Doc’s 52FLC Archives | Keeping Up With Tech

Update 6/30/24: My newly registered domain 52FLC.org for this website has been hijacked. Actually my 10+year old CloudFlair account had it’s password changed ant reset password emal never arrives. Also held hostage are my FidoSysop.org and DocsPlace.org that was registered in 1998 for my old Net connected Fidonet BBS. To make matters worse 52flc,org was registered at CloudFlare Registrar who does not allow inter cloudflare domain transfers. Ive spent the past two weeks trying every trick I know to regain access to my original account, and only Bus and Enterprise accounts have phone support! I’ve been going nuts following help leeks to no avail. All my political archives are at MagaFacts.com

Welcome to Doc’s 52FLC Archives. My name is Ed Koon, AKA Doc and FidoSysop. I am a former used car dealer and ASE-certified mechanic. As a hobby, I was one of the first computer bulletin board system operators (SysOp) to connect a BBS to the internet, creating a new gateway for so many Fidonet members to get BBS access in 1998 when many dial-up BBSs threw the big switch off. It was online for 32 years, running on an old Dell Optiplex under Windows 7. Wildcat V5 with the Internet Connect Pack. It would run for months without a reboot. The most advanced BBS software ever developed. I have backups and might put it back up.

I’ve since turned net hobbyist webmaster. I hang out online and keep up with tech. This website is a hobby and does not attempt to generate revenue. When the internet became public, I started studying its benefits. And here I am, still learning! 🇺🇸

I’ve got many stories to tell, other than politics, but it’s an election year, and our homeland heeds every patriot’s help to save her! 🇺🇸 One I recently published is about James Earl ‘Doc’ Webb, who founded Webb’s City and made St Petersburg, FL, world-famous in the 1950s. And the Green Benches, the Million Dollar Pier, and more. Below is a neat video about Doc Webb and how he built his empire so kong ago!

I wished I had an intelligent businessman like Donald Trump to hang out with when I was younger. The man built an excellent representation and wants a subcontracted job done according to the material and labor specifications.. If a subcontractor cuts corners to pocket the extra cash, that person might not get paid! It’s Business, plain and simple, and Mr. Trump expects the job to be done to his specifications. It reminds me of that Towering Inferno movie. That’s what cutting corners in that business can lead to! 😥

If you’re curious about what the 52FLC stands for, 52 is my birth year. FL refers to Florida, and the C refers to Cracker. Original Floridians were referred to as Crackers. That term goes way back to the early days of Florida. It was pretty popular when I was growing up in Downtown St. Petersburg, but it’s rarely used these days. The TLD extension goes back to the Internet’s early days. The. COM represents Commercial usage, and .NET represents Networks and Internet Service Providers. Finally, ORG represents Organizations such as mine. Which was in 1995 when the Internet was born.