http://www.tradewars.com/default.html http://www.tradewars.com/default.html In the late 80s I used to have whiteboards all over my bedroom with various graphic

http://www.tradewars.com/default.html http://www.tradewars.com/default.html In the late 80s I used to have whiteboards all over my bedroom with various graphical trade routes in my local tradewars game. From memory the solar systems were all numbers so you'd go 3-6-99-8 or whatever. Around the same time a local set up a machine with UUCP email and usenet. The same people are on rec.pyrotechnics today as were on in 1989, probably because they're FBI honeypots not people. Around the early 90s I would download Phrack magazine from its internet site when it was released using an email to FTP server where pre-mime days you'd run uudecode on the email it sent back to get your short file. You'd email it batch style a list of FTP commands and it would email you back whatever you wanted to download. Then I'd upload the new Phrack zine to all my local BBSes to get a better upload/download ratio. I distinctly remember ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu. I'm not sure the concept of a zine or Phrack (or 2600) would make any sense to anyone under 40.