[kwlug-disc] a present for the older guys here...

[Jason Eckert]

In case you want to compile the no-more-secrets program from the movie:
git clone https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
cd no-*
make sneakers nms
make install
sneakers
somecommand | nms

On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 06:50, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Up until this century I lived in Stratford, and it was a long distance
> call to Toronto, so no CRS for me.  But the place I worked at in the 90's
> had a direct line to TO, so I "worked late" every night and used the one
> system in the company that had a modem to dial out to CRS.  So every night
> I was on CRS for the allowed maximum of two hours, madly downloading all
> the things.  I'd copy my treasure to floppies and take them home each
> night.  Fun times.
>
> I remember once Jud had posted on the BBS that we should check out the
> movie "Sneakers".  I still enjoy that movie to this day.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:59 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Canada Remote Systems, yes, run by the late and very great Jud Newell.
>>
>> Such a lovely man he was, inspiring me to try my hand at doing a
>> CP/M-based BBS back then.
>>
>> Most memorable time I recall of CRS and Newell was him insisting on
>> buying me a double cheeseburger at a Harvey's as I stood lamely rifling
>> through my pockets for change to buy some fast food while at some swap meet
>> in Toronto. So kind, he was. He took of in 2016 to run a BBS on "the other
>> side".
>>
>> Ron S.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:26 PM <jekerr at sdf.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
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>>> When I was fresh out of Sheridan College with my Library Techniques
>>> Diploma I obtained my first library position partly due to my diploma,
>>> but
>>> mainly because I knew how to establish an online database, and back in
>>> the
>>> days of DOS and 1200 baud modems, few people had any idea as to how to do
>>> that. How? every BBS had a file download component that gave the ability
>>> to search the file collection by keyword or file name and in the case of
>>> text files, keyword search within a file. There you have it! An online
>>> database.
>>>
>>> My curiosity of BBSing won the day for me. PCboard was my software, and
>>> then when the Major BBS came out with the graphics ability I went with
>>> it.
>>> But when I purchased the software they had just released an Internet
>>> connectivity component. Since I was based at the University of Guelph
>>> attaching my BBS to the Internet was easy.
>>> Excehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBSpt that....
>>> It also came with a web server component. So I presented our information
>>> on a web server and within a few months there was no activity on the BBS,
>>> everything was accessed (and accessed by a much wider audience) on the
>>> web
>>> server. That was in 1994.
>>>
>>> Not too long after that, the commercial BBS software companies went
>>> bankrupt. This included companies that created the software and the BBS
>>> sites. Canada Remote Systems, one of the most popular BBS vendors made a
>>> gallant effort to stay relevant but they too bit the dust to the WWW.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Remote_Systems
>>>
>>> It was around 1994 that the world changed but by 1996 it was all over for
>>> the BBS .
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>> Cheers,
>>> John Kerr
>>>
>>>
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