Harq al-Harba Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 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.txthttp://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.htmlhttp://bbslist.textfiles.com/770/other linkshttp://stason.org/TULARC/pc/acorn-faq/7-6-What-Acorn-BBS-s-are-there-The-following-is-a-list-of-B.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harq al-Harba Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 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.txthttp://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.htmlhttp://bbslist.textfiles.com/770/other linkshttp://stason.org/TU...-list-of-B.htmlThanks 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.em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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