before the FBI raid in January 1993, and this entry has been preserved on BBS history websites and archives: Russell, who went by Rusty, was an insurance man he didn’t really intend to get into the pornography business, according to archived accounts that are attributed to him. Other BBS systems operators, or sysops, turned this into their entire business, charging annual subscription fees and placing ads for their BBSes in sex shops and magazines. ![]() If you were running a BBS at the time, and allowing people to upload their own files, you were likely hosting at least some porn. Some of the biggest BBSes were devoted to swapping downloadable porn image files, including scanned-in photos from magazines, pictures copied from floppies, and homemade amateur smut. 4:45 PM at (.In the late 1980s and into the 90s, before the World Wide Web, posting to text-based BBSes was what most people did on the internet-or at least, those lucky enough to have a PC and a dial-up modem at home. 4:45 PM at (.BasePlayer player) in :0Īt () in :0Īt () in :0 4:45 PM Failed to call hook 'OnTick' on plugin 'RaidAlert' (NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object) The costs for now, but long-term it would be nice if it would pay for itself =)Ĭode: at () in :0Īt (wrapper managed-to-native) :InternalInvoke (object,object,System.Exception&)Īt (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, binder, System.Object parameters, culture) in :0 I've not managed to get enough in donations to pay for the hosting this month, so any contributions, even if just a few cents will help. ![]() On the protocol and set up a test server for him later today, and see what emerges. A developer contacted me yesterday and said he might be interested. I'm definitely still thinking about an iOS version. Let me know if you still have problems, as maybe there's a permutation of config options that's causing it, in which case it'd be handy to have copies of I'll have a think about a better way of adding moderators automatically, and get an update out later today. You can see the mod's auth list by doing /rs auths, or rs.auths from the console. Raid Alert adminsĪren't checked against perimeters, so they can fly through peoples' bases without triggering alerts. If you installed the mod while you were logged in and you haven't died, or gone to sleep and woken up, it won't have added you. The mod automatically adds server moderators when they wake up, to an internalĪuthorisation list. Click to expand.Hey Matt, I think the problem is that you're not set as a Raid Alert admin. ![]()
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