Dead?docs
Posted by Skrud at Thursday, March 10th 2005 at 1:39am
The dead?.docs have a long history that dates way back when to the days of the BBS. Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions consisted of a group of raving lunatics, and by that I mean lovable geeks. The stories focus on a fictional Gainesville, Florida BBS. At least the Not-A-Cray BBS was fictional. At least I hope it was. And if it isn’t, would anyone want to lend me the Cray? …
Enough rambling. These stories are classics of geek literature. They have floated around the BBS circuit and have come to rest on the internet in various places. The current stable place of retrieval (and it has been for the last few years) is the Dead Documents mirror on iago.net. Since I have no idea how long it will be around, I figured I might as well host these docs myself. Also, it’ll save me a Google search everytime I want to look for it.
Well I’m no longer curious about the annotated versions … In fact, two people have e-mailed me with a ton of information (more than I had ever anticipated) on the subject. Some of it was pretty interesting, and all of it was unexpected. But thanks to some scrounging around on the Internet Archive I managed to find the old copies of the annoted versions. A huge thanks to Brian Kern for the detailed info and to Right Reverend Bang The Clueless for helping me track down the annotated versions as well as contact the real Morgan Bluejeans to find out what’s up… also for the extremely amusing e-mails. I’ll be putting the annoted versions up in a bit, once laziness subsides. (Of course, the email exchanges I’m talking about took place from January to February (2005)… so laziness may prevail a while longer)
These docs are a must read for anyone who has ever used a BBS. So enjoy.
Thanks for the kind words, really. Sometimes, I don’t think the guys and I really appreciate the fact that there are folks out there who still get a giggle from this stuff. Sometimes it seems like just yesterday, but it’s been 14 years and then some since Dedaparamaxx and I met at a strip mall in Gainesville for some unofficial BBSing get-together. It’s been 10 years since we last even tried to collaborate on any of this stuff, and all of us (shout outs to Riffer/Beopunk, Tempus/TinMan, Dedaparamaxx, Diskwiz, Wostgheel, Imaginos…. and, yee-flippin’-gods, many more) have gone on to adult things, but I hope I’m not alone in treasuring our days and nights of High Weirdness and occasional serious interludes.
-MBJ (so bored on lunch break I’m Googling myself and following the trail…)
Well, in case MBJ stops by again, I’ll send out a wave.
Tempus’ former tempermental chick
Where’ s the beer? YES! This is the real dude!Go to myspace.com/flesh chisel fuck the doomed!
Get yer ass to Mars! Moo.