I think all of the people who were too young have simply not commented, so I'll just throw this in: I was too young (I'm 24 now) - or at least if there were BBS's going on, no one I knew, knew about them. How late were they still in vogue?
Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS users back in the day?
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#52I used a BBS in the 806 area code on my commodore 64. Anyone ever play Empire? Fun game.
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#53Once when I was a teenager, my mother went on a business trip for a week and came back to an enormous phone bill. That's all I'm willing to say.
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#54That is funny!! I was sure very young back than but I love to log on the BBS back in Brazil. There wasn't a lot of them but it was great fun to spend hours doing nothing just making the phone bill go bigger and bigger
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#55I started something called the OneNet Member Network (http://www2.onenet.org:8080/index.htm), a macintosh store and forward system baesd out of my garage in Los Altos when I was working at Apple Computer. Wired article here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/eword.html?pg=13
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#56BBS The Firm FTW! 2af / LOD ;)
Niiiice. THG ate your lunch though ;-)
Emulex FTW!
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#57Sure! I used to chat and to "hang around" local BBSes all night long in '93-'95 (or so). I was using an IBM 486 DX 33, and a 14100 modem. This was in Finland, I don't know how much before my active time the BBSes were alive but I think they slowed down a lot afterwards.
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#58Was couriering for quite some time :)
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#59I never ran a BBS (although I thought about it), but I played SRE, BRE, TradeWars, L.O.R.D, and Falcon's Eye. I played SRE the most. Would love to play it again.
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#60Oh, man... I spent a happy fourth and fifth grade dialing into Richmond, VA area BBSes to download shareware games.
Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, and many others...
That lasted until my older brother got a dial up account with his university and let me surf the net with lynx on the family 386.