On 04/28/17, Jessrond said the following...

I'm Jesse Radin and I'm here to say that I want to reunite the armies of BBS land.

Aye. I will be the first to join your cause!

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On Tuesday, April 24th HusTler muttered...

I'm Jesse Radin and I'm here to say that I want to reunite the armies of BBS land.

Aye. I will be the first to join your cause!

Trying to do my part! X

I've actually seen some new blood show up on my board - people that missed the era, but have found their way to boards. Very cool!


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I grew up when the internet was first being widely used and I would browse on my dad's computer that was running win 95 and using the netscape browser. Of course, it wasn't anything near what it is today.

I am going on 28, so you could say that I am one of those new bloods. My dad wa big into BBSs back in his high school days with his C64. I just started researching and getting into BBSs and I think they are very cool and interesting.

It is great to see the BBS community still thriving and with pop
culture's growing interest in retro things, I think that more people will gain interest in BBSs. I feel that it might need to be advertised a little more to gain more people my age as I don't think many people who grew up after BBSs know what they are.

One last Note: When I called my father last week, he said that he was talking about BBSs with the IT guy in his department who still has a dial-up modem, saying something along the lines and half heartedly, "when the internet goes down, I will still be able to access BBSs."

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Re: Hi
By: SwordofKas to NuSkooler on Tue Jun 19 2018 06:18 pm

One last Note: When I called my father last week, he said that he was talking about BBSs with the IT guy in his department who still has a dial-up modem, saying something along the lines and half heartedly, "when the internet goes down, I will still be able to access BBSs."

Perhaps his comment was half-hearted because there aren't many dial-up BBSes around to connect to anymore. In any given area, there are probably 0 dial-up BBSes available.. I've heard of a few sysops setting up dialup lines for their BBS these days, but I think BBSes these days are mostly on telnet. For an old-school feel these days, I suppose you could use a dialup internet service and then connect to BBSes via telnet. Or if your telnet client can play sounds when connecting to a BBS, perhaps it could be configured to play a sound of a modem dialing and connecting.

Nightfox

-=[ On 06-19-18 18:18, SwordofKas wrote to NuSkooler below: ]=-
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Hi SwordofKas!

I grew up when the internet was first being widely used and I would
browse on my dad's computer that was running win 95 and using the
netscape browser. Of course, it wasn't anything near what it is today.

I remember those days too. Much of what the young people enjoy today I experienced with BBS. I was a SysOp at one point many moons ago. It was very fun and had made many friends. There was this one board that had like 10 lines or so that required you to subscribe to have access to many of the advanced features and I would call in and chat with the other lines... the things that your father can tell you and he might know what IRC is :)

Good to see you here and I hope that you enjoy your stay looking through what it was like for us to network before the internet took off :)

Cheers,
Bryan
bhandfield(at)me(dot)com

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I am going on 28, so you could say that I am one of those new bloods. My

Hey, I'm a new blood too; I'm 26. So you're not alone.

It is great to see the BBS community still thriving and with pop
culture's growing interest in retro things, I think that more people
will gain interest in BBSs. I feel that it might need to be advertised a little more to gain more people my age as I don't think many people who grew up after BBSs know what they are.

It is very heartwarming, isn't it? :) I'm not going to overly politicize
this, but I think the massive upsurge in retail nostalgia can be attributed
to the fact that, hey, we've fallen on hard times. And when that happens, you tend to look back on a simpler time. I really would like to see more people
our age on here. I don't know about advertising, though, because the whole point of that is to try and sell you the latest and greatest technology. I think word of mouth would be the way to go here. But that's just my opinion. :)

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Re: Hi
By: Toadster to SwordofKas on Mon Oct 01 2018 12:17 am

Hey, I'm a new blood too; I'm 26. So you're not alone.

27 here. Our age group might be the youngest to remember original BBSs. One of my first computer memories is sitting next to my Mom while she looked for games to download for me from BBSs. I couldn't even read but I could tell by the colors and layout of the text when she was at the files. Seeing that was my cue to start a nonstop assault of "Found anything yet?"
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27 here. Our age group might be the youngest to remember original BBSs. One of my first computer memories is sitting next to my Mom while she looked for games to download for me from BBSs. I couldn't even read but
I could tell by the colors and layout of the text when she was at the files. Seeing that was my cue to start a nonstop assault of "Found anything yet?" --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32
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I thought I was young to get into BBS's. :) I got involved in the early/mid 90's as a teen.

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Re: Hi
By: niter3 to Mr. Robot on Tue Oct 30 2018 01:18 pm

I thought I was young to get into BBS's. :) I got involved in the early/mid 90's as a teen.

I never used one back then, it was all just seeing my parents using them. I'd say it had to be 94 or 95 because I couldn't read well enough to understand anything. I could read by the time I started school in 96, but I only have memories of the Internet from then.
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