T E X T F I L E S

BBS Messages

Textfiles, intended to be transferred from BBS to BBS and user to user, were

the longer-lasting legacy of the 1980's, but a much more fluid portion of

the boards was the true lifeblood of the culture: the messages. Every BBS

has a number of message bases where users could post about whatever they

thought to discuss; debates, rag wars, advertisements, and boasts all

played out the same dramas all over the country and the world. When you logged

onto a BBS, and started reading the bases you had access to, you could get a

sense, almost immediately, of what the "character" of the board was. Some

were dictatorships, some were insane asylums, some were office buildings.

In the files below, you will get a glimpse of these wonderous worlds that

affected mine and others' lives, and the steady stream of mind-to-mind

communication that shot out of a thousand nighttime modems.

ALANWESTON

The Alan Weston BBS Message Collection (1990-1996)

ALTERREALITY

Message Bases from the Alter Reality BBS (1989-1991)

BACKWATER

Message Bases from the Backwater BBS (Unsorted)

TBFILES

TBFILES/index.gmi

YABBS

Message Bases from Alex Wetmore's YABBS (1994)

The BBS Flamewar travels to USENET...</I>

hpnumber.txt

Collection of Hacking and Phreaking Codes on a BBS Message Base (November-December, 1991)

indy3.txt

Capture of a Gaming BBS Message Base, Circa 1990

info4

Hacker Messages from PC-Pursuit NetExchange BBS (February 1988)

int_pyro.txt

Messages from the Pyromania Section of a Citadel BBS (June 1990)

iroc.txt

LODCOM: Selected Messages from the Inner Realm of Communications BBS (IROC)

jerky.txt

A Large Collection of Jerky-Related BBS Messages and Files (1994)

journal.txt

The Works BBS Endless Story File

junk.txt

Message Base about Luding on the 1985 BBS

kindbud.txt

BBS Messages from Kind Bud's Hemp Discussion Corner

letter.txt

A Great Message by The Slipped Disk

lifesong.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Bright Side of Life) from Micah Holmes (March 8, 1994)

lodcom.hac

Lodcom Sample Messages Set #1, 4/20/93

lodstuph

LODCOM: Internal Release about the LODCOM Project, as well as LOD Messages

lotsames.msg

Complete Smattering of Messages, October

luding.txt

Posts on the Luding Message base from 1985 BBS, Feb.

lumberja.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Lumberjack Song), from Jim Maciorowski (February 14, 1994)

messag.msg

Wares, Cracking and Pirating Messages, November

messy.msg

"General" to "Elite Phreak", November

meta01.txt

Messages from a Pagan Fidonet Echo, February 1988

meta02.txt

Messages from a Pagan Fidonet Echo, February 1988 (Part II)

mjunkdrw.txt

Collection of Messages from the Junk Drawer BBS

modemtest.txt

Messages from The Modem Test BBS (Sysop: Charles "Chuck" Hood) (1993)

morgue.cap

A Capture of Textfiles and Messages from The Morgue BBS (March, 1985)

movie.txt

The Movie Review Alcove Message Base of the 1985 BBS

nurses.hum

Messages from Nurses in Bondage

nurses2.hum

More Messages from Nurses in Bondage

nurses3.hum

And Yet More Nurses In Bondage

old_msgs

Explosives for Fun and Pleasure, Uploaded by Shadow Knight (May 17, 1987) (Has Anarchy Messages Around It)

os2news.txt

Messages about the IBM PS/2 1991 Forum (April 18, 1991)

p80-1.txt

LODCOM: Selected Messages from the P-80 BBS (January-March 1984)

p80-2.txt

LODCOM: Selected Messages from the P-80 BBS (March 1984)

peyote.txt

BBS Messages about the Supreme Court and Peyote

philosip.txt

The Philosophy Message Base of 1985 BBS, circa 1984

phoenix1.msg

The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #1

phoenix2.msg

The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #2

phoenix3.msg

The Incredible LOD Phoenix Project #3

phreaks.txt

General Phreaking Message Base

pod_rule.txt

Posting of Mesages on Pagan/Occult BBS (Rules for the Conference)

qbbs_mess.txt

MESSAGES: Capture of messages from the QBBS Support Board (April 12, 1988)

randomne.hum

The Slipped Disk's Ramblings

robin.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Brave Sir Robin), from Jason Levine (February 19, 1994)

roundtab.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Knights of the Round Table) from Michah Holmes (February 23, 1994)

