Diversi-Dial , or DDial was an online chat server that was popular during the mid-1980s. It was a specialized type of bulletin board system that allowed all callers to send lines of text to each other in real-time, often operating at 300 baud . In some ways, it was a sociological forerunner to IRC , and was a cheap, local alternative to CompuServe chat, which was expensive and billed by the minute. At its peak, at least 35 major DDial systems existed across the United States , many of them in large cities. During the evening when telephone rates were low, the biggest DDial systems would link together using Telenet or PC Pursuit connections, forming regional chat networks.
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81-499: A Japanese commercial broadcaster Culture [ edit ] Satanas , a Filipino-American gang Stepover toehold sleeper , a wrestling hold S.T.S. (band) , an Austropop band Societies, organizations and companies [ edit ] Scottish Tartans Society , a defunct Scottish society Sisu Terminal Systems , a former terminal tractor producer Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki ,
108-461: A cryptographic key agreement scheme Synergy Teleconferencing System , a PC-based chat server Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale , the Romanian special telecommunication service STS Relay , US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability STS (TV channel) , Russia Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking Saga Television Station ,
135-405: A cryptographic key agreement scheme Synergy Teleconferencing System , a PC-based chat server Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale , the Romanian special telecommunication service STS Relay , US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability STS (TV channel) , Russia Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking Saga Television Station ,
162-543: A defunct Finnish commercial bank Hitachi Rail STS , formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems Other uses [ edit ] Saints , the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul Short-term business statistics Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School , Alberta, Canada Susquehannock Trail System , Pennsylvania, US See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing STS All pages with titles beginning with STS Topics referred to by
189-543: A defunct Finnish commercial bank Hitachi Rail STS , formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems Other uses [ edit ] Saints , the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul Short-term business statistics Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School , Alberta, Canada Susquehannock Trail System , Pennsylvania, US See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing STS All pages with titles beginning with STS Topics referred to by
216-549: A foot condition Places [ edit ] Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons Staffordshire , county in England, Chapman code Transport [ edit ] Cadillac STS , a luxury car NASA Space Transportation System , the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles NASA Space Shuttle program ,
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270-741: A luxury car NASA Space Transportation System , the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles NASA Space Shuttle program , the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering Sail training ship, a ship prefix Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground , airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Ship-to-ship transfer , between seagoing ships Société de transport de Sherbrooke ,
297-742: A public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada STS Group (Dubai) , a transportation company for private schools Sonar Technician Submarine , a US Navy rating STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station , Cornwall, UK Science and technology [ edit ] Space Tourism Society Scanning tunneling spectroscopy Science and technology studies , a.k.a. science, technology, and society Sociotechnical system Special treatment steel , used by
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#1732765491356324-722: A public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Société de transport du Saguenay , a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada STS Group (Dubai) , a transportation company for private schools Sonar Technician Submarine , a US Navy rating STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station , Cornwall, UK Science and technology [ edit ] Space Tourism Society Scanning tunneling spectroscopy Science and technology studies , a.k.a. science, technology, and society Sociotechnical system Special treatment steel , used by
351-669: A small cluster of Apple II computers, with seven connections per computer. In 1989, a DDial-like clone, Synergy Teleconferencing System AKA STS was developed for the IBM PC , but by this time it was outpaced by alternatives like GEnie . By the mid-1990s, DDials had been bypassed by the Internet and IRC, although Chicago 's God's Country , kept an incredibly loyal following between 1985–87 and 1989-1998. Many of its users are still close to this day. Many client software programs existed for BBS connections back then, but one in particular for
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405-554: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Synergy Teleconferencing System Diversi-Dial was written by Bill Basham , a computer hobbyist who ran a company known as Diversified Software Research in Farmington Hills , Michigan . The software was written while he was a resident of Rockford, Illinois . Bill Basham ran a copy of the system himself in Rockford at
432-485: The Commodore 64 was optimized just for DDial, call Eagleterm 6a. Written by Jungle Jim (Jj), aka Jim Sanders, and released as freeware and saw widespread use among Ddialers. EagleTerm6a took full advantage of Commodore 64 pulse dial modem technology, heavily optimized to find the max pulse speed of the user's local phone connection, and rapid fire re-dial back in to beat the other callers when reconnecting, easily beating
459-597: The Chicago area hosted over 10 DDial or clone systems, possibly due to its relative proximity to the Rockford origins of Basham's DD #1. ENTchat , an Internet-based DDial look-alike, was somewhat active in the mid- to late 1990s but also went offline. In 2006, The Late Night BBS went online, utilizing the original DDial software running on an Apple IIe , but was accessible from the Internet via telnet . The system provided an authentic 1980s ddial experience, including
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513-501: The US Navy c.1910 Static transfer switch , a semiconductor switch STS 5 an Australopithecus specimen Suomenkielisten teknikkojen seura, now incorporated into Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK Computing and communications [ edit ] HTTP Strict Transport Security Security token service , a web service Set Transmit State, hex 93 in the C1 set of control codes Spring Tool Suite, IDE for Spring Framework Station-to-Station protocol ,
540-509: The knowledge gleaned from having run a social and community based computer system for a decade prior to initial popularity of the Web. Point Zer0 was the other long-term Chicago-area Ddial, along with Jokertown. Other Chicago-area Ddials of Note included God's Country, Kaleidoscope, General Modem (DDial #13), Tangled Web, Twilight Zone, Spinnaker's Pub, The Bunker (DDial #4), Cloud Nine (DDial #38), Black Magic and others. At one period of time,
567-582: The newer tone dial modems just coming to market. During peak times, the DDial system was jam packed with callers far exceeding the number of available lines, and a super fast dialer was a plus. Later versions of Eagleterm6a were protected against reverse engineering (not de-compilable using unBlitz.) One DDial owner went on to become the founder and CEO of Honesty.com, the first web-based third-party Internet application corporation, focused on E-Commerce sites such as eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! Auctions, by utilizing
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#1732765491356594-462: The same naming scheme as "Diversi-[something]". Customers typically paid the local DDial owner a flat rate of about $ 5 to $ 20 per month. Open access to anonymous visitors (called nons , r0s JAMFs or m0es ) was an effective hook to draw in paid registrations. Nons typically had a five-minute connect time limit unless they were "validated" by an assistant sysop , and were shut out of the system during peak usage hours. A typical DDial system ran on
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675-422: The shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering Sail training ship, a ship prefix Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground , airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Ship-to-ship transfer , between seagoing ships Société de transport de Sherbrooke , a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Société de transport du Saguenay ,
702-616: The time. Kim Kirkpatrick, "Hubcap" also in Rockford, ran DDial#2 and a lot of early testing was done between Bill and Kim. Another early Rockford site was owned by Dale Wishop (GOD) named "Heaven and Hell - The World that GOD Rulz Over!". The phone company had to run miles of new cable just to accommodate the additional phone lines. When "Heaven and Hell" shutdown, Dale sold some of his 1200 baud Applecat modems to Scott and Terri Johnson (Megabucks and Spender), and DDial #12 “Spenderz Never Inn” started up in its place, running on two Apple //e computers and 12 phone lines. All of Bill's software followed
729-493: The traditional 300 bit/s connection speed. Late Night BBS has since gone offline. As of 2012, there are only two known DDial stations in operation: Retro-Dial , a Linux-based chat server with the look and feel of DDial, currently has multiple stations in operation which are usually linked with each other as well as The Savage Frontier. The home station for Retro-Dial can be reached via telnet at carriersync.com. In late June, 2013, several members of Rockford, IL area DDials held
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