In St. Louis, it's not just #piday but also #314day, the city's area code. As a math nerd and a fan of my city, much to be celebrated.
Song of the day:
STL Streets: Round ✌️
Happy #314Day, St. Louis!
A lot of Pi Day Pizza promos happening today here in Canada for 3.14 day.
Which is weird because we're usually day-month-year (14.03.2025) and that certainly doesn't make any sense LOL
Just another bit of conflict to add between our countries during these politically charged times.
@jacekstaszczuk 1) Pewnie. 😁
2) Nie wiem - jak chcesz.
Aaa! Klasa mojej żony, dawno temu, popełniła coś takiego.
For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
We asked the guys to pronounce some STL street names. It did not go well.
Rolen had one.
So did Pujols.
Brebbia nearly returned to ruin his.
Shorty Fuller and Wee Willie Sudhoff had theirs.
But Bob Gibson, Matt Morris, Dizzy Dean, and Adam Wainwright in his rookie season only came close ...
Putting the #314Day in 314 ballclub https://stltoday.com/sports/profess…
Happy #314day to all who celebrate. Say it loud- I’m from the ‘Lou and I’m proud!
I don't celebrate #314day, but I do celebrate a certain millisecond early in these yearly mornings, namely the one that begins at 3:49:20.527. did i do my arithmetic correctly? (I celebrate by sleeping. after all, the moment is so, so brief and very early in that specific millisecond)
I've been sharing a lot lately about "IGS", a plain-text language for transmitting graphics and animation.
In 1993, Fire Escape began to track which BBSes supported graphics protocols like IGS or the far-more widely used RIPscrip.
Unfortunately, RIPscrip got too late of a start. Its adoption by BBSes in St. Louis began ticking up at exactly the time the scene was collapsing.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/06/06/visualizing-314-the-st-louis-scene-in-charts/
#stlouis #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #digipres #314Day #stl #bbs #datajournalism
WWIV was the overwhelming favorite BBS software in St. Louis through the 1990s.
Interestingly, the second-place software switched in mid-1993 from Telegard to Wildcat.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/06/06/visualizing-314-the-st-louis-scene-in-charts/
#stlouis #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #digipres #314Day #stl #bbs #datajournalism
The peak of the #BBS scene was June 1994, when St. Louis had 361 bulletin boards.
But within a year, the freefall had begun. People abandoned #BBSing in favor of the world wide web. By 1998, there were fewer than 100 boards on Fire Escape's list.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/06/06/visualizing-314-the-st-louis-scene-in-charts/
#stlouis #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #digipres #314Day #stl #bbs #datajournalism