Nicron #34 15 мая 1997

Самиздат

Story - Tragedy onlaynizma.

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                    TRAGEDY ONLAYNIZMA
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(R) MDF HACKER

Author .... Steve King
Translated by LA Goldobina (version 3).

            TRAGEDY ONLAYNIZMA

"Do you know that the phone bill for last month exceeded
$ 450? "- Sawing my wife naiprotivneyshim voice as
foolish child. - "It's more than two monthly fee for this
your computer "- she continued, moving on screech." confess!
I confess! "- I was sobbing. -" I'm just a slave modem. I tied 
with my modem! Maybe I should join the Anonymous Modemiki,

until I had sold his soul to the telephone company. "

As a lawyer Anonymous Modemikov every day I listen to
numerous options to tell stories. This insidious
disease, modem fever gathers tragically great tribute to
color computer users in our country. Modemmaniya
undermines the very foundations of our society and it seems 
that there is nothing that could stop her. This disease (and 
this is a social disease, commensurate with the epidemic) is 
becoming the scourge of what about onlaynizme soon create a 
soap opera called "All My Modemiki."


If you do not have any of these instruments of sin, called
modems, beware! Do not even think about buying it. Modem
fever begins very quietly, she sneaks to you and
then you have enough for a purse, checkbook or, God forbid, for
Credit Card. If you have a modem, you get to
insidious suction trap, dial a friend who
also have a modem. For some strange reason otstukivanie friend
another message on the keyboard fascinates you. Even if it is a
you get ten times slower than if you were talking
the same words just on the phone. Of course, you make a few
attempts to fight back, until in the end did not realize that
At least one of you must be running half-duplex. AND
This discovery pleasantly excites you - it sounds incredible, 
but it so. Then your somodemnik ("friend" - too good a term)

throws one more grain in the soil of your fall, giving you room
Local RBBS (Remote Bulletin Board Service). Once you
got hold of the phone number RBBS, you've taken the first step 
on the road, which can only lead to online addiction.


Once you make the next step, by dialing BBS, you
discover that get in touch is easy. Supernatural
communication with the beyond single computer in a strange way
exciting and far more than when you simply tap
message to his somodemniku. Scrolled initial ballots
telling you about this system, but you're too "on
Platoon "to comprehend most of them. Then you are
some of the messages in the appropriate section and, perhaps,
on an experimental basis, leaving one or two of their own. This
funny, but the excitement is already beginning to subside. 
Thinking that it may be wise to go back and re-read 
newsletters, you go to the main menu BBS.


And then it happens. BBS shows a bait that
inevitably draws you straight into the fire-breathing hell modem
dependence. Until you consider the main menu, trying to
figure out how to return to the original bulletins you on the 
eye comes across a line FILES. Requesting computer system about 
the file, you are trying to bait the hook blemish - FILE 
SUBMENU cut down hook. You begin to thrash about on a leash 
when reviewing list of files, takes to the air in the true 
excitement of the struggle, when the names and descriptions of 
all of these free programs float in front of you. They are 
FREE! All you need to do is order the computer to pump them for 
you. You have downloaded your first program and you're on the 
beach, shopping, cleaned and ready for frying. Barely 55 
minutes after you entered in connection with the BBS, you've 
downloaded six programs. One of them PC-Talk III, Andrew 
Fleygelmana (real weapon the devil). 

BBS-LIST.DOC, which also turned out to be among you received
file contains a list of a huge number of BBS in the country.
(The devil is all around us, constantly tempting us!). You
print out the list and find about 60 phone numbers
BBS. (Perhaps our souls!). From the list you will also learn 
clock work, communication parameters, and specialization of 
each system. You decide to try PC-Talk III and type with the 
help of BBS in about three states away. Because the line is

busy, you while away the time by making all of these phones in 
the BBS voluminous catalog numbers of PC-Talk.


Try the same number again - once again occupied. You think:
"Uh-uh, yes there is one who specializes in paskalnyh
programs. Maybe try it to dial. This is for
half the country away, but now more than five nights and phone
rates have changed. It will not be too expensive. "Paskalnaya
system responds. After 45 minutes you've already downloaded five
programs. Then you call another system - only this much
accurately across the country, in Florida. And so it goes all 
the night ... and the next night ... and the next ...


One day before you get it. You begin to realize the baseness 
modem dependence, especially when the wife turns to you as

child, humiliating you for these astronomical phone bills -
if by that time she has not divorced you. Each time
When you sit down at my computer to do some
work, you instead type the number next RBBS. If it
busy, you gain another, and still another, until you connect.
If you feel OK, almost "in high". When at the end
all bounces, you are still unable to work, you
only able to recruit another BBS.

Your fall as modemmana is another of those terrible
tragedies of our society, such as polygamy or coercion
through all the numbers on the "bingo card" computer magazine. 
In Eventually, your whole social life is closed to

messages that you find on bulletin boards
ads, your only happiness - is a program that
you have downloaded. You'll never run them, you are their only
collect.

However, there is hope. We, the dedicated but underpaid
Anonymous staff Modemikov, conducted extensive research in
seeking funds from modemmanii that ruined hundreds of lives. 
And our searches were unsuccessful. The tool is really very

simple but effective: make your own BBS. Then all
other modemmany will call you and harass their wives will
them about четырехсотпятидесятидолларовых phone bills, and
you can find peace - at last.