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It is very important to give credit where it's due; in 1993-1994, the
remaining members of the Legion of Doom, now called LOD Communications,
decided to take on a vast project of bringing the past to the BBS users
of the present. They would do this by transcribing BBS messages from all
the most popular and active phreaking and hacking boards of the 1980s
and presenting them in their original 40 or 80 column format, all the
spelling and grammatical errors intact, and giving a profile of the
boards the messages came from. In many ways, textfiles.com had the same
idea, 6 years later. The project got underway, but never really achieved
the nationwide/mass acceptance it was supposed to, and these important
files were in danger of being lost a second time.
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I'm pleased to be a part of bringing many of these files back to you,
and give a bow to these pioneers of BBS nostalgia/history.
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<P>If you wish to have the entire directory conveniently archived and compressed into one file, please download
either <A HREF="http://archives.textfiles.com/messages.tar.gz"><B>messages.tar.gz</B></A> (1012085 bytes) or <A HREF="http://archives.textfiles.com/messages.zip"><B>messages.zip</B></A> (1050846 bytes) instead of all the files separately. <P>
