How did you find The Cellar??? - Page 3

Brigliadore · 04-23-2004, 12:35 AM

I found this site because of my Husband. He would talk about something he had read on the cellar, and a few times he said he had posted something about me. He sent me the link so I could read what he said, and after lurking for several months I saw a subject I just had to respond to so I joined.

I think Alan said at one point that he found the cellar because of the IOTD.

Edit: Stupid typos

staceyv · 04-23-2004, 12:39 AM

what the hell is a bbs? i'm confused, help.

Brigliadore · 04-23-2004, 12:41 AM

I am taking a wild stab in the dark, but I think it stands for Binary Beta System.

I don't really know what it stands for, I am just guessing.

Nothing But Net · 04-23-2004, 01:12 AM

I opened a door which I thought led to a bathroom, and fell down these fucking stairs!

SteveDallas · 04-23-2004, 08:33 AM

A BBS is a Bulletin Board System.

You younger folks are used to the Internet... more or less, every computer can talk to every other computer. Back in the olden days, however, most people with modems dialed up to specific computer systems, and those systems didn't talk to each other. For example, Compuserve was one of the earliest and biggest ones. You could chat, read message boards, and download files (the actual display of pictures was heavily limited by available technology). So you could dial up and use Compuserve, but that was it--Compuserve didn't interact with Delphi or Genie or any of the other online services.

A BBS was basically a smaller version of that. It was usually run by a single person (the "sysop") on a single computer. Many of them only had one telephone line, so only one person could dial in at once. Successful BBSs would usually end up with more lines, and some of them even made money. (Primarily, I'm guessing, the ones that let subscribers download naughty pictures.)

In the heyday of BBS culture (late 1980s, say, into the early 1990s), listings of BBSs in the Philadelphia metro area took several pages.

Undertoad · 04-23-2004, 08:42 AM

BBS = Bulletin Board System

In the olden days you'd use your modem to dial directly to the phone number of the remote computer. You'd connect to it and leave messages on it. Then other people would call the system with their modems, read your messages, and leave their own.

Most systems only had one phone line so when someone was on, you'd get a busy signal. The Cellar was revolutionary for its day because Scott and I developed it on Xenix - the first version of Unix for PCs - and so it had the native ability to support more than one modem, and thus, more than one user at a time. At its peak it had 7 phone lines dedicated to it.

Pi · 04-23-2004, 10:12 AM

Wasn't it a rather expensive way to have seven phone-lines? I mean were there no charges?

Undertoad · 04-23-2004, 10:37 AM

It was very expensive, but still only about 10% of the cost of my current setup.

glatt · 04-23-2004, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by Undertoad
It was very expensive, but still only about 10% of the cost of my current setup.

so now it's very very very very very very very very very very expensive?

I enjoy the Cellar. Thanks for hosting it. Seriously.

Undertoad · 04-23-2004, 11:15 AM

Yup it is that expensive but to be fair, I have managed to recoup it through my business doings.

(Which I should be doings now instead of chatting)

OnyxCougar · 04-23-2004, 05:06 PM

I was working graves and bored out of my skull (1 ten minute call every couple of hours) and started looking for Image of the Day site. This was among them. I stayed pretty much in that thread then eventually moved out on to the rest of the place, lurked for a year or so, then jumped in. I think Bruce was the first to welcome me in.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-23-2004, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by glatt
so now it's very very very very very very very very very very expensive?

I enjoy the Cellar. Thanks for hosting it. Seriously.

There is a PayPal Icon at the bottom of the main page.

onetrack · 04-23-2004, 10:37 PM

I stumbled on the Cellar, using the, ''more arse than class'' technique, when I typed the word ''image'' into Google .. looking for something completely different. Porn, probably ..

Without Google, I would have never discovered a whole new hidden underworld of freaks who inhabit the Internet BB's .. I hope I never meet any of you in the street ..

Actually.. I have met a fella, via a tractor BB, from NY state, who insisted on coming all the way to the most remote city in Australia to visit me in person .. he was a real nice guy, as was his lady, and we hit it off fabulously, for the whole 2 days he allowed here ..

I was amazed, he wasn't the classic, arrogant, brash, overburdened-with-money, know-it-all, American tourist we have been taught to recognise .. I was stunned to find, he was actually quite normal ..

xoxoxoBruce · 04-24-2004, 05:18 AM

Don't make the mistake of judging a whole group by one person.
Most of us are;

Quote:

the classic, arrogant, brash, overburdened-with-money, know-it-all, American tourist we have been taught to recognise

Nothing But Net · 04-24-2004, 07:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by onetrack
I have met a fella, via a tractor BB

What, if I may ask, is a tractor BB? Is that a tractor beam that attracts the opposite sex, like in Star Trek? A farm implement? A Daisy BB gun?

