Transcripts from dial-up services?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Ah, I miss reading the old Amiga Report stuff.  For anyone who's interested, there's an entire archive of them here:

http://www.amigareport.com/

And then there's this:

http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html

How's that for some nostalgia for ya?  

[jfoust]

So what's under the hood of the FidoNet web?  I planned to do it in PHP and MySQL.  

I used to talk with Tom Jennings about ASCII art, teletypes, and the old Dead Media Project.

[CdreCommodore]

So what's under the hood of the FidoNet web?

perl (HTML::Mason) and Postgres.  Search functionality is accomplished with swish-e.  (The same arrangement is being used to drive memphisamigagroup.net and puritytest.net as well.)  

The site is barely 500 lines of Mason, though.  The bulk of the work was by far on the front end, establishing the parent/child relationships among the messages and populating the database.  Only about 40% of the messages had the "REPLY:" pseudo-header that indicates the msgid of the parent message.  The rest had to be figured out by comparing texts, e.g. comparing the first-level quotes in one message to the non-quoted parts of all other messages to find that one that most closely matches.

The look was lovingly styled after^W^W^Wbrazenly ripped off from Google Groups, back when it was still usable for searching Usenet.

[Tenacious]

@ JimS

That was a nice read!  Someone also recently posted a blurry screen shot of Ncomm connected to a BBS.  Takes me back.

For a few years, I would swing by Compuquick in Gahanna, Ohio to buy some of their dwindling stock.  Sadly, the last time I drove by, the whole shop was gone.

[JimS]

@ JimS

That was a nice read!  
For a few years, I would swing by Compuquick in Gahanna, Ohio to buy some of their dwindling stock.  Sadly, the last time I drove by, the whole shop was gone.

Yeah, nostalgia can be fun ;-) I'll have to look into those files further, maybe collect them into a directory.  Later on in that same .KPT file was the announcement of Gateway buying Commodore.
Since I've moved down to Southfield, I sometimes drive past what used to be the only computer store in the state. It's a Thai take out now. The old Amiga store i used to work in is now a home... like it used to be... looks much nicer too.