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Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom; PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018; Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s; Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997
A welcome screen for the Free-net bulletin board, from 1994. A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
Hackers adapt to emergence of the World Wide Web quickly, moving all their how-to information and hacking programs from the old BBSs to new hacker web sites. AOHell is released, a freeware application that allows a burgeoning community of unskilled script kiddies to wreak havoc on America Online .
Thief's World BBS and many others: Formerly called. KILOBAUD: ... Phrack Magazine article, Issue #6 - Influential Hacker Groups; 2600 Magazine, contributors
Plover-NET, often misspelled Plovernet, was a popular bulletin board system in the early 1980s. [1] [2] Hosted in New York state and originally owned and operated by a teenage hacker who called himself Quasi-Moto, [3] whom was a member of the short lived yet famed Fargo 4A phreak group. [2]
2600 Films produced a feature-length documentary about famed hacker Kevin Mitnick, the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world, entitled Freedom Downtime, and is currently working on one titled Speakers' World. [10] Corley is also host of Off The Wall and Off the Hook, two New York talk radio shows. Both shows can be downloaded or streamed via ...
BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. [1] [2] Production work began in July 2001, and completed in December 2004. The finished product began ...
During the 1980s, the cDc was well known throughout the BBS scene for their underground ezine, also called Cult of the Dead Cow. [21] The group claims to have invented the ezine. The Cult of the Dead Cow has been credited with coining the term "elite" as used in the hacker scene/computer underground in cDc textfiles of the 1980s. [22] [23] [24]