| While the rest of TEXTFILES.COM is about archiving and saving the textfiles of the 1980's, this section is about up-to-date essays and commentary about that time. We're looking for perspective here; you were young when these files made their debut, and now that the digital age is here, what do you look back and feel? |
The purpose of the history section is for people who lived through the "Golden Age" of BBSes to write about their experience. They can write about it from the point of view of someone looking back, or they can try to recreate the feelings they had when they went through it in childhood (or early adulthood).
A real nice bonus would be if people who wrote some of the textfiles on this site could cross-reference them and discuss what they were trying to achieve with the file, or give some context and perspective to the time the file was written.
| Filename | Size | Description of the
Textfile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
c0dez.txt| 63056 | Diary of a C0dez Kid, by Dark Sorceror (February 20, 2001)
| cybrtrsh.txt | 37385 | Cyberthrash (Story)
| dalive | 5273 | "Dead Alive" by the Extremist, about the way BBSes changed with the
Internet (March 12, 2000)
| golnar.txt | 15990 | BBS Life in the 1980's by Scott (Golnar/Mr. Pez) (March, 2000)
| iremember | 3093 | I remember Those Days, by raindog151 (March 28, 2000)
| kilroy | 2929 | My experiences, by King Kilroy (May 17, 2000)
| mindvox | 66115 | Mindvox: The Overture (Voices in My Head) by Patrick Karel Kroupa
(Lord Digital)
| minn.txt | 21622 | Adventures in BBSing: BBSing Nostalgia in the Twin Cities. from Sash
(2000)
| modemwld.txt | 11323 | The Modem World, by Charles P. Hobbs of the Blue Cafe (2000)
| mog-history | 25260 | A History of BBSes and BBSing from 1990 to the Present, by Mogel
(February, 2000)
| msorrow | 41151 | The Story of Midnight Sorrow, by Michael Waas (1991-Present)
| nameisreo.txt | 22043 | My Name is Reo: A Look at How the Electronic Me Was Born, by Tom Hare
(July 7th, 2000)
| netmask.txt | 4777 | What are these things that the old guys talk about... BBS's? by
Netmask (May, 1999)
| thievco.txt | 20677 | The Story and the Truth about the Thievco BBS (And Computer Security
in General) by the Blue Boar (August 28, 1998) | |
| There are 14 files for a total of 340,694 bytes. |
I hope to have this section grow to be one of the most complete and popular parts of this site. If you want to contribute, please don't hesitate to write to me.
If you wish to have the entire directory conveniently archived and compressed into one file, please download either history.tar.gz (137569 bytes) or history.zip (146896 bytes) instead of all the files separately.