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Finally...totse returns...

  • 17-01-2006 8:35pm
    #1
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭


    Update as of 2006-01-16: The motherboard on the main server for totse.com fried and died. For financial reasons I decided (probably foolishly) to try and fix the server. The server is about 5 years old and the parts I needed were available, just not easy to get. Anyhow I just received word that the parts should be here on Wednesday, which means I should be able to get the server rebuilt by Friday and take it to the co-lo on Saturday. With any luck, we'll be back on-line by Saturday afternoon.


    Yes! It's coming back on-line. This message was put up yesterday.


Comments

  • #2
    Demetrius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Demetrius


    What is totes?


  • #3
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    the child version of goatse


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,195 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Meh.. no idea from from according to the always useful Wikipedia:
    TOTSE (TOT' see, commonly mispronounced as TOTE' see), from the acronym for "'Temple of the Screaming Electron", is a popular (more than 2 million hits daily [1]) San Francisco Bay Area website and former BBS started by Jeff Hunter (a founding member of NIRVANAnet) in 1989 as a dial-up BBS originally named "& the Temple of the Screaming Electron". The original &TOTSE specialized in small text files (Hunter had an old 8088 PC XT clone with limited hard drive space; small text files were the only data he could store in reasonable quantity).

    TOTSE became available on the World Wide Web in 1997, and the dial-up BBS system was discontinued in spring 1998 after a particularly vicious flame war between two then-prominent users was allowed to rage out of control for weeks while the sysop was absent. Upon returning, Jeff Hunter/Taipan Enigma promptly closed the system to new users. Anyone attempting to sign on as a new user during that period would be greeted by a message from Taipan/Jeff which laid the blame for the system's troubles strictly at the feet of the users. Although the persons involved certainly share part of the blame, long-time users were quick to note that this would not have happened had the situation not be ignored for so long. The absenteeism of the sysop, normally a boon when the system was home to a thriving population of self-policing users, became the system's bane. Not long after this notice to new users was posted, &TOTSE's dial-up incarnation was shut down. It has been noted that the same problem that lead to the demise of &TOTSE's dial-up incarnation have contributed directly to the poor signal-to-noise ratio of it's present incarnation on the web.

    TOTSE is occasionally featured on mainstream news networks or publications, ordinarily for members committing crimes or for particularly controversial text files. A great deal of TOTSE is dedicated to theoretical methods of growing/creating illicit chemical substances, as well as methods for building explosives, bio-weaponry, and instructions on committing both computer and physical crimes but also contains many areas for the discussion of literature, politics and religion.

    TOTSE's community is a very tight-knit group. With 33,000+ users registered on the BBS, people from all backgrounds interact, share knowledge, or just chat.


  • #5
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    TOTSE (TOT' see, commonly mispronounced as TOTE' see), from the acronym for "'Temple of the Screaming Electron" is a popular (more than 2 million hits daily [1]) San Francisco Bay Area website and former BBS started by Jeff Hunter (a founding member of NIRVANAnet) in 1989 as a dial-up BBS originally named "& the Temple of the Screaming Electron". The original &TOTSE specialized in small text files (Hunter had an old 8088 PC XT clone with limited hard drive space; small text files were the only data he could store in reasonable quantity).

    TOTSE became available on the World Wide Web in 1997, and the dial-up BBS system was discontinued in spring 1998.

    TOTSE is occasionally featured on mainstream news networks or publications, ordinarily for members committing crimes or for particularly controversial text files. A great deal of TOTSE is dedicated to theoretical methods of growing/creating illicit chemical substances, as well as methods for building explosives, bio-weaponry, and instructions on committing both computer and physical crimes but also contains many areas for the discussion of literature, politics and religion.

    TOTSE's community is a very tight-knit group. With 33,000+ users registered on the BBS, people from all backgrounds interact, share knowledge, or just chat.


    During a recent overhaul, several forums were merged and there are now 32 individual forums on the Totse.com community bulletin board. Many moderators lost their privileges when their forums were removed. There are 5 administrators and 44 moderators at TOTSE. According to the site, there are 32584 registered users (as of 12.00 25th October 2005 GMT+1).



    it's one of the best websites in the world. It has a huge number of forums for sharing thoughts and ideas as well as a gigantic database of files of information of basically everything there is.


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