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Joe Talmadge of HP authored the first two BIFF postings. BIFF was like a western version of Borat and was a 14 yr old retard with a commodore 64. After those two Joe never did another but I picked it up. I forged maybe a dozen postings as BIFF@BIT.NET (BIFF) poking sticks at assholes that truly deserved it. Some weiner at UNIX today magazine complained in a column about this so I forged a BIFF posting tracable back to his account which shut him up. When the secret of how to forge usenet postings got out the college kiddies ran with it and made a real mess out of it. They used numbers instead of letters (and I think invented l33tspeak) and were fairly numerous. But not as funny.
Christ Wikipedia pisses me off. For nearly a decade I've been trying to set the record straight on what should be a simple hsitorical fact that can be verified by any decent student of Usenet history. But nooooooooooo, prepubescent weiners posing as "editors" of Wikipedia must continuously sodomize the facts and throw out any attempts to correct them.
Why I'm still trying I'll never know. But, once more with feeling. Lets dissect the current inaccurate driven on wikimadness shall we. I draw your attention to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF
A sentence exemplifying BIFF would be: " ths soydns lik her o" "it hyrtd to typ lik ths thoyhg"
Nope, not really. What idiot thought this up? How do I prove the non-existance of a negative?
BIFF posted articles using his elder brother's Commodore VIC-20. (At a time when most active internet users were sophisticated computer scientists sharing centrally managed "big metal"
Nope. Nearly everybody I knew back then had a "small" computer. Some guys had vaxes but even then in the late 80s pcs, macs, Amigas, you name it where what we were using, on dial up UUCP connections, in my case to gryphon.com which was a PC. Ok it may have been the first PC on the UUCP net, point was though I'd hardly characterise that era as being strictly "big iron". Nor would I categorize a PDP-11 as "big iron" either. Sure a mainframe 11/70 was bit LSI11's and 11/34 wern't. Guys had those in their garage.
BIFF was originally created by Joe Talmadge, also the author of the infamous and much-plagiarised "Flamer's Bible" (1987). The BIFF filter he wrote was later passed to Richard Sexton,
I'm getting pretty sick of saying this. I have for over a decade and it keeps going away. Repeat after me:
There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter". There never was a "biff filter".
Never. Ever. It was just me typing.
And if you saw numbers instead of letters that was probably that prick Rob Clark up as PSUVM or one of that gang. They did that, I never got numbers in there, just good old honest typos, the kind I've been known for since 1200 baud modems were hot shit.
BIFF served as a satire of an exceptional behaviour in a fairly homogeneous environment.[5]
The explosive growth of the web led to the rapid decline of BIFF, as on the one hand Biffisms became no longer exceptional,
Who writes this shit? Why do they just pull facts out of their ass? I was off the net when I moved from LA to Canada in 1990 and didn't get back on till 92-92 or so. Plus, gryphon and its owner died in 1990. That's why Biff ended. Pinheads.
I see biff lives on in spirit thuogh. This just in:
> On Mar 16, 10:29 pm, "Joe Forster/STA" wrote:
>>> Alright, who's the wise guy that blocked my access to comp.sys.cbm?
>> You can contact him at biff@bit.net.
> Thank You! I just now sent him a message.
Please make sure you forward his reply here, thanks.
Good luck with this.
Here's the BIFF postings of mine that a) I can remember doing and b) have managed to stay on the net someplace.
one two three four five six seven eight
Greg Laskin and his computer, gryphon.com died in April 1990 so it was all over for me then. Postings from BIFF after that date, like this one were not me. I hear Rob Clark did the first few than taught all of Penn State to forge postings. I just kept my head low after that.
Or not. Looks like I found a way to post this in August of 1990. I had dialed into ccipg and posted as Alf Emmett. Somebody else posted as Biff. Life imitates art.
Dave Mack was starting to notice, at the end of the thread that somebody else was posting as BIFF now. The gig was indeed up, at least for me.
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