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The LOD Communications Underground H/P BBS Message Base Project: Information and Order Form File Revision #3-T, 07/31/94
This file contains:
- Background information on the project
- Volume #1 Contents, Volume #2 Contents
- Future LOD Communications' projects
- Where to get more information on the project
The Project:
Throughout history, physical objects have been preserved for posterity for the benefit of the next generation of humans. Cyberspace, however, isn't very physical; data contained on floppy diskettes has a finite lifetime as does the technology to retrieve that data. The earliest underground hacker bulletin board systems operated at a time when TRS-80s, Commodore 64s, and Apple ][s were state-of-the-art. Today, it is difficult to find anyone who has one of these machines in operating condition, not to mention the brain cells left to recall how to operate them. :-(
LOD Communications has created a historical library of the "dark" portion of Cyberspace. The project's goal is to acquire as much information as possible from underground Hack/Phreak (H/P) bulletin boards that were in operation during a decade long period, dating from the beginnings (in 1980/81 with 8BBS and MOM: Modem Over Manhattan) to the legendary OSUNY, Plover-NET, Legion of Doom!, Metal Shop, etc. up through the Phoenix Project circa 1989/90. Currently, messages from over 75 different BBSes have been retrieved, although very few message bases are 100% complete. However, not having a complete "set" does not diminish their value.
Why is LODCOM Charging Money For The Message Bases?
As happens with most projects, the effort and monetary investment turned out to be substantially more than originally anticipated. With all of the high-tech equipment available today, people sometimes forget that in the early 1980s, 14.4K baud modems and 250 MB hard drives were just a fantasy for the home computer user. Most messages Lodcom has recovered were downloaded at 300 baud onto 143K disk drives, with each file usually no larger than 15K in size. One could not call a BBS and download the complete message base in 10 minutes and save it into one file. Literally hundreds of man-hours have been spent copying dusty Apple ][ disks, transferring them to IBM (or typing in hard copy versions when electronic versions were unavailable), organizing over one thousand individual files (thus far) according to what BBS the messages were originally posted on, and splicing the files together. Also, after consulting with the appropriate civil liberties organizations and our own legal counsel, a slight editing of the messages (restricted to long distance access codes, phone numbers, and computer passwords) had to be made to ensure that there is nothing illegal contained within the messages. Every effort was made to keep the messages in their pristine condition: 40 columns, ALL CAPS, spelling errors, offensive language, inaccuracies of various kinds, and ALL.
Although a fairly comprehensive collection of the goings-on during a decade of public and private computer underground activity has been accomplished, there are more messages out there. It is our wish to continue to document the History of the Computer Underground. In order to do this, and in order to break even on what resources have already been expended (it is a LOT more than most people realize), a dollar value has been attached to the entire compilation of message bases (ie, all Volumes combined). Without your understanding and support, this effort may not be able to sustain itself long enough to complete the project. A large portion of any profits will be recycled for two other projects in the works, whose aim is to provide additional historical background on the Computer Underground Community. That is, no one involved is quitting their day job :-)
Donations:
A portion of every order will be donated to the following causes:
- A donation will be made to help pay for Craig Neidorf's
(Knight Lightning - Metal Shop Private Co-Sysop) Legal Defense
bills (resulting from his successful campaign to protect First
Amendment rights for electronic publishing, i.e. the
PHRACK/E911 case).
- The SotMESC Scholarship Fund. The SotMESC Scholarship is awarded to students writing exceptional papers of 20 to 30 pages on a topic based on computer culture (i.e., hacking culture, virus writing culture, Internet culture, etc.) For more details, write: SotMESC, P.O. Box 573, Long Beach, MS 39560 or email: rejones@seabass.st.usm.edu
What Each "Message Base File" Contains:
- A two page general message explaining H/P BBS terminology and format.
- The BBS Pro-Phile: A historical background and description of the BBS
either written by the original system operator(s) or those who actually
called the BBS when it was in operation (it took months to track the
appropriate people down and get them to write these specifically for
this project; lesser known BBSes may not contain a Pro-Phile)
- Messages posted to the BBS (i.e. the Message Base)
- Downloaded Userlists if available
- Hacking tutorials a.k.a. "G-Philes" that were on-line if available
It is anticipated that most people who are interested in the message bases have never heard of a lot of the BBS names shown in the listing. If you have seen one set of messages, you have NOT seen them ALL. Each system had a unique personality, set of users, and each has something different to offer.
