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<H1>BBS Files: IceNEWS</H1>
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"IceNEWS was the official news-letter of the IceNET BBS network.
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IceNET was a BBS network based around the BBS software package WWIV.
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WWIV was first written by Wayne Bell (Random) in BASIC in the early 1980's.
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In the mid-1980's he rewrote it in Turbo Pascal - it first became popular
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around the Turbo Pascal v2.x and v3.x versions. In the late 1980's
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Wayne Bell taught himself C using Turbo C and rewrote WWIV in C, giving
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the world WWIV v4.x. Around version 4.06 (if I remember correctly)
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Wayne Bell introduced the concept of networking into WWIV. It was
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loosely based on the networking model you see in Usenet Newsgroups.
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<P>It was around this time that WWIVnet came into existence.; Due
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to internal strife in the WWIVnet world, a revolution occurred and several
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systems broke away to form WWIVlink. Then, in the Buffalo, NY area
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Jim Nunn was setting up a BBS of his own. He decided to use WWIV
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as his BBS software. But due to Western New York BBS politics he
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couldn't get his Great White North BBS into WWIVnet. So, Jim set
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up IceNET so that he could learn WWIV based networking while trying to
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navigate the world of BBS politics to get into WWIVnet. In
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that process... IceNET became a real rival to WWIVnet in its own right.
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<P>IceNET normal perceived as above the fray of normal BBS politics quickly
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grew. It then grew from a mid sized local network to a small national
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network. That occurred when a local network in New Orleans, LA asked
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Jim Nunn to merge IceNET with their local network. So, it went from
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about 13-15 boards in WNY to about 25-30 boards in both WNY and the New
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Orleans, LA area.
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<P>I am not sure of this, but I think it was about this time that IceNET
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became the 3rd largest WWIV based BBS network around. Every area
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had its WWIVnet systems. A lot of areas had their WWIVlink systems.
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Those were the national networks. Every area, from what I have seen
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now, had its local WWIV based network. For a long time, in WNY, that
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network was Trident<>Relay setup by Adam Lambert (Eh ????). But
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Adam let that network go. He tried to make it grow every now and
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then, and would asks a board or two to join it... but then it would die
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again.
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<P>Anyway, to cut this story short... WWIVnet had a WWIVnews
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news-letter. So, Jim Nunn thought that IceNET should have an IceNEWS
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newsletter. JIm got Louis Hall (LouHal) at the The Forest BBS in WNY to
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put something together. He put the first issue together in September
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1992. That first issue was not very long and contained a few items
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that were local to the WNY area and to LouHal's board itself. But
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there were a few folks who read it on a regular basis and enjoyed it."</I>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00FF00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Filename</B><BR></FONT></TD>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00DD00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Size</B><BR></FONT></TD>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00AA00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Description of the Textfile</B><BR></
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/icenews.txt">icenews.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 4832<BR><TD> An Introduction to IceNEWS, by DNR
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9209.txt">news9209.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 19833<BR><TD> ICEnet News (September 1992)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9210.txt">news9210.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 31035<BR><TD> ICEnet News (October, 1992)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9211.txt">news9211.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 30334<BR><TD> ICEnet News (November, 1992)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9212.txt">news9212.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 53485<BR><TD> ICEnet News (December, 1992)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9302.txt">news9302.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 78806<BR><TD> ICEnet News (February, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9303.txt">news9303.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 54406<BR><TD> ICEnet News (March, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9304.txt">news9304.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 65795<BR><TD> ICEnet News (April, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9305.txt">news9305.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 55598<BR><TD> ICEnet News (May, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9306.txt">news9306.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 57145<BR><TD> ICEnet News (June, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9307.txt">news9307.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 53139<BR><TD> ICEnet News (July, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9312.txt">news9312.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 97293<BR><TD> ICEnet News (December, 1993)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9401.txt">news9401.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 99667<BR><TD> ICEnet News (January, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9402.txt">news9402.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 87016<BR><TD> ICEnet News (February, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9403.txt">news9403.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 92928<BR><TD> ICEnet News (March, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9404.txt">news9404.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 77707<BR><TD> ICEnet News (April, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9405.txt">news9405.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 128302<BR><TD> ICEnet News (May, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9406.txt">news9406.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 143395<BR><TD> ICEnet News (June, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9407.txt">news9407.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 136876<BR><TD> ICEnet News (July, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9408.txt">news9408.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 147749<BR><TD> ICEnet News (August, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9409.txt">news9409.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 111361<BR><TD> ICEnet News (September, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9411.txt">news9411.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 141095<BR><TD> ICEnet News (November, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9412.txt">news9412.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 95674<BR><TD> ICEnet News (December, 1994)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9501.txt">news9501.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 83006<BR><TD> ICEnet News (January, 1995)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="ICENEWS/news9506.txt">news9506.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 107111<BR><TD> ICEnet News (June, 1995)
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</TABLE><P><TABLE WIDTH=100%><TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><SMALL>There are 25 files for a total of 2,053,588 bytes.</SMALL></TABLE> |