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BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense (teddit.adminforge.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Madison_rogue@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/

145,000 banned bot accounts...over 10,000 banned in January alone.

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[–] SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Shit, I used to run a WWIV 4.23 BBS back in the day. First modem was 9600 baud. Then 14.4k, 28.8k, and lastly 56k - screaming fast! Nothing like watching boobie pics loading one line at a time…

Edit: I remember signing up with Prodigy and participating in my very first AMA, with Quark and Dax from DS9. Good times.

[–] originalucifer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i just shut down a worlgroup server a few years ago... mostly up for majormud.

i with those asshats at the majorbbs restoration project would just release all the source code. they clutch those pearls like theyre valuable in some way

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember how excited I was to download the trailer for The Phantom Menace in 1999. Took almost an hour on a 56k modem. Or how it took under 10 minutes to download a 8 megabyte song off Napster on DSL.

[–] SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, man I remember in ‘99 having a stack of 100Mb Zip disks, using the college’s computer lab to do all my downloading on their T1 then walking my goods back to my dorm room. I’d load up a queue in the morning, then swing back by in the afternoon after classes. Such simpler times.

[–] KalChoedan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, the nostalgia is real. It was Gopher and Usenet via CIX and Compuserve for me from around '88, and eventually "proper" dial-up via Demon Internet (in the UK) in '92. 9600 baud, 14k4, 28k8, 56k and eventually dual ISDN. I still have a 28k8 modem in a drawer in my PC parts graveyard.

[–] SickIcarus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol I remember trying to get my parents to get an ISDN line installed back in ‘95 or ‘96 - the price was ridiculous. I was stuck on 56k until 2001 when I went to work for an ISP and was able to get a 1.5M SDSL line and was fucking ecstatic. Used it to run a CS1.6 server from my closet.

Edit: actually I did have a 1.5/128 ADSL line somewhere in there for a little bit.