Telnet Express
Ever go somewhere that you used to go all the time but haven't been in forever but then when you get there you're kind of surprised at something that hasn't changed? Um, this is kind of like that. Surfing the internet, I just tracked down Quartz II, the non-.edu version of the Quartz BBS I used to visit back when I was still living in the dorms at Ole Miss, back in the days when the WWW was scoffed at for a ridiculously slow way to access a tiny amount of useless content, and telnet and usenet where the way the savvy used the internet. I remembered having come across it before a while back, and so clicked on the log-in link. When I tried my old nearly 10-year-old user ID and password, it told me I had the wrong password, so I tried it again with a more recent one. And, I'm in. Last log-in date: June 2001 (more recent than I would have thought). Most of the rooms had passed the 200-new-message limit since then, though not all. Just kind of cool.

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