Remembering the BBS

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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Flashbacks

[KFury]

Flashbacks of:

• ANSI animations
• 300 baud connections even a 14-year-old could outtype
• when it was still called 'Elite'
• Telebit 2500 was the coolest thing in the world
• until the HST Dual Standard
• Making a 1-line Hermes board on my mom's fax line in the off hours
• and getting people calling all night
• The guy with the spare VAX and a 16-line BBS was tha coolest pimp in tha Valley.

Finding those people...

[singularity]

I was very active on several BBSs in the 502 area code (Louisville, KY). I had some SysOp privs on some of the boards and even had access to a FidoNet feed. My handle was "Merlyn" (once I got on the Internet, someone was already using that on IRC, so I had to change it - thus my Slashdot user ID of "Singularity" with UID #2031)

Once a month (first Saturday of the month) we would have a physical meeting (called "The Meat") at a local mall.

I remember being envied for my 2400 baud modem hooked up to my Apple //gs.

This was about 1991-1993 or so.

I have not talked with any of those people since. Is there any website devoted to reuniting (as it was) any people from these boards?

I did a simple search a few months ago, and foud a few dead message boards dedicated to boards that were mainly out in the Bay Area, but nothing more than that.