For the cartoonist illustrator Jack Rickard Unreferenced date July 2007 File 2000 08 bwcover.jpg thumb right Boardwatch Magazine s August 2000 issue Boardwatch , published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board System s of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine s run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when the BBS themed name was no longer relevant. It was jokingly suggested that the name be changed to Boredwatch to underscore the sharp drop in popularity of BBSes. The magazine included advertisements for BBSes, BBS software and hardware and editorials about the BBS subculture scene . Either alone or in conjunction with Computer Shopper magazine, in the late 1980s and early 90s before the Internet became a commercially available entity, Boardwatch would conduct an annual on line poll of the most popular BBSes in the United States and publish the results in the magazine. The founder and original editor of Boardwatch was Jack Rickard. Rickard was famed for his fiery editorials and love hate relationship with many of the ISP industry s major players including a controversial 1997 magazine cover about peering disputes which depicted John Sidgmore of UUNet attempting to blow up MAE East in a scene reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bombing . Boardwatch spawned an important ISP industry tradeshow, ISPcon and published a yearly directory of Internet Service Providers . The magazine was later purchased by Penton Media and spun off an online content site, ISPworld.com. The magazine ceased publication in 2002 and its assets were later purchased by online telecom publication Light Reading. Writers and staff Jack Rickard, Publisher David Hakala, Editor or, as the masthead put it Editor at Fault John C. Dvorak Jeffrey Carl Christopher Knight author Christopher M. Knight References Reflist 2 cite video people Jason Scott Sadofsky title BBS Th ... more details
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orphan date May 2009 Pagan s Night Out , or PNO, is a regularly scheduled social get together, usually monthly, held in hundreds of Paganism Pagan and Neopaganism Neopagan communities around the world. Begun in Houston, Texas in 1992 as a way for users of the Brewers Witch BBS to meet face to face, Pagan s Night Out has become a worldwide phenomena. ref a Google search for pagan night out turns up over 750 matches. Adding pno increases the matches threefold but with less relevance. ref Held in bars, pubs, coffee shops, cafes, restaurants and meeting halls, PNO is a social event for Wicca ns, Asatru ar, Thelema Thelemites , Druidism Druids , Temple of Set Setians and the hundreds of other Neopaganism Neopagan sects and sub divisions. Origins The Brewers Witch BBS The Brewers Witch Bulletin Board System was started in May 1992, running on a DOS PC using the Waffle bbs Waffle BBS software and a single phone line. ref name bbsdoc http bbsdocumentary.dreamhost.com photos 034donal index.html BBS The Documentary ref It was one of three Pagan oriented BBSs in Houston at that time and, thanks to its USENET newsgroups and email, quickly became a favorite haunt of the online Neopaganism Neopagans there. ref name boardwatch Boardwatch Magazine, October 1995 ref Later expanding to 5 phone lines and an ISDN feed running on a FreeBSD UNIX system, the BBS eventually spawned a webpage and, as the BBS era came to a close, moved totally onto the newly emerging Internet . ref http www.brewich.com The Brewers Witch BBS website ref In its time the website garnered numerous Net awards including Pagan Best of the Web , and the BBS was featured in Boardwatch Magazine . ref name boardwatch Although the dialup BBS ceased operations in 1998, and the website saw the end of its heyday by 2000, the website still exists in a mostly static form. At their Beltaine celebration in 2005, Donal, the BBS s SysAdmin, received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Magickal Arts for his w ... more details
