Monday, January 18, 2010

I just dug out a tarball from the wayback machine. Here's a peek at Max's Tavern

freak@columbia:~$ telnet localhost 7100
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
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Give me a name: freak
Give me a password:
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New users: type ".help commands" for a list of commands.

Any questions or comments? Please email freak@dune.net

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Welcome Freak...

You were last logged in on Mon Jan 18 16:42:39 2010 from localhost.

Your level is: GOD

Room: bar

Welcome to Max's Tavern. This is the main Bar where everyone talks and
drinks. There is a stage off to one side where the house band "RPM10K"
plays every friday night. "Max's Brew", a small-batch microbrew, is
available from the friendly bartender. This place may not be someplace
special, but it's home. After all, we're just here to hang out and talk.


Exits are:  hallway

You are all alone here.

Access is fixed to PUBLIC and there are 0 messages on the board.
Current topic: It's my dick in a box!
.map
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  |                           ____                                       |  
  |                          | __ )  __ _ _ __                           |  
  |                          |  _ \ / _` | '__|                          |  
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  |      / \ / \ / \ / \        |    H    |                   |  Closet  |
  |     ( P | o | o | l )       |    a                        |          |  
  |      \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/             l    ____                +---- -----+
  |       _   _   _   _              l    |w |  Stock Room    |          |
  |      / \ / \ / \ / \     ____    w    |o |                |          |
  |     ( r | o | o | m )    |m |    a    |m |                  Manager's|  
  |      \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/     |e |    y    |e |                   Office  |  
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3/23/02 Max's Tavern 3.0 is born at maxstavern.dune.net 7100

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I just untarred it and ran the program. If I set up port forwarding I could probably even host the thing out to the net.
http://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults2.aspx?ci=16811

For now, it's just a bit of history for all of the talker nerds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talker

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