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  • First Time Using a BBS...

    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to hollowone on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 08:34:15
    Re: First Time Using a BBS...
    By: hollowone to Android8675 on Mon Sep 21 2020 09:25 pm

    This is exactly how I find BBSing today. I missed it back in the days as I was too young to still see it anyhow valid.

    But I remember internet from 95+ with usenet, irc, muds and being elite all there just if you could access these services from unix/linux shell with proper toolset to proove that you actually *know* how to use the internet, not MIRCing around and being constantly "nuked" if on Windows 95.

    Those were the days where I was dialing in to the internet to download all

    BBSes were still around that you could dial into in 1995.
    I had just started running my own dialup BBS in 1994 and ran it until 2000..

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to hollowone on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 07:32:00
    hollowone wrote to Android8675 <=-

    But I remember internet from 95+ with usenet, irc, muds and being elite all there just if you could access these services from unix/linux shell with proper toolset to proove that you actually *know* how to use the internet, not MIRCing around and being constantly "nuked" if on Windows 95.

    It was a lot of fun, before search engines. The net was like a
    treasure hunt.

    Internet was also all about files and simple hypertext focused on
    manuals, simply speaking knowledge. I was downloading knowledge... or
    of course warez.

    Sounds exactly like BBSing in the '90s.










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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Nightfox on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 20:01:00
    Re: First Time Using a BBS...
    By: Nightfox to hollowone on Tue Sep 22 2020 08:34 am

    Re: First Time Using a BBS...
    By: hollowone to Android8675 on Mon Sep 21 2020 09:25 pm

    This is exactly how I find BBSing today. I missed it back in the days a was too young to still see it anyhow valid.

    But I remember internet from 95+ with usenet, irc, muds and being elite all there just if you could access these services from unix/linux shell with proper toolset to proove that you actually *know* how to use the internet, not MIRCing around and being constantly "nuked" if on Windows 95.

    Those were the days where I was dialing in to the internet to download

    BBSes were still around that you could dial into in 1995.
    I had just started running my own dialup BBS in 1994 and ran it until 2000..

    Nightfox

    I was using BBS' from 1990 up to 1997 before finding an ISP with a local
    dialup number. Before then I'd call Juno to get email with their dialup software

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