For Jack Rickard who edited Boardwatch magazine, see Boardwatch File Jackrickardself.jpg right thumb 190px Jack Rickard self portrait Jack Rickard 1922 1983 , an illustrator for numerous advertising campaigns, was best known as a key contributor to Mad magazine Mad for more than two decades. After attending the Rochester Institute of Technology on an art scholarship, Rickard did commercial art for Chaite Studios in the 1950s. He contributed to Charlton Comics and worked as an assistant on the Li l Abner comic strip . Soon after, he became a mainstay in the advertising field, where his work attracted the attention of Mad s editors. He began illustrating for the humor magazine in 1961. In 1966 67, he collaborated with Mell Lazarus on a newspaper comic strip , Pauline McPeril aka The Adventures of Pauline McPeril for Publishers Hall Syndicate . Lazarus used the pseudonym Fulton on this strip, which followed the misadventures of blonde secret agent McPeril. ref http web.archive.org web 20091028051641 http www.geocities.com jeffr 2bya info a.htm 2 Be Young Again ref Mad Mad editor Nick Meglin commented, I think of all the artists we ve had, we miss Jack the most. Jack had so many styles, such a total command of all techniques. He was especially useful when we wanted something to have a real rounded, 3 D look to it. After the 1980 death of Norman Mingo, Rickard became Mad s main cover artist until his own death three years later. File Rickarmad1076.jpg right thumb 190px Jack Rickard cover for Mad magazine Mad 186 October 1976 He also illustrated for the original Mad paperbacks, including Frank Jacobs Mad About Sports 1972 . Some of his Mad work was reprinted in Richard Linklater s Dazed and Confused Teenage Nostalgia. Instant and Cool 70 s Memorabilia MCA, 1993 , a tie in with Linklater s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused . Posters Rickard s style was in demand for movie promotions. He did the poster art for two Sidney Poitier movies, Uptown Saturday Night and Let s Do It Again ... more details
Deleted image removed Image Swcbbs.jpg thumb 250px The Software Creations BBS computer racks Software Creations was a division of Linton Enterprises located in Clinton, Massachusetts , and run by Dan Linton. It was not connected with Software Creations UK , the British software development company specializing in Personal computer game computer games located in Manchester, England. Software Creations BBS Software Creations BBS was the bulletin board system BBS operated by the company, and known for being a popular distribution site for shareware game developers. It was the Home BBS for 3D Realms Apogee Software 3D Realms ref cite web title 3D Realms Company History 1991 url http www.3drealms.com history2.html accessdate 2007 11 07 ref , and was also used by Id Software , Capstone Software Capstone , Parallax Software Parallax , Activision and others. The BBS featured 134 node networking node s PCBoard BBS software U.S. Robotics modem s Novell NetWare , supporting NFS utilized by Software Creations own WEB BBS A website at http www.swcbbs.com now defunct The BBS received multiple awards Best BBS and Web Site , Dvorak Awards , 1995 ref cite web title 1995 Dvorak Awards url http www.citivu.com dvorak 95awds.html bbswebsite accessdate 2007 11 07 ref Most popular BBS , Boardwatch , 1993 The company and BBS were purchased by Total Entertainment Network in September of 1995 ref cite news title Total Entertainment Network acquires Software Creations work Business Wire date 1995 09 19 url http www.thefreelibrary.com Total Entertainment Network acquires Software Creations 3B Purchase of... a017436169 accessdate 2007 11 07 ref . The BBS has since been shut down. References references http forums.3drealms.com vb archive index.php t 2680.html US videogame company stub Category Bulletin board systems Category Defunct video game companies Category Video game companies of the United States ... more details
Primary sources date November 2009 Infobox software name Searchlight BBS logo screenshot caption collapsible author Frank LaRosa developer Searchlight Software 1987&ndash 1998 TeleGrafix Communications released 1985 Start date YYYY MM DD discontinued latest release version 5.1 latest release date February 6, 1999 ref http web.archive.org web 20011217063957 telegrafix.com products searchlight index.htm ref latest preview version latest preview date Start date and age YYYY MM DD frequently updated programming language TRS 80 BASIC Microsoft Level III BASIC Turbo Pascal operating system DOS platform IBM PC compatible TRS 80 size language English language English status Discontinued genre Bulletin board system license Shareware website Searchlight BBS is a bulletin board system BBS developed in 1985 by Frank LaRosa for the TRS 80 . ref name franklarosa.com http franklarosa.com trs80 default.jsp First Searchlight BBS ref . LaRosa formed a company, Searchlight Software, through which he marketed and sold Searchlight BBS. In 1987, LaRosa expanded the software and sold it as shareware written for the PC in Pascal programming language Pascal using Turbo Pascal . ref name franklarosa.com The features of Searchlight BBS included a full screen text editor, a remote DOS Shell computing shell , and file transfer via the XMODEM protocol. Searchlight BBS rapidly grew in popularity, and appeared frequently in Boardwatch magazine and at BBS conventions across the United States. Eventually, Searchlight BBS supported FidoNet , ZMODEM , Internet e mail and telnet connectivity. In 1995 LaRosa began work on Spinnaker Web Server, to compete with Netscape and other web server software. Searchight Software sold Searchlight BBS, along with Spinnaker Web Server, to TeleGrafix Communications in 1998. ref http web.archive.org web 20010408064508 telegrafix.com pressrel searchlight.htm ref References Reflist External links http slbbs.com The Searchlight BBS Support Page http darkrealms.servebbs.or ... more details
