ÜÜÜ ŪÜŪÜŪ MiLK and tea will ruin the scene in '95! ŻŽŪŻŽ / ßÜÜÜß Ä[ Mighty illicit Liquid Kollections AND Text elite Anarchists present: MiLK & TeA issue #002 "Obloid Recollections" -By Nyarlathotep ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The history of the Obloid Sphere (By Nyarlathotep) The history of the Obloid Sphere should probably begin with the the history of another very influential BBS, The Halls of the Video Warrior. I am not sure of the early history of this board, so I will talk of it from the time when I joined it. When I first called it (I got the number from the Stillwaters BBS list) it was actually under the name of The Wine Cellar, and the sysop was Ambrose Spike, cool guy. Well, this carnation was short lived, and soon it returned to its previous name of Halls of the Video Warrior (Hallza), with Ambrose emerging that handle with his old handle of Dirk Gently, forming Dirkbrose Spikely. This was back in the days when I first started modeming really, and for some reason I kept running across a certain guy, James Hetfeild on every board I called. Hallza was no exception. Hallza's greatest claim to fame was the best Neverending story base ever. And on this base was the greatest story ever. Basically it pitted the Dirkbrose and his cosysops in an adventure to find the Obloid Sphere in order to save the world from some great flood or something. Jamesy and myself were both very active in posting on this storey, and for the few weeks it lasted, it was the greatest thing ever. Well, now a couple of months later, I am chatting with Jamesy on Nuclear Greenhouse, and he mentions that he is making a board, and wants to know if Ill call it and test it out. I say ok, and I test it out, and play Operation Overkill ][, which I was hooked on at that time. He then asks me if I wanted to be a co, because he wants the password of THEFOURHORSEMEN to make sense. Ok, I say, and along with Dark Lord (now known as Dalamar) and someone else, I begin to take my place in history. Sometime around Christmas Break of the 92-93 school year the board officially goes up. At first things are slow, but certain regulars pop up along with me Jamesy and Dork Lard. Lady Catninja, Constantine, Jack Roberts and Oregano were some of the early users. It is around this timt when a very good game of Trade Wars began, with the evil forces of myself and Jamesy under Dark Lord pitted against LCN, Constantine and the forces of good. This game didnt last too long before one of the spheres early cycles of overhauls. The Sphere used to go down and get changed on what seem seemed be almost a monthly basis way back then. I lost count somewhere around the fourth incarnation, but Jamesy might know what the Sphere's current incarnation is. This was annoying to some of the users, but the message bases still were full. That was the amazing thing about the board, was that it was basically purely a message board, one of the few in the existance, and also the only one that I know of that has survived so long. Sometime in the Summer of '93 Jamesy began his first attempt at a textfile group, Oblo1dism, or something to that effect. This group did not last very long, but it included the immortal work of Oregano, the Ingestable Dog. It was also around the summer of '93 that Midget Caesar and Jack Robert's sister joined the expanding user list, which also now included Nex, and an occasional visit by Windrider. The summer of '93 is also noteworthy as it was at this time that the Orignal BaGFeST took place. The six original BaGFeSTeRs, Oregano, Jack Roberts, Jamesy, Midget Caesar, Count Zero and myself romped around evanston with Bags on our heads and our spirits high. It was a success despite the low turnout. Sometime after the '93-'94 school year began Jamesy started MiLK out of the ashes of Obloidism, but thats another story. At this time I was sort of Distant, as I was away at school. Eventually Barney's Pleasure Palace came up in the Sphere's place. However soon after the '93-'94 school year was over for me, the Sphere was backin its rightful place. The summer of 94 included BaGFeST II, which was a phenomenal success with 20 participants including all of the original 6. Then, at the beginning of the '94-'95 school year disaster struck. Evil parents forced the dismantling of the Sphere, and as a side of effect, the death of MiLK. However, you can't keep a good Sphere down, and eventually it did rise again. And along with the Revival of the Obloid Sphere comes the spawining of MiLK and Tea from MiLK and the New Jersey t-file group of THo (kinda). And that is the History of the Obloid Sphere... for now at least. ŚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄæ ³ MiLK & TeA Member Listing: ³ ³ ³ ³ James Hetfield Rattle Pip The Angry Youth Nyarlathotep ³ ³ ³ ³ MiLK & TeA Sights: ³ ³ ³ ³ The Obloid Sphere 41:708/1 [708]965-3098 [Illinoizze] ³ ³ The Land of Rape and Honey 41:609/1 [609]698-1358 [New Jarsee] ³ ³ ³ ³ Note: These are the only two MiLK & TeA sights to date. There are like ³ ³ 10,000 other boards supposedly ready to be milk and tea sights, but until ³ ³ I get the news that say they are ready to distribute, They'll remain ³ ³ unlisted. -Jamesy ³ ³ ³ ³ An udder note: The addresses listed above are for [LaMENeT], The offical ³ ³ net of M&T. You can reach the editors of M&T through the boards listed ³ ³ above with LaMENeT Addresses. Whoomp, there it is. ³ ³ ³ ³ .nfo: File: #002 Author: Nyarlathotep ³ ³ Size: 6781 Bytes Title: "Obloid Recollections" ³ ³ ³ ĄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄŁