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  • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

    Setting up age verification for my BBS

    It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

    rickf@indieweb.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
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    @foone PERFECT

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    • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

      @foone@digipres.club i'm '02, so 2014? i remember logging onto BBSes through HyperTerminal on win95 and a null modem cable connected to a linux box running some utility that proxied telnet to a serial port... it took me a couple more years before I figured out how to configure SLIP/PPP

      (i was a Weird kid for that timeframe, i'm fully aware)

      weirdtreething@donotsta.reW This user is from outside of this forum
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      @domi @foone wish i could say the same
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      • xerz@soc.masfloss.netX xerz@soc.masfloss.net

        @foone @domi

        In 2026? Why would a kid waste their time knowing this?

        do not underestimate the ability of teenagers to obsess over retro computing

        foone@digipres.clubF This user is from outside of this forum
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        @xerz @domi I mean, I used to be a teenager obsessed with retro computing, so I know.

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        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

          Setting up age verification for my BBS

          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

          yngmar@social.tchncs.deY This user is from outside of this forum
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          #34

          @foone Nah, you should throw in some safety questions. Maybe an Age-Captcha where someone has to choose the correct logo for TERMINAT.EXE, abort a Zmodem transfer or choose the right EMSI sequence from a choice of three.

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          • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

            @xerz @domi I mean, I used to be a teenager obsessed with retro computing, so I know.

            xerz@soc.masfloss.netX This user is from outside of this forum
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            #35

            @foone @domi there's still quite a bunch around tho, even today

            I think you should be legally recognized as an adult if you do that kind of thing tho /s

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            • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

              Setting up age verification for my BBS

              It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

              kabutor@infosec.exchangeK This user is from outside of this forum
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              #36

              @foone have you enable Zmodem or do I have to use Xmodem ?

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              • nine@chitter.xyzN nine@chitter.xyz

                @foone You know... even when I had dialup internet access I never once tried to connect to a bbs. huh.

                ...

                feel like i missed out you know?

                elfi@social.pixie.townE This user is from outside of this forum
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                #37

                @Nine @foone Yeah, alas. I didn't wanna run up the phone bill

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                • xan@xantronix.socialX xan@xantronix.social

                  @xerz @foone @domi I, a teenager in 2003, already owned a fucking NeXTcube lol

                  xyla@shitpost.tradeX This user is from outside of this forum
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                  #38

                  @xan @xerz @foone that’s so cool wha

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                  • weirdtreething@donotsta.reW weirdtreething@donotsta.re
                    @domi @foone wish i could say the same
                    domi@donotsta.reD This user is from outside of this forum
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                    #39

                    @weirdtreething well i know Shit about hacking on firmware and so many more things

                    different people, different timelines. that's okay

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                    • stormgren@obsidianmoon.comS stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

                      @foone Press ESC twice to continue...

                      Also, if your're old enough for the BBS thing, you probably also need to schedule a colonoscopy.

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                      #40

                      @Stormgren @foone Interestingly enough, I just read about mailboxes in Taiwan, still active today with more than a million users.... 😳

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                      • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                        @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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                        #41

                        @domi @foone I never used any BBSes because my parents wouldn't let me have a modem. They were always worried about me driving the phone bill through the roof and missing important phone calls. When I moved out, BBSes weren't really very interesting anymore because the Internet was exploding.

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                        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                          Setting up age verification for my BBS

                          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

                          flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.toF This user is from outside of this forum
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                          #42

                          @foone touché 😆

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                          • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                            Setting up age verification for my BBS

                            It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                            #43

                            @foone the people that remember what a BBS is are dying of old age.

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                            • doskel@masto.doskel.netD doskel@masto.doskel.net

                              @domi @foone (ftr this is knowledge that never goes away, i was born in '09 and actively ran a bbs, albeit one over packet radio rather than IP, and i have several friends younger than me who know of them)

                              nytpu@tilde.zoneN This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @doskel @domi @foone I found out my middle/high school network didn't block Telnet or SSH (because what underpaid grade school IT staff is gonna bother with that?) so I spent a lot of time in like 2016 playing Trade Wars 2002 and such in class lol

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                              • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                                @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network @foone@digipres.club it's okay

                                this is just why i don't tell people how old I am. i should just adopt some fake truth, it's not like you could tell that i wasn't born in 1992 given the amount of stupid trivia i amassed ,_,

                                ingalovinde@embracing.spaceI This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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                                • ingalovinde@embracing.spaceI ingalovinde@embracing.space

                                  @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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                                  #46

                                  @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                                  • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                    Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                    It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

                                    wtrmt@mastodon.socialW This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    @foone you can also ask them to go and register a CompuServe account using a special link.

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                                    • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                                      @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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                                      @domi @foone

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                                      • littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.networkL littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network

                                        @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                                        @littlefox @domi @foone me too!

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                                        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                          Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

                                          qsx@chaos.socialQ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @foone I connected to BBSes using native ISDN in my teens some time around 2012 or so

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