Volume #1 Contents:
LOD Communications (c) 1993: VOLUME #1 List of Hack/Phreak BBS Message Bases
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BBS NAME A/C SYSOP(S) # MSGS DATES KBYTES PROPHILE
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Alliance BBS 618 Phantom Phreaker 113 2/09/86 - 215 YES
Doom Prophet G,P 6/30/86
Black Ice Private 703 The Highwayman 880 12/1/88 - 560 YES
P,U 5/13/89
Broadway Show/ 718 Broadway Hacker 180 9/29/85 - 99 YES
Radio Station BBS 12/27/85
CIA BBS 201 CIA Director 30 5/02/84 - 30 NO
6/08/84
C.O.P.S. 305 Mr. Byte-Zap 227 11/5/83 - 196 YES
The Mechanic G,R,U 7/16/84
Face To Face 713 Montressor 572 11/26/90 - 400 YES
Doc Holiday * 12/26/90
Farmers Of Doom 303 Mark Tabas 41 2/20/85 - 124 YES
Karl Marx * G 3/01/85
Forgotten Realm 618 Crimson Death 166 3/08/88 - 163 NO
4/24/88
Legion Of Doom! 305 Lex Luthor 194 3/19/84 - 283 YES
Paul Muad'Dib * G,P,U 11/24/84
Metal Shop Private 314 Taran King 520 4/03/86 - 380 YES
Knight Lightning P,R,U 5/06/87
OSUNY 914 Tom Tone 375 7/9/82 - 368 YES
Milo Phonbil * G,U 4/9/83
Phoenix Project 512 The Mentor 1118 7/13/88 - 590 YES
Erik Bloodaxe * G,R 2/07/90
Plover-NET 516 Quasi Moto 346 1/14/84 - 311 YES
Lex Luthor * G 5/04/84
Safehouse 612 Apple Bandit 269 9/15/83 - 251 YES
G,U 5/17/84
Sherwood Forest I 212 Magnetic Surfer 92 5/01/84 - 85 YES
P,U 5/30/84
Sherwood Forest ][ 914 Creative Cracker 100 4/06/84 - 200 YES
Bioc Agent 003 * G 7/02/84
Split Infinity 408 Blue Adept 52 12/21/83 - 36 YES
1/21/84
Twilight Phone 313 Cable Pair 17 9/21/82 - 24 NO
aka System Lord 1/09/83
Twilight Zone/ 203 The Marauder 108 2/06/85 - 186 YES
Septic Tank Safe Cracker * G,U 7/24/86
WOPR 617 Terminal Man 307 5/15/84 - 266 YES
The Minute Man * G,U 1/12/85
_____________________________________________________________________________
27 Files, 20 Boards, 5700+ Messages, 4760+ K
Volume #2 Contents:
LOD Communications (c) 1993: VOLUME #2 List of Hack/Phreak BBS Message Bases
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BBS NAME A/C SYSOP(S) # MSGS DATES KBYTES PROPHILE
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"______________" 915 Gyrotechnic 201 7/09/89 - 209 YES
(BBS had no name!) Professor Falken * G,P 10/3/89
5th Amendment 713 The Micron 66 5/31/90 - 84 NO
Doc Holiday * G,P,U 8/06/90
Armoury, The 201 The Mace 84 4/01/84 - 58 YES
Odin * R 7/26/84
Atlantis, Lost City 215 The Lineman 97 7/05/86 - 186 YES
Sir William * G,P,U 5/31/87
Boca Harbour 305 Boca Bandit 160 10/9/83 - 160 YES
G 6/06/84
Cohalition, The 313 Bad Subscript 31 10/14/87 - 128 YES
[sic] Control C * G,P,U 11/17/87
Delta Connection 914 ???????????? 13 5/06/84 - 20 NO
5/16/84
Forbidden Fone 303 J. Sanderson ? 79 1/10/84 - 61 NO
2/27/84
FreeWorld 2 301 Major Havoc 89 9/01/87 - 95 NO
R 3/25/88
Hackers Heaven 217 Jedi Warrior 29 Late 83 - 25 YES
Early 84
H.A.P.P.I. SOURCE Karl Marx 29 8/30/83 - 41 YES
& P-Menu.SAV SOURCE Maxwell Wilke P 9/22/84
Harpo's BBS 201? Harpo 49 9/18/82 - 40 NO
11/20/82
Mines of Moria I 713 The Warlord 162 3/26/83 - 119 YES
& Mines of Moria ][ 408 Tamerlane G,R 2/7/84
OSUNY 2 aka 914 Frank Roberts 277 10/7/84 - 148 YES
Crystal Palace Tom Tone * 8/09/87
Phreak Klass 2600 215 Red Devil 155 7/30/86 - 197 YES
& PK2600 incarn.#2 806 The Egyptian Lover G,R,U 5/06/87
The Executioner *
Pirates Cove 516 BlackBeard 153 10/4/83 - 306 YES
G 1/30/84
RAMNET 417 Randy Smith 36 1/14/84 - 31 NO
Mark Tabas * G 5/04/84
ShadowLand 303 The Shadow Master 141 3/16/84 - 125 YES
G,R 6/26/84
Sherwood Forest /// 201 ??????????? 38 2/03/85 - 38 NO
3/01/85
Stalag 13 215 Carrier Culprit 10 5/31/86 - 92 YES
The Flying Avocado* G,P 6/04/86
Temple Tao-Rin 305 Long John Silicone 41 Late 83 - 47 YES
Dr. Nibblemaster * G Jan 1984
University, The 805 The Apple Bandit 277 8/17/89 - 231 NO
R 11/29/89
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22 Files, 25 Boards, 2180+ Messages, 2440+ K
KEY: In SYSOP(S) column, * indicates remote or co-sysop.
