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By WAYNE YANG
Copy desk chief
Connection confirmed . . . identity not
established. Password? (CR if new user), says the
computer's screen. A blinking cursor waits at the
end of thp linp
The person at the terminal types H-E-R-O-I-C-S
and waits.
Welcome, Bionic Baby, calling from Columbia,
S.C. You've called the WordWorks 112 times
before.
Searching message base. You have the following
waiting: The computer goes through a list of
posted messages for Bionic Baby. Read now?
Bionic Baby decides that, yes, he wants to read
his mail now.
MSG 49695 ARTS AND SCIENCES
01/14/88 21:19:51 (READ 2 TIMES)
FROM: JAMES ROSE
TO: BIONIC BABY
SUBJECT: MOVIES
Bio, did you see that crummy movie on HBO last
night? What's with all the gore, the bloody limbs
and teeth?
Bionic Baby is on the WordWorks electronic
bulletin board service ? "BBS" to the faithful.
A BBS is a glorified, computerized bulletin
board. Computer users hook translator boxes,
"modems," to their computers and link their computers
by phone. These modems can tirelessly
translate computer language to electrical phone impulses,
then back to computer language ? two
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up directly with a BBS. The system has software 8
programming which allows it to save "public |
messages," and the messages are then posted on S
"boards." These boards are open to the public for
viewing and consumption, hence the name bulletin
board service. Like most BBSs, the WordWorks
also offers "electronic mail." These messages are
protected from viewing by people other than those
to whom the "letter" is addressed.
Like any technological toy, the WordWorks has
its share of the fanatical, users who call the system
everyday, sometimes leaving as many as 20 or 30
messages to 20 different people. "Hackers," they 11
are called, though they are not anything like the
precocious teen hackers who break into defense
and bank computers.
No, they are BBS hackers, and BBS hackers are
known more for their pursuit of truth along the
telecommunications phone lines than for flagrant E
abuse of the law. They spend hours glued to their E
computer terminals, calling local or long distance 1ft- n
in the eternal pursuit for the ultimate BBS. Few . f rfCa
BBSs are worth spending a lot of time on, but Ik
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the best. fj.
"This is just the place to be for intelligent debate
on any subject," says Milo Bloom, the pseudonym
for a Columbia journalist. "The WordWorks is
just several cuts above those boards where
everyone is a Death Knight or Demon Prince or
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By CHUCK DEAN
Staff writer
New Grass Revival played to a packed house this Friday
at Greenstreets. Greenstreets, at 1011 Harden Street at the
Bazaar, has been working overtime providing Colum- b
hianc with lino ? u' -
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prices. T
Earlier this month, Greenstreets presented the likes of h
Marti Jones, The Swimming Pool Q's, Leon Redbone and e:
Moja Nya. On Wednesday and Thursday the club will
rock reggae-style with Columbia favorite I-TAL; Oct. 24 si
sees legendary John Prine performing. Camper Van "
Beethoven, a popular band around college campuses, will c
perform Oct. 28, and on Oct. 30, the Texan Johnny s<
Winter will play. t
The club is particularly good for seeing big-name acts s<
because of the stage setup ? there is virtually not a bad F
seat in the house. Plus, Greenstreets offers to-your-table
cocktail waitress service ? a rarity for rock'n'roll clubs
in this area. They're nice waitresses, too. They'll bring L
you a bowl of chips if you ask nicely. ai
So, New Grass Revival? The audience's reaction includ- f?
ed whoops, hollers, yells and several standing ovations.
All during the performance, tUe crowd requested one song it
after another ? knowing the band's repertoire by heart. gJ
At one point, the band told the crowd, "Well, if they ain't b
no requests, we'll sing you this song . . ."
John Cowan, Bela Fleck, Pat Flynn and Sam Bush cl
make up New Grass Revival ? producing a fc
-tech toy of newGreat
Big Hairy Deal or something in a simil
Pvein. The people who call up WordWorks regulai
aren't looking for anything more than intelligt
electronic correspondence."
