Speaking of BBSes...
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..." It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out. A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all. - Ethan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-beto-orourke-special-rep/spe... On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan
Wow, blast from the past! Funny thing is, sitting on the boat eating lunch I looked up the cDc to see what names would be listed (handles of course) on any Wikipedia or other entries online and what names is remember/recognize. There were members (or supposed members....people liked to pretend they were more connected than they actually were sometimes) I had dealt with through my our group, especially when we were dealing with MoD and LoD. The funny part is in the Wikipedia list of cDc “affiliations” are not only groups I know and don’t know, but the group I was part of!!! Was two kids from Jersey (me being one of them) and one from Oregon and one from California when we started it when I was 12 years old (1980, just before my 13th birthday in November) Todd George could probably look at the list and know which group it was based on the name!! Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 15, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-beto-orourke-special-rep/spe...
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan
Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past (and present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is the official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or dial-up)! On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
Eugene, sometime a few months back (perhaps it was late last year) something changed with the list and even my own emails come back to be as a .mime attachment. It did not used to be that way, and I did not change anything on my end. Perhaps my .mac/iCloud service changed something, I do not know. There are a handful of people on the list whose emails come through as you describe. Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past (and present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is the official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or dial-up)!
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
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