The good 'ol days. I was on only Dallas based BBS's. The Dog House and Funny Farm were my two. We had a lot of good times on thos boards. Even threw a few BBS parties.
You are right about the 'magic' of the BBSes back then, used to dial in and play one of those doors games (the name is lost to time) after school with my best friend when a kid. Also being able to download stuff like the Doom shareware and user levels from the download section was amazing too. That was the early-mid 90s so the real internet wasn't very widespread yet.
Used to be a lot of fun in the early 90's for me as a kid touring different BBS's using the listings in the back of a copy of that month's Computer Shopper.
I used to log in to Lunatic Labs, somewhere in Los Angeles. Young people today will never understand the pain of endless busy signals-sometimes for weeks. But the pure excitement of hearing the phone ring and the handshake begin? That was a total rush. Simpler times.
Very cool video! I love hearing about this era of computing. was born in the early 90s, so the web was already a thing when I was old enough to understand. Thank you for sharing!
That power strip though....Yer office wasn't complete without it.
The good 'ol days. I was on only Dallas based BBS's. The Dog House and Funny Farm were my two.
We had a lot of good times on thos boards. Even threw a few BBS parties.
You are right about the 'magic' of the BBSes back then, used to dial in and play one of those doors games (the name is lost to time) after school with my best friend when a kid. Also being able to download stuff like the Doom shareware and user levels from the download section was amazing too. That was the early-mid 90s so the real internet wasn't very widespread yet.
Terminate is such an awesome DOS terminal program
What about AE on the Apple // computers?
Used to be a lot of fun in the early 90's for me as a kid touring different BBS's using the listings in the back of a copy of that month's Computer Shopper.
Love it! Good stuff. Many hours were spent racking up high phone bills on BBSs when I was a kid. Thanks for uploading.
High phone bills? you didn't know about phone phreaking?
I used to log in to Lunatic Labs, somewhere in Los Angeles. Young people today will never understand the pain of endless busy signals-sometimes for weeks. But the pure excitement of hearing the phone ring and the handshake begin? That was a total rush. Simpler times.
or the terror of "Hello??" of a wrong/bad number..
Very cool video! I love hearing about this era of computing. was born in the early 90s, so the web was already a thing when I was old enough to understand. Thank you for sharing!
No Problem. I really like this AST 486 I've got and hope to do a few more videos with it.
Had a renegade board. Setup a business called BoardTech to sell BBS's. Only sold 1 before realising the internet was going to take over.
I used to use BBS's around the San Antonio area in the mid 1980's. Used my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem, lol.
Very cool!
Remember to add *68,, to your dialing string prefix to disable call waiting!
Now I'm off to play TradeWars
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