Uber directory of legal torrents 

This source is great, but there are not many files to choose from. If there are other sources that also have RSS feeds, the collected feeds would make a useful OPML file, wouldn't they? I haven't gone looking yet. Do you know of other similar respositories?

I'm gettting a sample episode from the documentary miniseries on the old BBSs -- at over 1meg/second.

Huh! Wonder what the story is on this. For a while, starting in mid-2005, the whole series was available free via Bittorrent. Now it seems to have been pulled. Doesn't seem quite in the spirit of the old days, does it?

Now, if I do find a source like just one blog post containing links to torrent files, I'm trying to think how I'd handle including it in an OPML directory. Maybe have three files: a master file with two inclusions, one for sources with feeds that you could use as a subscription list, and another with stray sources not in feeds?

Got all sentimental 

I'd heard of the BBS documentary a year ago or more. I think Todd Cochrane mentioned it when it came out. But I happened on it again this morning because I went looking for mentions of MajorNet, the BBS network I used, which history seemed to have forgotten. Three things happened in the last couple of days that have got me all mushy about the olden days:

1. Arrington put up forums, and Kosso mentioned Matt's WWWBoard, one of my first hacking sandboxes, too.

2. Calacanis posted about how lovely it is to find prospective employees who consistently have been working on the web for 10 years or more.

3. My little guy and I laughed at me yesterday for the way I tell about things like my move to a 286 with a 40MB harddrive from the Apple IIc with no harddrive and only one floppy drive. It's the modern version of the old "walked barefoot to school five miles in the snow." Think of it though. One podcast today would fill up the whole damn drive on my old Epson.

I'll never be able to claim earliest adopter status. My first modem blazed away at a speedy 1200 baud.