Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

This is enough to make a grown man cry

That's refreshing from the normal News cycle.

Thanks for sharing. BBS's and epic pinball are the reasons for my interest in computer as a kid. I would watch my friend go on BBS's and play text based game and download ASCII art all day to the point I learned a lot the got my first real computer (386 sx), I had a coco3 as a kid but that was just BASICS with no floppy or tape to load or save programs.

The 386 was such a new world of possibilities especially with software downloaded from BBS's, took ages but got lots of kool games and music files (.mod) etc... of course porn for a young teen was also nice lol.

This is so cool to see posted here! I'm the guy that broke my usual don't-post-on-reddit rule to share a keygen for Buccaneer. It really is a fun game, too, even if it can be a bit brutal (this is the third day in a row my ship got sunk!).

There continues to be a thriving community of BBS users and sysops, there is a mix of new software and mods along with the old (there are CBBS systems operating - that is the original BBS software created in the late 1970s!). The fsxNet echomail network is great, linking a lot of active BBSes together and with good conversation and lots of help for retro-tech issues and projects.

If you're interested in playing Buccaneer online, The Fool's Quarter BBS has the game online. Another interesting BBS to check out is 20 For Beers reachable via telnet at 20forbeers.com:1337.

I feel like I have to add some historical context.

We know a lot because of Roman documents and people take it for granted but the amount we know is miniscule and a lot of it is archaeology and guesswork.

The documents we have are a tiny fraction of everything written. The books we have are often referencing other books that are lost, documents are mostly lost unless by some stroke of luck end up in a sterile dry environment.

The rest was copied. Not just once, over and over, spread over large geographical areas. This is how we still have the Strategicon from the Byzantines for example.

It has taken a lot of work and many lifetimes to preserve history. Now in the age of technology the people keeping the digital past alive are called pirates.

Be proud. Future generations will thank you for pirating an absolute garbage BBC sitcom that makes reference to the working class views on Margaret Thatcher since it'll be one of the few things they'll have to piece together the past.

Let's do one better, let's get this kid's dad's game popular and create a page for it on Twitch! Send a message to the big publishers that there are enough people willing to resurrect an ancient game and that there are far bigger community building experiences to be had than a potential next live-service game from Ubisoft.

I'm gonna start looking into bulletin boards now and see what it takes to get involved with this community.

This post made my day. Thanks for sharing.