Missing the BBS days

[beatmix01]

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I miss the good ole days of the BBS. All command line. No fluff. Ah those were the days.

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[RossMAN]

I remember relentlessly dialing in to a 4 line BBS for 1.5 hours until connecting.

The memories 🙂

 

[SynthDude2001]

I remember being angry because a BBS that I frequented had a one-hour timelimit, which wasn't long enough for me to download a 1MB file. 😛

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

Yeah.. I caught the end of that hellish existance. 😀

 

[beatmix01]

Oh and my lightning fast 2400 baud modem... That thing rocked!

 

[MichaelD]

For a second, I thought you meant BBS rims. 😱

 

[meltdown75]

I used to run one on my C=64. Very very good times. "9th Nebula" 😀 Anyone else run DS2 v2 BBSs back in the day? We used to have flame wars against the guys that used the Image software. ah, memories.

My nick back then was "Daredevil" or "DD" (comic book). heh

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: beatmix01
Oh and my lightning fast 2400 baud modem... That thing rocked!

my first modem was 300 baud!

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I remember being angry because a BBS that I frequented had a one-hour timelimit, which wasn't long enough for me to download a 1MB file. 😛

LOL...i dont stretch quite that far back...i didnt get online until i got my cyrix pr133 with a 14.4 modem 😀

had a 80286 but never got online with it

 

[Slaimus]

I remember dialing up to Epic's BBS where u can play One Must Fall 2097 (and Tyrian as well, but co-op is no fun) against other players. The number was local too, so I used to be on a lot before they shut it down.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: tangent1138

Originally posted by: beatmix01
Oh and my lightning fast 2400 baud modem... That thing rocked!

my first modem was 300 baud!

300 baud was fun, you could read messages with no problem as they downloaded.

 

[fs5]

BRE, LORD, SRE.
you can still play those online, there are many telnet bbs up.
http://www.dmine.com/telnet/

 

[MustISO]

I had ye old 300 baud and then the super fast 1200 baud modems. I used to have a notebook with all my BBS numbers in it. I remember actually having to wait a few hours before the download was finished. Who knows how large those files were, probably 600K.

 

[Nohr]

I remember BBSing on my 286 with a 2400 baud modem. It downloaded exactly 1KB every 4 seconds.

Some door game screenies I took:

LORD
ANSI intros: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Title Menu
Town Square

Falcon's Eye

Planets: TEOS

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Nohr
I remember BBSing on my 286 with a 2400 baud modem. It downloaded exactly 1KB every 4 seconds.

I remember that - I used to count the seconds between the kilobytes. :laugh:

 

[beatmix01]

I also remember constantly changing the transmit protocols between Kermit and the likes.... Kermit always worked the fastest for me.

 

[aircooled]

ahh, my C-64 w/ 300 baud rate modem was so cool

 

[redly]

I miss the days of having to steal my friends dad's penthouse magazine to see pron

 

[dman]

Me too.