In #msgs column, P indicates that the BBS was Private, R indicates BBS
was public but restricted access sub-board(s) are included, G indicates
that SOME (or maybe all) of the G-files written by the sysop and/or
files that were available on the BBS are included, U indicates that a
BBS Userlist (typically undated) is included.
DATES column shows the starting and ending dates for which messages
were buffered (and therefore available) although there may be some
gaps in the chronological order.
KBYTES column shows size of complete file containing messages, g-files,
userlist, etc. PROPHILE column indicates if a "BBS Pro-Phile" was
written and is included.
LODCOM is currently organizing and splicing messages from over 30 more H/P BBSes [shown next] and, as the files are completed and/or as additional messages are procured for the above systems, updates of this listing will be released. Modem Over Manhattan (MOM), 8BBS (213), The Hearing Aid BBS, Catch-22 (617) sysop: Silver Spy, Blottoland (216) sysop: King Blotto, ShadowSpawn (219) sysop: Psychic Warlord, IROC (817) sysop: The Silver Sabre, Major Havoc, Planet Earth (714), Ripco (312) sysop: Dr. Ripco, Demon Roach Underground (806) sysop: Swamp Ratte, Stronghold East Elite (516) sysop: Slave Driver, Pure Nihilism, Newsweek Elite (617) sysop: Micro Man, Lunatic Labs (415) sysop: The Mad Alchemist, Laser Beam (314), Hackers Den (718) sysop: Red Knight, The Freezer (305) sysop: Mr. Cool, Digital Logic's Data Service (305) sysop: Digital Logic, Asgard (201), The KGB, PBS (702) sysop: Jack Daniels, Pirates of Puget Sound, The Central Office BBS, The Executive Inn, Hell Phrozen Over (HPO), MetroNet (301) sysop: Terminus, Off The Wall (303), The Outlet Private, Pandemonium, Phunny Pharm, Pirates Trove (703), Private Sector, Secret Service II, The Realm (Australia) sysop: The Force, and more.
Hacking/Phreaking Tutorials a.k.a. "G-Philes":
Along with the above H/P BBS Message Bases, LODCOM has collected many of the old "philes" that were written and disseminated over the years. A list of all of them would take up too much space here, however, we can tell you that the majority are NOT files that were originally written for electronic newsletters such as Phrack, PHUN, ATI, etc. (with the perhaps obvious exception of the LOD/H Technical Journal). Those files/newsletters are readily available from other sources. This hodgepodge includes files that somehow fell out of widespread circulation. A Table of Contents of the collection is included but the tutorials are all grouped together in four large files of approximately 250K each.
Where You Can Obtain More Information
- MindVox's Gopher System
Gopher to: mindvox.phantom.com (198.67.3.2)
From the first menu choose:
'1' - MindVox System Tour and Information Files
Then select:
'7' - LOD Communications Hack/Phreak BBS Message Base Archive Project
After selecting '7' the LOD Communications menu appears. You will then be given a selection of information all dealing with the message base project.
- Telnet into MindVox
Using your machines 'telnet' capabilities, telnet into:
mindvox.phantom.com (198.67.3.2)
Once connected to MindVox, login as 'guest'.
When you receive the MindVox prompt type:
'finger lodcom' (This will give you an actual sample of the project's messages)
- E-Mail / Voice Mail
LOD Communications can also be contacted via E-mail: 'lodcom@mindvox.phantom.com' or if you prefer, voice mail: 512-448-5098
LOD Communications / lodcom@mindvox.phantom.com / (512) 448-5098
Aleph One / aleph1@underground.org Copyright © 1996 Computer Underground Society. All rights reserved.