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Dune BBS fandom between 1985 and 1995


Harq al-Harba

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Do you remember the screeching and pinging of a 1200 baud modem? If so, you might be able to help me.

I am working on an academic project at the moment, and as a small part of it, I am interested in locating information about BBSs, AOL groups, and Compuserve groups that would have been dedicated to Dune before the mid-nineties (i.e. before widespread use of the World Wide Web). My interest for these specifically is for getting a sense how readers may have discussed issues pertaining not only to the original series, but also issues emerging out of McNelly's encyclopedia. Specifically, does anyone know of or remember any such BBSs? And, does anyone know of any archives of these? I appreciate any info or even any slim leads. Thank you.

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I wasn't into dune or the internet at that time, but some googling may have found some info.

I searched 'Dune bbs 1994' and found

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/404/404.txt'>http://bbslist.textfiles.com/404/404.txt

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/404/

search for dune, and maybe contact that sysop. Doing a search for his name, looks like he was still online in 2005 at least.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/archive/t-390081.html

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/770/

other links

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/acorn-faq/7-6-What-Acorn-BBS-s-are-there-The-following-is-a-list-of-B.html

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I wasn't into dune or the internet at that time, but some googling may have found some info.

I searched 'Dune bbs 1994' and found

http://bbslist.textf...com/404/404.txt

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/404/

search for dune, and maybe contact that sysop. Doing a search for his name, looks like he was still online in 2005 at least.

http://forum.dvdtalk...e/t-390081.html

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/770/

other links

http://stason.org/TU...-list-of-B.html

Thanks Andrew - that is a HUGE help. I have been searching that list an area code at a time with keyboard commands, and am only at 230-something. Thanks for the lead.

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