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Subject: Hello OT: online nostalgia: direct-dail BBS days

Date: Sat 17/06/06 17:17:07 GMT

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I go back even further than newsgroups.  Does anyone remember direct dial BBSs?  Back in the late 80's/early 90's (some people used them in the early 80's even) people ran BBS programs on their own computers.  A BBS had it's own phone number, and other computers would call BBSs with a "comm term" program.  Of course BBss were a local thing, unless a person wanted to pay huge long distance bills.  I had a Commodore 64 back then.  My screen name then was my old screen name when I started using this forum: Whammy.  Some BBSs had "war bases" where users conducted flame wars (called just "wars" back then).  And if you think dial-up is slow today at 36000, try 1200!  Some people had only 300!  then along came 2400 and the "unbelievably fast" 9600!  Of course speed wasn't as important with ASCII text instead of pictures (ASCII, does anyone remember what that is? It was the number codes for letters.  Different computer types had their own systems to also include graphics; PETASCII for Commodore, ATASCII for Atari, and ANSI for IBM (yes, PC's were called IBMs or IBM compatible back then!)).  Ah, the memories!  From August 1990-March 1992 I was cosysop (same thing as an assistant webmaster) of a BBS here in Bakersfield called Brigade HQ.  Rod, did you ever call that board?  Ever use The Black Hole, The Roof Top, The Clinic, Inverse Reality, The Country Chapel, Night Gallery, or The Surf Board?  On a sorta on-topic note, the phone number for The Surf Board was 589-WET1.   Bakersfield BBS users even had a monthly meeting at Pizza Hut called "faces behind the CRT".  I could go on for a long time reminiscing about the good old days!
In reply to Message (23063.7) Hello Nostalgia aint what it used to be :(

By JW - gb Sat 17/06/06 16:36:27 GMT

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I remember news groups - non stop flame wars, the biggest change I've seen over the years is that all the posters have gone comercial.
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By Andrew - pl Sat 17/06/06 13:30:27 GMT

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I've been on this forum since 1998 (back then it was on Bravenet, then Nigel made a new one for us) and I must say I don't like the way the Internet is going based on this forum. The number of contributores has increased, but not much. Many of the old ones where offended to many times and left. I always was a looker, contributed only a few times, with just a few of my own sets and some finds. But I NEVER posted negative comments and I can't understand why people here are so mean. Even the best photos get less then 10 (and usually only 2-3) positive comments. But negative comments, against rule 4.2 can be found on every page of the archive in large numbers, though Nigel despite his jobs tries to delete them. I mean people, hit yourselfs in those dumb heads before flaming someone! People like different things and diversity is important and keeps this forum going. So the next time when one of you wants to post some of the following... turn of your PC instead and go to a fountain, make some photos, put them up on Webshots, post the link instead. It can easily be done everywhere in the world, with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia, so it's really hard to find an excuse not to ;-P

 

PLEASE stop posting the following - goes especially to Anonymouses or half-Anonymouses:

 

-> "bad quality" posts

-> "boring" posts

-> "not my kind of clothes" posts

-> "fat girl / whale" posts

-> "i think they are underage" posts - because in 90% of the accusations they are not

-> "this is porn" posts - because in 90% of the accusations it is not

-> whining about sponsors posts

etc.

 

This forum has more then 2000 users and only some 50 contributors among them. And many more flammers. Get a grip people. The net IS NOT THE place to let your frustration run with you. If you don't like a post, just DON'T POST ANYTHING.

 

I know I can't bring back the atmosphere of the end-of-the-90s mostly free and happy-go-lucky Internet, but still, if this post stops one troll from posting a negative comment I still think it's worth it.

 

Andrew.


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