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What was the name? I remember Raistlins Castle and stargate but I can not recall the names of the others. I spent a LOT of time back then playing barren realms elite.
Mine was called PoiZoN BBS.
Like so many of us, I miss the days of the BBS. But I think I know precisely why I do. BBS systems and Usenet were plain-text communications which were fast and open. There wasn't much space for user tracking, analytics, etc. There just wasn't much corporate space. Yes, there were corporate BBSes and public FTPs; but by and large they couldn't pull your call log and see what you'd been up to. There was a sense of pri…
You literally sent every keypress to a remote server that was responsible for both generating all of the views and storing all of the data you touched during that session. It may not have been called user tracking, but the sysops definitely had the capability to see everything that you did.
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mp3s from a BBS at 9600? Surely you jest. MOD and STM, with an outside chance of WAV, were more like it.
Whilst I can't recall downloading an mp3, I remember them existing and I was still at 9600bps in late 1995 when I was on Zipcon. MP3 was introduced in 1993, which was around the time 14400bps modems were introduced. These things cost something like $350+ in 1990s-dollars, and I at least had more time than money at that point in my life.
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My biggest surprise was how quickly everything happened. One day you were considered a massive nerd for having your own computer, spending a lot of time on it, playing games on it, and socializing with others on it. Seemingly the next day everyone was online and had their own email addresses. I remember being amazed the first time I saw website advertised on the side of a bus. It seemed like the world had massively c…
>Now so many people have lived their entire lives with the net all around them and only hearsay about what it was like before. It's become so ubiquitous that the nerds have started complaining about how the tourists have ruined it. Which is understandable on the one hand, and regrettable on the other, because unlike physical real estate, the internet can be a potentially boundless space and there's room in it for eve…
1993. The year of Eternal September