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Remembering the BBS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-day dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Nice reminiscence about BBS's, back in the day and all. Author describes them as "Where a teenage loser could lose himself", which for me would have been pretty accurate. I still miss being able to find cool ASCII graphics, text-based RPG's, and the Anarchist's Cookbook all in one place."

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  1. Re:Flashbacks by OMGWTFBBQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Taking 5 hours to download one grainy porn pic.

  2. You know you're an old fart when... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Funny
    You know you're an old fart when it took you a *WEEK* to download Linux at 2400 baud from a BBS.

    And the sex you get from the Internet isn't like the sex you had from the BBSes...

  3. Re:ANSI archive sites? by BrookHarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    On WWIV BBs's, you could include an Ansi signiture. I put a fake "SysOp Chat mode Enabled" then pretrended to hang up them and pause. I dont Remember exact WWIV chat, but it was something like. And I put pauses between keystrokes, to fake a real person. :)

    [SysOp Chat Mode Enabled]
    Hey There, I have to remove your account, Nice knowing ya. :)

    +++
    NO CARRIER

    Ahh the good ole days. God a few nasty emails about that.