The CryptoRights Foundation, Inc. CRF is a 501 c 3 non profit organization based in San Francisco and established in 1998, notable for the development of HighFire and work on other encryption standards, such as Pretty Good Privacy PGP and IPsec . The organization supports the use of cryptography to protect the privacy and security of communications, ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the press the press , and to protect the privacy of individuals from surveillance and consumer profiling that could negatively affect the work of social justice, journalism and human rights organizations. ref name Rodger 2001 Will Rodger, Safe Haven , eWeek , July 2001. ref Significant technology projects include the development of HighFire from H uman r igh ts Fire wall , a secure, distributed communications platform for private NGO communications, and the related HighWire, a secure wireless human rights communications networking project based on the pioneering open source Software Defined Radio source code now maintained at http gnuradio.org GnuRadio . As of 2011, CRF is quiet but still active, continuing to provide free security training and support for human rights and journalism organizations on the use of cryptography ref name Rodger 2001 and doing early research and development on a new private identity and medical information security project known only by the cryptic codename P6 . The organization was conceived and founded on a ship during a total solar eclipse by five cryptography experts and cyberliberty activists led by Dave Del Torto an early PGP volunteer and employee at PGP, Inc and co founder of the OpenPGP Working Group at the IETF and John Gilmore activist John Gilmore , ref Thom Stark, They Might Be Giants , Boardwatch Magazine , n.12, v.14, p.122 Dec. 1, 2000. ref co founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation . CRF has included directors, staff, advisors, volunteers and engineers such as Eric Blossom , Jon Callas , David Chaum , Cindy Cohn , Whit Diffie , ... more details
pp move indef File Brendan Kehoe.jpg thumb Brendan Kehoe in Islesboro, Maine in the summer of 2010 Brendan Patrick Kehoe December 3, 1970 July 19, 2011 was an Irish born software developer and author. Born in Dublin , he was raised in China, Maine in the United States. In his early teens, he was first exposed to computing when he was given a Commodore 64 computer and he used this machine to teach himself about computing and computer networks. On leaving high school, he moved to Widener University where he continued his computer studies ref name Inquirer cite news last Hardy first Dan title Revealed A Network s Secrets Brendan Kehoe s Internet Discoveries Are About To Be Published url http articles.philly.com 1992 06 28 news 26030564 1 computer internet commodore accessdate 22 July 2011 newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer date 28 June 1992 ref , leaving in 1992. ref cite web title Brendan Kehoe Widener Student Authored One of the First Major Books on Using the Internet url http widenermagazine.com 2011 07 25 brendan kehoe widener student authored one of the first major books on using the interenet work Widener Magazine publisher Widener College accessdate 29 October 2011 ref Career He wrote two books and a number of technology articles in the specialist press e.g., Boardwatch Magazine on the topic of the Internet . His first book, Zen and the Art of the Internet A Beginner s Guide , first published by Prentice Hall in July 1992 ref name Inquirer was the first mass published user s guide to the Internet. Written while still at Widener, he struck a bargain with the publishers to ensure that the original edition of the book would remain free of charge in the internet for everyone to access. ref name Inquirer In a survey ref cite web url http www.pcmag.com article2 0,1895,57455,00.asp title 20th Anniversary of the PC Survey date August 2001 publisher PC Magazine ref taken by PC Magazine for the twentieth anniversary of the PC, Zen and the Art of the Internet was listed a ... more details
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