sitface.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Sit on my Face), from Jeff Stokes (March 6, 1994)

slippe.hum

More weird writings by the Slipped Disk

snurgle.txt

What the Hell is a Snurgle? (BBS Postings)

softrev1.txt

Software Reviews Message Base (July, 1991)

spamskit.txt

MESSAGE: The Spam Sketch (Monty Python) from Richard Cote (March 11, 1994)

sperm.txt

MESSAGE: Monty Python Lyrics (Every Sperm is Sacred) from Micah Holmes (March 10, 1994)

strek.txt

Inter-WWIV Posting about Star Trek

stuff3.txt

Goodbye Message from the Off the Wall BBS

sysopsue.hum

Message Base: Can Sysops Sue Their Users?

syssong.txt

MESSAGE: The Sysop Soung (Monty Python Parody) by Mark Williams (February 19, 1994)

tardis2.msg

Pretty bleak Dr. Who BBS Conference ..15 Minute Time limit...

telec.txt

Basic Telecommunications Message Base by The Videosmith

telnetfe.txt

Message Captured from the Telenet PC Pursuit Net Exchange BBS (February 1988)

trekkie.txt

Star Trek Message Board from The Safehouse, 1984

tt900507

MESSAGES: Messages from the Tender Trap BBS Circa May, 1990, by Dream Hunter Rem (1990)

udgbbs.txt

Large BBS Ad Message Base List (January 1991)

vi900906.vir

Messages about Viruses on a FidoNet board

vi901029.vir

Messages about Viruses on a FidoNet board

virdisc2.txt

Messages: Virus Discussion, 1991

vmb.txt

Mish-Mash Collection of Various Phreaking Textfiles, 1990

wopr.txt

LODCOM: Selected Messages from WOPR BBS (December 1984)

wotchlst.txt

MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages

wotmisc.txt

MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages (Prodigy)

wotproph.txt

MESSAGES: Selection of Science Fiction BBS Messages (Prophecy)

wowie!!.msg

Messages from October

zachman1.msg

MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)

zachman2.msg

MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)

zachman4.msg

MESSAGE BASE: William F. Zachmann Quits the Ziff Davis Publishing Company (Compuserve) (1992)

It is very important to give credit where it's due; in 1993-1994, the

remaining members of the Legion of Doom, now called LOD Communications,

decided to take on a vast project of bringing the past to the BBS users

of the present. They would do this by transcribing BBS messages from all

the most popular and active phreaking and hacking boards of the 1980s

and presenting them in their original 40 or 80 column format, all the

spelling and grammatical errors intact, and giving a profile of the

boards the messages came from. In many ways, textfiles.com had the same

idea, 6 years later. The project got underway, but never really achieved

the nationwide/mass acceptance it was supposed to, and these important

files were in danger of being lost a second time.

I'm pleased to be a part of bringing many of these files back to you,

and give a bow to these pioneers of BBS nostalgia/history.

T E X T F I L E S

BBS Messages

ALANWESTON

ALTERREALITY

BACKWATER

TBFILES

YABBS

103dbug2.txt

103dbug3.txt

103dbug4.txt

103dbugs.txt

acking.txt

anarchy.txt

anonym.txt

apples.txt

avatar.posts

bbs.txt

bice.txt

black1.txt

bombs.ana

bruce.txt

bruce2.txt

brutal.txt

buldagr1.txt

bullcreek86.txt

bust_bbs.txt

channl-1.txt

chatter.asc

chin.txt

circlems.txt

citadel-story.txt

citadel-top.log

citadel-top2.log

citadel-top3.log

color$.txt

compcond.txt

compconna.txt

compconnb.txt

compconnc.txt

conspir.asc

corruptc.txt

crash.txt

crazy

crckin.msg

crime.txt

cy-chat.txt

cyberadv.txt

death.txt

death2.txt

debate.txt

diversibuffer.txt

docwho.eko

docwho1.eko

ericbee.txt

feather.txt

frwrks.txt

fuckyouf.txt

galaxy.txt

grabbag.msg

hackers.msg

hackshak.txt

hate-mod.txt

hpnumber.txt

indy3.txt

info4

int_pyro.txt

iroc.txt

jerky.txt

journal.txt

junk.txt

kindbud.txt

letter.txt

lifesong.txt

lodcom.hac

lodstuph

lotsames.msg

luding.txt

lumberja.txt

messag.msg

messy.msg