An IBM PC clone, a single floppy disk drive
20 megabyte hard disk drive, an Epson MXprinter,
an Everex modem card and TBBS coi
munications software make up the actual coi
ponents of the Works.
The hardware, the electronic components
these are physical parts. As any person on t
WordWorks will tell you, electronic parts do noi
BBS make.
ni "the works is the people on the Works," sa
h/ one BBSer. "Sure, any BBS can come up with tl
Ji part or this board, or this message base or ti
|| editorial base. But can any other system come i
with Milo Bloom, Oliver Wendell Jones or Y
jjj Blazoo? The Works is the only system in Columt
HI where you can have an intelligent discussion with
J cartoon character."
Well, not exactly cartoon characters, but peop
] ? professors, public officials and students ? w]
? choose to use pseudonyms out of necessity
Sure, there are real "characters" on the Wor
Works, too. No dialogue can go on long withoul
iff^T one"l*ner from the mischievous Ray Radlein. The
o J is also Bill Weston, the "Answerman
Residence" on the ARTS AND SCIENCES boar
Weston, a professional detective, prides himself <
being able to find the most arcane and trivial faci
He insists, for instance, that he knows the set!
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Greenstreets
Concert Review ]
luegrass/gospel/rock-a-billy/rock'n'roll type of music,
heir second album for Capital Records was just released,
he success of this band rests in the fact that the four men
ave a chemistry going ? it propels their energetic set and
xhausts the audience.
Some of Friday's highlights included a lengthy inrumental
written by Fleck, the banjo man. This song,
Bigfoot," was a musical romp that brought about^a
harlie Daniels kind of feeling. Fleck has just released a
dIo album, Drive, on Rounder Records. The Los Angeles
lerald Examiner wrote of him: "Fleck is a wonder. He
Dunds like no banjo player before him." He proved it
riday night.
Bush played a mean mandolin on a tune called, "Last
etter Home" and had people dancing and clogging in the
isles and yelling "Ya-hoooooooo." Another crowd
ivorite was the energy-packed "Out of the Darkness."
New Grass Revival, with their polished, uplifting
lusic, deserve the respect, praise and success they are
arnering. As proven Friday, the band is great, and the
and's music is available on Captial Records.
The club is Greenstreets ? 779-8252. It is a rock'n'roll
ub ? more so, a live rock'n'roll club. If you're looking
>r a great rock'n'roll experience, go there.
breed hackers
lar formula for Coca-Cola.
rly The system is also populated by characters such
:nt as the Censorship Sentinel, who gives case studies
of current censorship incidents and punctuates his
, a call to arms with Write! Write! Write! Stand up
80 and be counted!
m- "As far as the community of the
m- Works . . . They are a group of nasty, opinionated,
arrogant, over-educated, well-read, in?
telligent . . . Hey, I like them," Weston says. "I
he mean, one can be 'nice' just so long until
t a somebody rubs you the wrong way, then you have
to get nasty. But I think that the majority of callers
lys here expect that. In fact, many of them hope for it.
us une weeK, you ana anoiner cauer may oe at oaas,
lis the next, you stand side by side."
up Of course, there is Wes Ives ? Wesley D. Ives ?
54 creator, arbitrator and system censor of the Wordda
Works. Ives is the sysop, systems operator, the one
1 a who created this monster compilation of message
boards.
>le "If it wasn't for the cheap beer and classical
do music, I'd probably never get any sys-oping done,
or The computing is definitely subordinate, and I'm
therefore not what I consider a computer whiz."
d- Ives brought the system to Columbia in 1986
: a from Winston-Salem, N.C., where the system was
re born in August 1983. Ives says that during its exin
istence "the WordWorks has received something
d. like one call every hour, 24 hours a day, from
throughout the country" and has been running
tSv continuously "since it first fell captive to the Song
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