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Notes From Ralph

This bulletin board does not censor the messages that are placed in it. Disgusting language, repulsive concepts, and revolutionary thinking may abound. If you can't stomach that kind of thing, hang up now!

Warning displayed when someone connected with Big Brother

From Ralph Records in San Francisco comes a light-hearted variation on Orwell's prophecy — an Apple II computer dubbed Frank Johnson.

Interview with Hardy Fox, InfoWorld, April 16th, 1984

Although parts of the Ralph Records BBS (afectionately dubbed "Big Brother") are devoted to mail-order business, most of the board is what Fox terms "of a bent aesthethic". (...) Fox wants to keep it that way. "We'd prefer that our callers know who Fellini is", he says, referring to the eccentric italian movie director.

Interview with Hardy Fox, InfoWorld, June 18th, 1984

Twenty years later a plan was hatched to launch an official Residents web site and it was only fitting that its operator be named after Big Brother. So today we have the reincarnation of the spirit of the original BBS system, the Big Brother System.

(The Legacy of) Big Brother, The Last Word blog entry, 2008

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