 OT: Do people still use DOS based BBS's, What about ALT.newsgroup or whatever |
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| Mueller |
 Apr 28 2005, 01:32 PM
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Never really understood what the heck these things are compared to the internet I know with webpages and all that fancy graphics
where the BBSs and alt.newsgroups or alt.whatever the only way to communicate before html or windoz or ??? tried to look it up, but just got confused (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) |
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| Rand |
Apr 28 2005, 01:54 PM
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Ah yes... takes me back to the 80s... the screeching of the modems, the zipping and sending of the messages overnight... People would dial the local BBS with their 300 baud modem (my first 2400 baud modem cost $500 when it first hit the market!), add their replies/messages, and that night the "sysop" would zip them up (or have a batch file that would automate it) and upload it to another system in the heierarchy... by the next morning the rest of the BBSs in the network would have the new text messages online. Forget photos, rich text, colors, smilies... it was plain text. :-)
I'm so glad technology has evolved. Now we see replies with photos and smilies in minutes. |
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Mueller OT: Do people still use DOS based BBS's Apr 28 2005, 01:32 PM
Brad Roberts You REALLY dont have anything better to do ?
B Apr 28 2005, 01:35 PM john rogers Newsgroups is where the "real internet" is. There ... Apr 28 2005, 01:44 PM bondo I used to call in to BBSs with my Amiga. 2400 Bps ... Apr 28 2005, 01:49 PM tat2dphreak alt.binaries.??? you name it, the newsgroups had i... Apr 28 2005, 02:28 PM john rogers The last time I checked, newsgroups were not monit... Apr 28 2005, 02:40 PM Rand The OpenNAP network has tons of terrabytes of ever... Apr 28 2005, 02:42 PM lapuwali In the beginning, there were many unconnected "net... Apr 28 2005, 02:53 PM Gint Those were the good old days... THE place to get ... Apr 28 2005, 05:17 PM mikey Mozilla and Firefox have good built in newsreaders... Apr 28 2005, 06:52 PM yarin Ahhh.. those were the days.
I was the only 11 yea... Apr 28 2005, 07:00 PM 914GT ... Apr 28 2005, 07:30 PM lapuwali Apr 28 2005, 08:11 PM 914GT I was long gone by the 80s so I don't know wha... Apr 28 2005, 08:53 PM Qarl I was a member of several boards on my 386sx-20. ... Apr 28 2005, 08:57 PM 914GT I just checked and there are four newsgroups for P... Apr 28 2005, 09:13 PM
jkeyzer Newsgroups are very much alive and well because as... Apr 28 2005, 09:48 PM |
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