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there are certainly pure dial-up BBSs still up
September 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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We could also retreat to semi abandon forms of proto internets, BBSs and Usenet posting! You can even pirate video games on Usenet!
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Drama on BBSs was arguing in slow motion. I'm going to call you a dick on Thurs and maybe you've responded by Saturday lol.
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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My experience dates back to those same years. When BBSs were the way to exchange a lot of software, usenet news groups were full of useful information before the web and IRC meant Internet Relay Chat which were the first live chat rooms of the internet.
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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For the history of BBSs in other countries, see e.g. the chapters "A Brief History of the Taiwenese Internet: The BBS Culture" by Liang, Yi-Ren, and Huang, and "Hi! Turkiye and Turkish BBS and Digital Cultures" by Furman, in this book: doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BBS #Taiwan #Turkey
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories | Gerard Goggin,
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions,
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I was using local BBSs even earlier, circa '81 or 82. My first modem was a classic 300-baud "acoustic coupler" with rubber cups for the telephone handset. Nowadays those are sold as collectors' items. Wish I'd kept mine as a nostalgic souvenir of those times.

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November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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GemStone IV - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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this makes me really miss GemStone IV, I really should appeal that ban.

Or learn how to make my own MUD or something.
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I love-hated Pascal. Turbo-Pascal was actually pretty cool.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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October 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I miss MSDOS… we didn’t know how good we had it
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM