{"id":31,"date":"2005-11-25T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-04-08T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:56:04","slug":"vintage-bbs-validation-message-of-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/31\/vintage-bbs-validation-message-of-the-week-3","title":{"rendered":"Vintage BBS Validation Message of the Week (#3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call The Cave, Punk!Ah, the entertainment never stops. For an explanation of what a validation message is, check out the first entry in this series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No, I didn’t make any of these up.<\/p>\n

\nSubject: Hey
\nName: Unicorn #205 @1
\nDate: Wed Feb 07 14:09:56 1996
\nRE: Validation Feedback<\/p>\n

Dear Red Wolf,
\n Hey, ummm…… I don’t know what to write. I am a little shy as you might see. Ummm….. I am 12 and in the 7th grade. I have long brown hair that turns reddish in the sun. I have bright green eyes and a normal face I guess. Ummmm………… My friend Glen told me about this thing and it nearly took me forever to get on. The line was always busy and I wasn’t about to try again, but FINALLY I got on!! Ummmm…… I am bored. That’s why I decided to try this. I did use DNA but it got deleted or something. So, I am glad this BBs came. K-bye.<\/p>\n

–Unicorn\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unicorn, I’m glad the BBS came too.<\/p>\n

Here’s another one for the road:<\/p>\n

\nSubject: MY NAME IS BILLY…I AM HERE TO TALK TO THE SYSOP…SOMEONE
\nName: Crash Override #278 @1
\nTue May 14 16:20:40 1996
\nRE: Validation Feedback<\/p>\n

MY NAME IS BILLY…I AM HERE TO TALK TO THE SYSOP…SOMEONE NAMED BEN RAMBLE SAID YOU MAY BE INTO KARDING….THAT BEING USING OTHERS CREDIT ARDS TO GET STUFF FOR YOURSELF…IF U ARE I NEED TO KNOW….I NEED A LAPTOP BAD AND I NEED IT BEFORE THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR…I WANNA HOOK IT UP TO THE FONE BOOTH AT SCHOOL AND GET THE SCHOOL INTROUBLE FOR HACKING INTOT EH FBI….IF U CAN GET THIS FOR ME PLEASE TELL E…I NEED IT TO COME LOADED….I NEED IT TO THAVE THE FASTEST MODEM YOU CAN FIND…I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY BUT IF I CAN GET THIS I WILL DO ALL THE HACKING YOU TELL ME TO DO AND I WILL DO ABSOLUTELY ANYRTHING FOR U
\n.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, I wasn’t into KARDING. An interesting note: the Ben Ramble mentioned in his message was a guy I went to school with at the time. He didn’t know I was actually Red Wolf, for reasons that this entry<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for another exciting episode next week — same Vintage Computing time, same Vintage Computing channel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, the entertainment never stops. For an explanation of what a validation message is, check out the first entry in this series. No, I didn’t make any of these up. Subject: Hey Name: Unicorn #205 @1 Date: Wed Feb 07 14:09:56 1996 RE: Validation Feedback Dear Red Wolf, Hey, ummm…… I don’t know what to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}