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<B>HAVE YOU SEEN FALL OF THE MODEM WORLD?</B>
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Essentially, and I do mean essentially, pretty much every "major" BBS textfile
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that was passed around on various BBSes throughout the 1980's has made it onto
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textfiles.com. Sure, I'm still finding files written from that era, but most
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of them only made it to a handful of boards in one town and someone was kind
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enough to send me their collection. Pretty much all the "big hits" have been
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tracked down and brought onto the site.
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Except one.
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"Fall of the Modem World" was written by someone named "Chris" and represents
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one of the more non-famous famous files ever made. In it, he talks about his
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time with BBSes and (or so I've heard) touches on the entire BBS culture as an
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entity, with a few years behind him. While most of the references I find insult
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the file (see below), it has had enough of an effect on people that it is the
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most-requested missing file. I've spent over a year trying to track it down,
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so I'm turning to you.
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Do NOT confuse, like I did, "Voices in My Head" by Patrick Kroupa with "Fall of
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the Modem World". Mr. Kroupa definitely took some inspiration from "FOTMW", but
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his work stands completely alone and he's not the same author at all.
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Let me give you the small amount of references and writings I have to it.
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Here's a cranky paragraph about it from one <A HREF="http://www.soldierx.com/txtfiles/phreak/tap-int.3.txt">file</A>:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<I>"Fall of the Modem World": What can I say about it? In SOOOOOO many ways I
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loved it and it says a lot of things I would have wanted to say myself. But the
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dude (Chris) fucks it up. He starts talking about the way things "SHOULD" be.
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Which is a load of shit. He attempts to look at it from a unattached point of
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view and gets too deaply involved in whats wrong with everything. And to top
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it off he writes way too much heresay about people he doesn't know at all (like
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3/4 of the people he wrote about) and is only repeating things other people
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told him, which weren't true. Specifically in one section he says he never met
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The Plague, then in the next he says he did. While it was "Charged Particle"
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who he met at TAP (the elite starting place of all this) as explained by the
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person himself in the PA (Phantom Access) Miscdisk's.</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Lord Digital mentions Fall of the Modem World in <A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/apple/DOCUMENTATION/phantom.access1">his
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own file</A>:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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"Most of the stuff said about TAP wasn't true and has come
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from me anyway. For instance Chris, in Fall of the Modem World, called
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me an idiot and then went on to directly copy my sometimes incorrect or
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obselete information from Tap.Interviews II."
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</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Finally, in a letter dated 1993 from Swamp Ratte' that someone was kind enough
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to forward to me, he mentions the file as well:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<I>
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"FALL.MODEMW.ZIP : "Fall Of The Modem World". I had like 1/5th of this up on
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here for years and didn't know it was incomplete until recently, so here's the
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full version."</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
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I've often been surprised in the past by what people have sitting around on their
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drives that they don't know represents one of the last copies of a famous file.
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Here's your chance to help me save a special file that affected a lot of folks
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but is in danger of being lost. Thanks.
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Jason Scott<BR>
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<B>TEXTFILES.COM</B>
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