Ah, the memories :) I remember setting up Fraser’s first BBS for our customers to call into and get drivers, oh the memories of being a sysop! The feeling of watching the people call in and seeing where they went was addictive.
I also remember calling a fair number of the larger UK & US sites, goodness knows what the charges were :) I think I may well have had one on a family and friends number! I cant remember the name of that BBS, I think Blow went there too?
Just looking at some screenshots of the old BBS software has made me all reminiscent of those days.
I remember Rusty & Edie’s BBS and had no idea that they were raided back then.
I read all about BBS and stuff today on wikipedia and I suddenly realised how early I got into this online shanegans. It’s changed, but not that much ;)
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aww man - a flood of old memories….
Damnit I can’t remember the name of the BBS we used to use either…
Flashbacks I’ve just had include:
1. Testing Soops BBS he set up and discussing wild ideas about our own BBS (lucky we didn’t do it as compuserve eploded in popularity a year later). I seem to remember some bubble font text art we did for the loading screen.
2. Dialling a BBS in the states to get a file at £5 per minute.
3. Waiting 10 minutes for a 320×200 porn pic to download.
I’m sure I’ve got all this stuff somewhere…
If youkept it I would love to have a butch at all the old stuff.
Great memories :)
I remember the ascii art we did too! TheDraw experts we were ;)
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