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Thank you, Ward Christensen. RIP. I was just commenting on another thread earlier today, recounting my nostalgia for dialing into a small BBS after school and talking to my friends.
I met a ton of friends via local BBSes in the 90s. A couple of girlfriends too.
And then there was how I got tons of warez and games… I had access to my dad’s university internet account, so I could get on Usenet and download porn pics. Then I would upload them to local BBSes and get super high ratios.
And then I had the porn and the software.
A true visionary. Thank you for your contributions to the local network that benefinutted from those actions 🤘
Happy to be of service. To myself and others.
Pour one out for a real OG
F in the chat everyone
Computer nerd me loved dialing up BBS’s on my TRS-80 CoCo with 16k RAM. My parents on the other hand hated getting the phone bill. 30 cents a minute in 1980 dollars was steep
Looks like $1.20 in today’s money, assuming usd. That would add up fast lol, I’d have gotten banned from the computer instantly
I thought Al Gore invented the internet?
Right?
Guys?
You guys remember that? Guys? You remember Al Gore?
Wait, am I old???
Not old enough to understand the difference between the internet and a dialup BBS, apparently.
