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Re: What if you had to use dialup BBSes today.
02/26/12 05:25 AM
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> After booting up my ol' 486SX I got all misty-eyed for those good ol' 16-color ANSI
> days of BBSing. Back when Courier HST meant something with a 2GB hard drive and a few
> modems.
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> How many of us were huge into BBSing back in the late '80's and early '90s?
I was way into BBSes in high school, in the early '90s. There were probably half a dozen or so in my area that I frequented. I got to use a bleeding edge (at the time) 9600 baud modem, because my dad brought one home from the Navy base where he worked so he could dial into the VAX systems and work from home.
The first one I ever connected to was the Software Creations BBS, in central MA, to download Wolfenstein 3D when it was first released. I remember having to get special permission from my dad because it was a long distance call.
Now that we can communicate with literally anyone on the planet in two clicks of a mouse, the whole thing seems kind of quaint and antiquated. It was very cool stuff at the time, though.
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