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[–]spiraljockey 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nice post. I'd never heard of TOTSE or the regulars' exploits.

[–]Mountin-man46 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Man i fuckin loved totse, good times and good people. Yea we talked about bombs and overthrowing the government and shit but I never felt like there were truly bad people on there. Bad ideas, night ops, highlighters in people's asses, lol so many memories of that site. Also the guy with all the spiders was cool. It was a real shame when it shut down and nothing has really replaced it for me.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I'm gunna need to know more about the spiders...

[–]Mountin-man46 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It was called SHARP's spider megathread, this guy had a whole room in his house with all different kinds of tarantulas and he would catalog them and just generally knew a fuck ton about spiders. He knew all the latin names. He would post pictures of them all and pictures of his spider room with just the whole wall filled with terrariums.

[–]Mountin-man46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He actually convinced me to get a rose hair tarantula that I had for 3 or 4 years.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dope! I love spiders.

[–]Contrary_mma_hipster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

totse was the first internet forum I ever joined, as a teenager. Tons of fun on that site, and lots of trolls and extremists of all stripes. Sad to see it go

[–]Mountin-man46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also that Bill Keller stuff was hilarious.

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    [–]Maximum-Pootis -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

    Too busy not mowing your daddies lawn.

    [–]ihbarddx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Somehow, this comes to mind:

    http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/sci-fi/x-minus-one/a-logic-named-joe-1955-12-28

    It's a prescient vision of the internet from 1955

    [–]YeljanCore 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    I always loved the article on how to make a nook because it made me laugh so hard. Picturing someone waving a bucket around over their head, attempting to simulate a centrifuge to separate the U-238 from the U-235 just sounded ridiculous.

    ...good shit

    [–]Mountin-man46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Lol i never saw that one.

    [–]Sarcastic_kitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I loved &totse, I spent as much time on it as I do on Reddit. Living in the arse end of no where in England it gave me a cultural education. Pointing me to Vonnegut and Thompson and got me to jump on my bike to go to the library to see what PKD books they had (Man in the High Castle).

    It was a mystery as to why it shut down, especially after the servers were updated and the big hooha about them.

    There's so much to be said about totse, from the amazing text files to the mayhem of spurious generalities. I stopped visiting as much when there was that karma/points thing. I got frustrated that I couldn't seem to make an impact.

    [–]easy-e_t2 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    This is the true story -> http://www.totse2.com

    [–]r1l3yT3hCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    ...Jeff Hunter... Is that you?

    [–]Vitalogy0107 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Damn -- I always find out about cool shit way too late.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Damn, wish I knew of TOTSE before it shut down..

    [–]helladamnleet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    1) Jeff did NOT make huge server upgrades right before shutting down. That was quite a while before the shutdown. It NEEDED upgrades that he didn't feel like paying for or performing.

    2) Zok was offered Totse. He declined.

    3) Maybe he just got old after running Totse for 20 years and just wanted to be done. It has to be a major headache to constantly be dealing with the feds because the userbase doesn't know how to behave.

    BTW: https://newtotse.com & https://newtotse.com/oldtotse Enjoy

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    "Jeff Hunter"(not his real name, which was never revealed..) Dfg or whatever your name is (since you feel you were the first to come up with "totsean" as plural .. Jeff Hunter is in fact his real name. He had a PO Box in walnut creek california, he went to "2400 bps" meet-ups (often held at Cafe Italiano) his wife at the time was Dr Alice Hunter (since remarried) his best friend was JC Stanton, he ran a ethernet company up the street from the Walnut Creek BART station, and ran a computer repair shop on Main street in Walnut creek, Lived in Lafeyette california, born in San Jose California, Worked for companies like Seagate and CEO for Manpower Temp Agency and finally worked for EA games and Bridgewater Associates Hedgefund. he can be seen on youtube. He left Bridgewater around the time that John Comey left Bridgewater. and Wikipedia just changed out the page making sure that Contra Costa Times connection was removed from 1993, right at the time Contra Costa was closed down. Also Harper Reed who claims he and his friend blew up some hay stack, was hired to run Obama's 2012 campaign.; but that last part can't be 100 percent confirmed.. could be a joke. but if he really did, then it's really documented. So you lived in Pakistan? are you the guy who wrote one of the first computer virus and ran "Down the Well" or whatever that dialup board was called? people like Julian Assange I believe were apart of the late 80s and early 90s schemes. stuff like black boxes and blue boxes and brown boxes and all kinds of boxes. whistle into it. Cute story though. We had fun talking with this "Lawyer" today. such a kid.. he couldn't keep his nervousness controlled.. seemed to lack the ability

    [–]mysalsa23 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Is it dangerous to be on TOTSE? Will the FBI start keepin an eye on me?

    [–]platinum_peter 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    No more dangerous than being on here, or Facebook.

    [–]mysalsa23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Well it seems like if you went on that site the gov't would think you're trying to take an actual, serious approach.

    [–]wedgeservo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I was a regular from I think 2000-2004 and the first moderator of the S&A board to my knowledge... hilarious being that I was 15 and had never touched a woman 🤣and then on and off again after that, and hung around on the irc channels a lot. It sure was a different and more interesting internet in those days, and at the time the community was huge