On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:26:08 -0800, Gary VanderMolen wrote:
>They were called Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's). Typically you'd dial directly
>into one, connect at 300 baud, search the online files for something
>interesting, and then download it. This was before the Internet and WWW.
I ran the Legal Eagle way back when.... part of FidoNet. It was a lot of fun.
In my
rurual area we had something like 12 BBSs when it was most popular. I still have
the 256 PC which ran things for me.
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cheers, Stephen
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