The Cold Boot Society was an informal systems group believed to have operated in Pueblo, Colorado, in the early 1990s, during the height of dial-up bulletin board culture. Membership was limited and loosely organized, centered on shared access to hardware, phone lines, and low-level operating system knowledge. The group left no public record and appears only in scattered handle lists and configuration fragments circulating along Colorado’s Front Range and southern corridor.
The Society’s first recorded meeting was scheduled for November 17, 1992. No confirmed attendees were documented. Later references suggest the meeting was quietly abandoned amid lingering concern from Project Sundevil, which had disrupted phone-phreak and computer groups nationwide the previous year. Line instability, shortened access windows, and heightened caution appear to have been sufficient to cancel the gathering without rescheduling.
The shirts were discovered years later in a sealed box stored in bootsect’s mother’s basement in Pueblo. No paperwork accompanied them, and there is no evidence they were ever distributed.
