Setting up age verification for my BBS

[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

[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 ,_,

[fogti@chaos.social]

@foone @domi I read a book about this when I was like ≈15, so I also knew about this.

[xan@xantronix.social]

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

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@foone

[peribotsarah@babka.social]

@kboyd @foone oh gosh, that was the year I got a 1200bps modem for my C=64... being 12 is magical.

[foone@digipres.club]

@domi well hell yeah then, here's to all us Weird Kids.

(I'm just a Weird Kid who hasn't been a kid for two decades)

[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)

[pseudonym@mastodon.online]

@domi @foone @littlefox

ATH+++

<Carrier disconnected>

[doskel@masto.doskel.net]

@domi @foone I think a good form of bbs age verification would be the way they grant authorization for gmrs repeaters, they give you a call and you chat for a few minutes until the owner with an extremely southern accent says "awright 'en you seem like a good fella, I'll 'end over the details soon"

[rickf@indieweb.social]

@foone PERFECT

[weirdtreething@donotsta.re]

@domi @foone wish i could say the same

[foone@digipres.club]

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

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@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.

[xerz@soc.masfloss.net]

@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

[kabutor@infosec.exchange]

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

[elfi@social.pixie.town]

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

[xyla@shitpost.trade]

@xan @xerz @foone that’s so cool wha

[domi@donotsta.re]

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

different people, different timelines. that's okay

[jesterchen@social.tchncs.de]

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