BBS Era Nostalgia

Wow. Reminds of the old BBS era.

Thanks for posting that! I just had a flashback to my BBS/FidoNet days of childhood.

Sometime around 1994, when I was 14, I remember using QModem to connect to my best friend's computer down the street. We spent all day sending text messages back and forth. Then I discovered BBSs and eventually an early version of the internet offered by my towns local library BBS. A whole world opened up from that moment.Your father's work had a big impact on my life. I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm so old, the first time I connected to a different computer was through a 300 baud modem. The Internet didn't exist yet, just BBSs. The local BBS scene was a blast. I'm still friends with several people I met back then.

There were free BBS's, AOL and Compuserve where you would dial in with your modem. I kind of miss those days to be honest.

Not always islands, if you had a modem and a phone line. Pre-Internet were increasingly numerous BBS systems, from big one’s like AOL and CompuServ to medium sized one’s like GEnie and many tiny independents. Instead of remembering URLs you had lists of phone numbers (the smaller one’s requiring long distance calls when those were still expensive) for your little modems to dial. My Atari ST (a contemporary of the Amiga) was online a lot already during those days. I actually connected to the Inte

missed the good old days of telnet bbs & newsgroup :)

A look at my BBS software from '93 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147583

Maybe you don't remember BBS systems. I know a bunch of people who hosted BBS systems "in their basement", hooking up multiple phone lines (4 or more) and multiple modems connected to a C64, or an Amiga, or a PC. And yes, we were calling all over the country (and the world) to exchange software, programming tools, games, etc. The good old days.

Reminds me of modem days and BBSs. Sigh.