VCF 7.0: BBS Bonanza in Bay Area

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 17, 2004 @05:28PM from the just-time-to-walk dept.

RaD Man [ACiD] writes "Vintage Computer Festival 7.0 will be taking place November 6-7th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California! In addition to the tours of antiquities and computer history galore, VCF 7.0 will be hosting a unique Retro Video Game Programming Challenge and presenting a number of interesting seminar speakers, such as the inventor of FidoNet, Tom Jennings. The VCF founder will also be appearing on G4TechTV's "The Screen Savers" this Tuesday, October 19th, to demonstrate some of his favorite artifacts."

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Re:BBS's are alive and well out there by Erik+Hollensbe · 2004-10-17 21:52 · Score: 2, Insightful

BBS systems brought a sense of community that, well, the internet could only dream of having.

Most of my good friends that I still keep in contact with, I met in high school mostly through BBS systems.

As a result, meeting the people you chat with online has always been an odd pleasure of mine, just because I like to see who the other ghost-face is. More often than not, it's let me break social barriers that I might not have otherwise broken.

But it was never on Synchronet. Telegard hacks, baby.