It was a BBS that first introduced me to the beauty of multiplayer FPS goodness as well as the infamous MUD, Legend of the Red Dragon. My friend and I used to play Doom on a local BBS using a program called MILK. Those were good days.
Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS users back in the day?
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Re: Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS users back in the day?
#22I started out with British Telecom's Prestel, moved on to a VAX-based BBS that all the kids in my town had accounts on, moved on to local Wildcat! BBSs and ended up on a telnet-based BBS (which has been around since before JANET supported TCP/IP) and I'm still there. I did meet my wife online, but not on a BBS (and not on news, and not on the web).
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#23I used for a couple of years in Brazil.
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#24Guilty, regional and national. Quite the little phreak.
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#25Not too young for that. I actually used BBS software, sort of, to run a UUCP node at home and receive low-volume mailing list digests.
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#26When I got started, there were BBS'es, but there was also a local internet "onramp", which was, I decided, way cooler than screwing around dialing into a bunch of BBS'es.
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#27hell, they're still around! hehe, http://members.aol.com/sfritz2994/pdxbbs.htm
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#28I used to run my own BBS back in early 90th based on OS/2 and Maximus, it had an 8-lines modem pool, it was a Fidonet node hence was loaded with tons of usenet news and Fido echos and no-one knew what TCP/IP was and that was tough! Oh, I love those old days... :~-[
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#29I was on the Index BBS in Atlanta, as well as gobs of smaller ones. I was a L.O.R.D. addict, so I'd run out my turns on one BBS and then hop to the next.
When I didn't know what exactly went into running a BBS I paid $15 for a L.O.R.D. license in the early or mid-90s. A couple years back I thought I'd try it out again and couldn't find my key. I emailed the company and they sent it over almost immediately. I couldn't believe they were still around.
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#30There was a local paper called ComputerNews (it may still be around) that had multiple pages of BBS numbers listed. My brother and I would just keep trying each one until we got through and found a Legend of the Red Dragon game we could get in. Nothing was worse than being in the middle of the game when the connection time limit expired.