04-23-2004, 12:35 AM	#31
Brigliadore stays crispy in milk Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: A strange planet called Utah Posts: 270	I found this site because of my Husband. He would talk about something he had read on the cellar, and a few times he said he had posted something about me. He sent me the link so I could read what he said, and after lurking for several months I saw a subject I just had to respond to so I joined. I think Alan said at one point that he found the cellar because of the IOTD. Edit: Stupid typos __________________ I cant think of anything to put here so this is all I am going to write. Last edited by Brigliadore; 04-23-2004 at 12:43 AM.

04-23-2004, 12:41 AM	#33
Brigliadore stays crispy in milk Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: A strange planet called Utah Posts: 270	I am taking a wild stab in the dark, but I think it stands for Binary Beta System. I don't really know what it stands for, I am just guessing. __________________ I cant think of anything to put here so this is all I am going to write.

04-23-2004, 10:12 AM	#37
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	Wasn't it a rather expensive way to have seven phone-lines? I mean were there no charges? __________________ Complex simplex

04-23-2004, 10:37 PM	#43
onetrack Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Western Australia Posts: 99	I stumbled on the Cellar, using the, ''more arse than class'' technique, when I typed the word ''image'' into Google .. looking for something completely different. Porn, probably .. Without Google, I would have never discovered a whole new hidden underworld of freaks who inhabit the Internet BB's .. I hope I never meet any of you in the street .. Actually.. I have met a fella, via a tractor BB, from NY state, who insisted on coming all the way to the most remote city in Australia to visit me in person .. he was a real nice guy, as was his lady, and we hit it off fabulously, for the whole 2 days he allowed here .. I was amazed, he wasn't the classic, arrogant, brash, overburdened-with-money, know-it-all, American tourist we have been taught to recognise .. I was stunned to find, he was actually quite normal .. __________________ Illiterate??? - Not a problem! Write today for more information!! ....

04-23-2004, 12:39 AM	#32
staceyv Lecturer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 927	what the hell is a bbs? i'm confused, help.

04-23-2004, 01:12 AM	#34
Nothing But Net Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 1,481	I opened a door which I thought led to a bathroom, and fell down these fucking stairs!

04-23-2004, 08:33 AM	#35
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	A BBS is a Bulletin Board System. You younger folks are used to the Internet... more or less, every computer can talk to every other computer. Back in the olden days, however, most people with modems dialed up to specific computer systems, and those systems didn't talk to each other. For example, Compuserve was one of the earliest and biggest ones. You could chat, read message boards, and download files (the actual display of pictures was heavily limited by available technology). So you could dial up and use Compuserve, but that was it--Compuserve didn't interact with Delphi or Genie or any of the other online services. A BBS was basically a smaller version of that. It was usually run by a single person (the "sysop") on a single computer. Many of them only had one telephone line, so only one person could dial in at once. Successful BBSs would usually end up with more lines, and some of them even made money. (Primarily, I'm guessing, the ones that let subscribers download naughty pictures.) In the heyday of BBS culture (late 1980s, say, into the early 1990s), listings of BBSs in the Philadelphia metro area took several pages.

04-23-2004, 08:42 AM	#36
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	BBS = Bulletin Board System In the olden days you'd use your modem to dial directly to the phone number of the remote computer. You'd connect to it and leave messages on it. Then other people would call the system with their modems, read your messages, and leave their own. Most systems only had one phone line so when someone was on, you'd get a busy signal. The Cellar was revolutionary for its day because Scott and I developed it on Xenix - the first version of Unix for PCs - and so it had the native ability to support more than one modem, and thus, more than one user at a time. At its peak it had 7 phone lines dedicated to it.

04-23-2004, 10:37 AM	#38
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It was very expensive, but still only about 10% of the cost of my current setup.

04-23-2004, 11:15 AM	#40
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yup it is that expensive but to be fair, I have managed to recoup it through my business doings. (Which I should be doings now instead of chatting)

04-23-2004, 05:06 PM	#41
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	I was working graves and bored out of my skull (1 ten minute call every couple of hours) and started looking for Image of the Day site. This was among them. I stayed pretty much in that thread then eventually moved out on to the rest of the place, lurked for a year or so, then jumped in. I think Bruce was the first to welcome me in.

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