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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by burfog on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:29PM (#19402002)
I think "TacoLand" has a meaning that could be awkward.

The food can be a metaphor for genitalia or for the attached humans. For example a tacofest, much like a sausagefest, is a gathering in which one sex is greatly overrepresented compared to the other. Meat goes in a taco.

So, one can guess what was featured on his BBS.

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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by NelsonMinar on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:53PM (#19402292)
This comment says more about you than Beto.
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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by jandrese on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:45PM (#19404123)
You can look up his textfiles if you want to see what was on the BBS.
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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by burfog on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:19PM (#19404845)
He wrote this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041214030544/http://www.cultde...

That at least somewhat supports my interpretation. I was thinking more along the lines of image files.

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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by jandrese on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:29PM (#19405584)
That he was an edgy teenager? Yeah.

Image files back in the 80s weren't super common because everybody was on slow dialup and had crappy CGA graphics. There was a fair bit of risque ANSI crawls from groups like ACID and ICE, but they were usually too artistic to be considered just porn.

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