Joe Taibi made a comment about your note "BBS: The Documentary Photos":
“I do remember you're doing something very similar and it was for that very reason i contacted you first when looking for people to join us in the Fidonet thing! I was a user of your BBS for some time before jumping in and doing it as well. By some time meaning a few months since we all know how fanatical we all were back then once we got the bug. And damnit I know you were blogging in the early 80's cause that's what Howard's NOTEBOOK was! A blog! Your Blog! But no one had coined that stupid bastardization of phrases yet! lol”
If it is not in Wikipedia it is not true. Smile
I use Wikipedia all the time to look up information. I guess I need to get someone to enter the information into Wikipedia.
I wish I had saved old messages and data that would be great. I wish my memory was better. I wish the guy that made “BBS: The Documentary” would post my two and a half hour interview. He started posting some of the interviews with people on the Internet archive site but I guess he got tired of doing it. It has to be a major amount of work because he interviewed over 200 people.
If you watch his documentary you will see that many of the people he interviewed still had their old computers, BBS software and all sorts of things saved. I have nothing.
My mind is a blank right now but the guy in Belton that was running the FidoNet hub there at the last…He owned a computer shop..I heard he died. He was a nice guy but I did not hear about his death until later. I think he was part of the Fido net wars that seemed to go on later. You started up the Fidonet thing in KC but later toward the end, I think, there was some real fighting going on. I was not part of it. I just wanted the feeds and did not get into the fighting.
Jason Scott, creator of the documentary, asked me about FidoNet. He had some stories about it. It seems the fighting was taking place not just in KC but all over the United States.
There was a lot going on that I did not know about…I was sort of in my own little world and that was Howard’s Notebook.
Do you remember “The Sysop Next Door” series of stories that was posted on Howard’s Notebook and that many other BBS picked up and re-printed? You do know who the author was? After all these years it can be told.
I*think* I may have a few old hard drives from that era around here somewhere. Whether or not they can be revived and what they still contain I do not know but you've peaked my curiosity. I'll add it to my never ending list of things to do during those rare periods of time when I can function semi-normally! lol
Posted by: Joe Taibi | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 06:56