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Blizzard Births BBS

Posted by michael on from the havoc-gunstar dept.

Foundryman writes "Nice bit of history at ZDNet about how the blizzard of 1978 led to the creation of the BBS."

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  1. Snow day... by vspazv · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if the internet would even exist if those guys had had girlfriends during that week snowed in.

  2. Re:Out of Curiosity by yppiz · · Score: 5, Funny
    Few know this, but CBBS, running on its original hardware, is the comments server for slashdot.org.

    --Pat

  3. Ahh Those were the days by Saoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    single character commands, harsh bootings, sounds like my kinda system, pity I wasn't born yet :(

    1. Re:Ahh Those were the days by antiprime · · Score: 5, Funny

      Get drunk to simulate the slow response time, then try to navigate through your favorite modern windowing shell without using a mouse, tie the power cord to your ankle to simulate random rebooting that you somehow blame yourself for: exactly the same effect. For advanced nostalgia, futz with your monitor and display settings so everything's a shade of green and black.

  4. Never would have known... by cabra771 · · Score: 5, Funny

    that those damn people at Blizzard not only killed all my social skills by releasing Diablo and Diablo II, but now I learn that they got me hooked even earlier! Damn all those BBS's I used to visit!!!

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    -my other sig is your mom
  5. Kids and Doors (True Story!) by romper · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the late 80's my parents took away the monitor to "ground" me from playing Tradewars 2002 on the local BBS.

    Of course I could blindly launch telemate from DOS and knew how to turn on the printer log and start the dial-up.

    The printer didn't even have ink! We had to read the carbon copy.

    You kids now with your fancy monitors and colors.

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    Right is wrong when left is right.