Setting up age verification for my BBS
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@domi I'm not, never have been, never will be.
But when were you 12? I'm gonna take a guess that it wasn't super recent.
I definitely new how to connect to a BBS when I was 12, but that's because I was 12 in 1996, when BBSes were still somewhat of a thing.
In 2026? Why would a kid waste their time knowing this?
In 2026? Why would a kid waste their time knowing this?
do not underestimate the ability of teenagers to obsess over retro computing
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@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 ,_,
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@domi I'm not, never have been, never will be.
But when were you 12? I'm gonna take a guess that it wasn't super recent.
I definitely new how to connect to a BBS when I was 12, but that's because I was 12 in 1996, when BBSes were still somewhat of a thing.
In 2026? Why would a kid waste their time knowing this?
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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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@foone (I was 12 when I got in trouble for connecting to a BBS from a school computer... in the early 90s. In fairness to "kids these days", they get up to some pretty impressive stuff. But I don't think they'd care much about BBS tech - at least not until they need to.)
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@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)
@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)
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@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)
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@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 ,_,
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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.
@foone I had a BBS back in the day.
I ran it on an old 286 PC. -
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.
@foone PERFECT
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@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)
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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.
@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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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.
@foone have you enable Zmodem or do I have to use Xmodem ?
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@foone You know... even when I had dialup internet access I never once tried to connect to a bbs. huh.
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feel like i missed out you know?
