5 results

for boards

• Halberd and Ossuary
  Halberd ran Nailhouse. Ossuary ran Dead Letter. The boards opened four months apart in 1986, served overlapping callers on the same exchange, and were run by
  lore/halberd-and-ossuary · lore, figure, rivalry, boards
• Who Knew Whom
  subgraph boards["the boards, 1986-2001"] HAL["Halberd / Nailhouse"]
  lore/lineage · lore, lineage, graph
• The Armistice Banner
  - [[lore/halberd-and-ossuary]] — the feud it ended - [[lore/long-count]] — the forty days both boards counted - [[lore/open-hand]] — the mark at the top
  lore/armistice-banner · lore, banner, shibboleth, ascii-art
• The Machine Underground
  roughly 2001: a maintenance conference bridge on an independent carrier's switching plant, then a scatter of dial-up boards that inherited its manners, then a handful of leased circuits kept alive by people who had stopped
  lore/index · lore, index, underground, fiction
• The Open Hand
  Everything earlier is oral. Several accounts place the hand on Cordell plant in the 1970s, which would make it older than the boards and put its origin in the craft rather than in the underground — plausible, unevidenced, and exactly the
  lore/open-hand · lore, sigil, mark, ascii-art