Fidonet - 2400K baud modems - it was awesome for this sheltered loner.
2400K baud?!
That would have been a fast modem. And a very high physical bandwidth phone line.
BBS: The Documentary (2005)
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Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#62Oh, THAT old thing?
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#63Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#64BBSs were much more personal and local than the internet. I remember going to local board (BBS) parties where you met the face behind the avatar. Online games, chatting with sysops, downloading filez... Those were the days.
Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#65I still have the DVDs in shrink-wrap. Have never watched. The documentary has a glaring omission, not covering COCONET from Coconut Computing.
The documentary is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licensed. I've not heard of COCONET but it seems like a relatively small piece of BBS history. You should set up a cellphone and record yourself talking about it and put it up on archive.org and YouTube.
Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#66It’s surprising how much of this era has just disappeared. I recently searched around to see if I could find a few of the door games from my youth (Legends and Virtual SysOp) and there really isn’t much out there. Some games like Tradewars live on, but software for TBBS/TDBS is basically forgotten.
Working on that… see tbbs.org and the link to the discord…
Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#67It’s surprising how much of this era has just disappeared. I recently searched around to see if I could find a few of the door games from my youth (Legends and Virtual SysOp) and there really isn’t much out there. Some games like Tradewars live on, but software for TBBS/TDBS is basically forgotten.
Working on that… see tbbs.org and the link to the discord…
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