bbs3.txt · circa 1994 — DIGITAL INTERFACE · Virtual Underground CORE
Other misc captures from some old friends
The rescue story: bbs3.txt was thought lost to the void — the Wayback Machine never archived it — until it was recovered from the webmaster's own drive. Boards include DIGITAL INTERFACE and the Virtual Underground CORE. Handles and boards are preserved here; the era's contact details are not.
The capture, as preserved
Opening lines, with the era's email addresses, dialable numbers and network addresses redacted on this page. The full session runs unredacted in the live terminal, exactly as it was captured.
From : DIGITAL INTERFACE Number : 129 of 129
To : ALL Date : 05/04/94 6:56pm
Subject : Virtual Underground -CORE Reference : NONE
Read : [N/A] Private : NO
Conf : 009 - Posts, Bulletins, etc.
V i r t u a l U n d e r g r o u n d
CORE World HeadQuarters
212-765-170* - 100% H/P
Read mode : (ALL) (129 +)
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Terminate image saved 11-May-1994 01:14p
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Mon, 02 May 1994 20:40:55 alt.2600 Thread 142 of 836
Lines 36 Re: CrackerJack No responses
[email redacted] Mark C. Henderson at Wimsey Information Services
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Subject: Re: CrackerJack
In article <2q1f4c$[email redacted]>, Vince Zappa <[email redacted]> wrote:
>Anybody direct me to a site that has Cracker Jack on it?? Archie can't
>find..or if anyone has..kindly mail..Doing some bland research on
>optimization of the brute force method..anyway..thanks
anon ftp to
ftp.wimsey.bc.ca
/pub/crypto/software/dist/US_or_Canada_only_XXXXXXXX/
Password_cracking/jack/jacWhere the boards live now
The homebrew board behind this collection — tHe sHacK bBS of velvet.ath.cx, 1998–2006 — runs again in the browser at theshackbbs.online ↗, reconstructed from the 2006-10-26 filesystem dump.
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