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Best BBS Memories?

Posted by Cliff on from the reminiscing-on-the-new-year dept.

TerryAtWork asks: "What are Slashdot readers' best BBS memories? The BBS ruled before the common man got on the Internet and a lot of older Slashdot reader's first on-line experiences were with them."

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  1. When I was 10 years old... by Exocet · · Score: 3, Informative

    My parents gave me and my brother our first computer - an Atari 520ST fm computer with an Emerson 2400 baud modem. This was on advice from a coworker of my dad's who ran an Atari-based BBS.

    From day one we were dialing up BBS's. I have since spent countless thousands (tens?) of hours downloading text files, images, programs, whatever. Posting on the boards, chatting with the SysOp if he (never a she) was around. Playing games like Tradewars 2002.

    Sometime in late 1996 I got my first email account and internet access from a local ISP, Europa. Until then, though, the only online world I knew was that of the BBS.

    BBS's were great but I'd never go back. The ol' internet is far more accessible and wide-reaching. BBS's just can't compete.

    BTW: don't dis the Atari. We could go from a cold boot to being dialed up to the local BBS (Puddle City) in less than 60 seconds.

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    Exocet Industries - Taking over the world, one computer at a