12-20-2007, 11:22 PM | #1 |
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Any ex-BBS users here?
Anyone here remember the days of Bulletin Board Systems aka BBS. I remember the days when I had to dial and redial on a modem just to connect online. Believe or not, I used to spend 6-10 or more hours just to connect to the Internet - this was in 1993.
The Internet back then was for the ELITE, it was expensive and they charged you by the hour. One hour would cost like 5-10 dollars. Then, there was a monthly fee too like 20-30 dollars. Luckily, there were tons of free online services and I truly enjoyed them. Back then, there was NO SPAM, all the users were intelligent, a lack a women though, I remember BBS services where there were over 1000 users and there were only like 3 users that are woman. Those were the memorable days, I thought I was so special. BTW, I was one of the first people in the world to use online chat back in 1988. I have a friend who invented text base chatting, it was called GTalk, short for Ginsu Talk and it was noted as the world's first multichannel online chat systems. |
12-21-2007, 12:17 AM | #2 |
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I used them to download files back in the early '90s. That was when Wolfenstein 3D was new. Then later came Spear of Destiny. Then Doom.
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12-21-2007, 12:37 AM | #3 |
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I remember Wolfenstein 3D. It is amazing that you can run that on a 286 which is probably the same power as today's black and white text based cell phones.
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12-21-2007, 08:50 AM | #4 |
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Used BBS briefly, but barely remember much of it cos shortly thereafter the Internet gained popularity.
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12-22-2007, 11:29 PM | #6 |
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I ran one back in the day... great memories!
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12-25-2007, 11:17 AM | #7 |
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yep, definitely remember the days of 28.8 kbps modems and BBS boards - my dad and I were just learning about the internet back then but yeah good days
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12-27-2007, 09:36 PM | #8 |
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used to log onto BBS's back in the early 90's too. My older brother would bring home a "computer" newspaper from work with a bunch of BBS #'s on the back page and i would spend hours upon hours dialing them. Once you would get onto one, i loved the ASCII graphics that would come up! haha
then AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve started giving away a few free hours on online service and i steered away from the BBS's..... Ahh, the memories! Wolfenstien 3D on my Gateway 2000! |
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12-27-2007, 11:27 PM | #9 |
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Hehe...
I went on BBS's to d/l programs and play BRE! I can remember the days when I use to log on to a local freenet to use the internet. It wasn't a GUI, but I was able to send emails and download "photos".
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Started off with BBS in 1993 with a 28.8K internal modem (state of the art at that time). I was in Hong Kong and was in 8th grade. I used the MSN service a little bit when Win95 came out. Finally migrated to the internet in fall 1995. The monthly charge was around 15USD at that time with hourly charge of around a buck.
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Neurorad, you're a mega nerd. You started online chattin' in 1980 huh? I started online chattin' in the late 80's while logging onto Diversi-Dial aka D-Dial online boards. It just blew me away, and I thought I was so cool. Back then, I didn't really care about real life... I would ask other chatters, when was that last time you talked to someone in real life and the time. Then, I started using STS online BBS systems which I thought was the coolest thing around. Honestly, STS aka Synergy Teleconferencing System was the coolest thing because up to 16 users can chat at a time, and ANSI and ASCII graphics were so trendy back then.
AHHHH!!!!! I spent like 3 days doodling around to get this ASCII pic. |
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I ran a BBS in the early 80's in the Bay Area (Horizon) on a 300 baud modem on a trs80 model 1 computer with 2-3 double sided 80 track drives writing on 84 tracks to get the most data out of a disk. I also had online chat working way before '88. Was a real fun time then. Gary |
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02-01-2008, 10:25 AM | #18 |
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Speaking of ASCII - Star Wars ASCIIMATION:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ Star Wars animated with ASCII! |
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I'm a current BBS user!
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02-01-2008, 02:40 PM | #20 |
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Your comment is off topic!
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02-01-2008, 04:11 PM | #21 |
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You guys are all a bunch of newbies (except Neurorad)!
I used a 1200-baud modem from my dad's work when anyone else I knew ran at 300... that was a hot piece. Most boards were 300, a handful of 1200 and the odd well-financed business-oriented board would do 2400...except nobody actually had a 2400 baud modem. Ran my own board for a few years in the late 80's, got into the Fidonet thing for a few years, screwed around with front-end mailers, echomail and netmail.... and then watched them become slowly replaced by newsgroups and forums. Ain't progress grand? |
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02-01-2008, 05:21 PM | #22 |
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Hmmmm... it seems like no one used a genuine online chat system back in the 80's. I'm not talking about 2-3 user chat systems on standard BBS's where you chat with the sysop, but multiuser chat systems where the main purpose of the board was just for online chattin. I swear, I was one of the first people in the world to use it and I buddy of mine was the one of the world's first people in the world to design it, it was called GinsuTalk, we called it GTalk back then.
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