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I miss the old days of the local BBS!

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AaronP

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The internet, and internet message boards are all great, however it really doesn't have the same feel as the old BBS's had. Back in the early 90's me and my high school chums were BBS members and there really wasn't much of an Internet. My favorite BBS, made up entirely of people from my area was great, along with having lively message boards, we'd play games (Usurper was the best, Red Dragon was great too), share files, and every once in awhile, we'd get together for a picnic or a Star Wars role playing session. Sometimes we'd see each other at the local computer shop or comic book and baseball card store. And lets not forget the charm of having a 2400 baud modem and seeing the test crawl across the screen. When my friend scammed his way into like 10 9600 baud modems and gave them out to his pals, it was great, the speed increase was unreal!

As Archie Bunker and Edith sang, "THOSE WERE THE DAYS!"
 
well i guess i am a late bloomer. i came on a little bit later when the internet was catching on i guess. i remember signing onto a bbs though from reading some hacker.txt.
 
I hear that AaronP. Late night BBS-ing made me miss many school days. Remember the shoddy email systems back then? All the emails sent to a non-BBS member were rounded up and sent to another BBS higher up the chain, and kept going up until it reached the top and then filtered back down again. It would take 2-3 days to get emails to some people I knew 😀
 
I was born in 84....

Ahh, the year of THE GHOSTBUSTERS! Until the day I die, when someone mentions 1984, I will immediatly think of The Ghostbusters!
 
Heh.. I remember when we got our first modem for our Apple 2+, a Signalman Anchor 300baud unit.. My brother ran "The Darque Side of the Moon" bbs/AE line off that thing for a while back in the '80s, until we upgraded to a 1200baud modem and switched from 5 1/4 floppies to a whopping 10MB harddrive.

AE lines were fun. Old skool warez and who could forget Text Files... Here's a fun link...
 
My local BBS was called "the Rancid Bison" . . . there was a porno game called "Studs" on it. You were a man-whore who went around getting business. Interesting graphics. The guy who ran it had a three disk changer CD-ROM. It is the only one that I have ever heard of.
 
i recently started playing the BRE games at

telnet fame.darktech.org

Just like back in highschool in the early 90's 🙂

 
Hey, I was born in '84 and I was deep into BBSes. As cool as forums like this are, I don't know if they can really come close to good old BBSes.
 
Ah, the local BBS scene. Lets see, my 14.4 xfer'd over a gig a month, I was on all the local boards that didn't have an active Foodfight or message system and where NUV was key. Mentioning my name as a ref would get you onto a board, but if you didn't have a good enough ratio, you were useless. If anyone knows some of the vision and oblivion clones, chime in (I was more a fan of the heavily modded WWiV 4.22/4.23 code, it was 10x as fun compared to the vision clones).

Now those were the days.
 
Those were the days 😀

I had a ball of fun with countless BBS Doors ... LORD, TradeWars, BRE are just a few that instantly come to mind.

As for WWIV ... I absolutely hated that PoS. ViSiON-X looked good but underneath was a POS. PCBored drove me up a creek. Wildcat! was my favorite 🙂
 
dang... i really miss playing those bbs games. LORD was fun but does anyone remember playing a game called Exitilus (I'm not sure if the spelling is correct)? man, i really miss that game...those were the days...you'd take your turn and dial in the next day and hopefully not get killed while you were "asleep".

the only other games i could remember was one called "pimp wars" (lotsa fun) and some othe'm gonnr football game.

dang i'm gonna go search and see if anyone has those games active...
 
Nice Thread.

I had an Commodore 128. Running...umm, what the hell was it...WWIII software I think it was. Its a blur between the early PC and Commodore in those early years.

One moment stuck in my mind - when someone had finally written a program to decode .gif files for the commodore. It was big in the "community", which must have consisted of about central Jersey?

Wow. I've been really swimming in nostalgia as of late. I was looking though old slides. People, when will we finally build a time machine, cause I wann go back to being a kid.
 
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