Subj : Re: ANSI art
To   : multiplemiggs
From : fusion
Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 14:34:00

On 25 Oct 2025, multiplemiggs said the following...
 
 mu> On 17 Jul 2025, Dumas Walker said the following...
 mu>  DW> What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the growing
 mu>  DW> availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the users were
 mu>  DW> running linux or Windows or ???.
 mu>  DW> 
 mu> 
 mu> I experienced the same thing with CB radio. There was a group of
 mu> probably 30 of us within range at any given time. When the internet took
 mu> off that group shrank fast to a point where there were hardy any regular
 mu> users 1997-98

yeah a lot of those people went to irc. or they went to AOL (AIM), webtv chat, or that weird "internet cb" thing, or any number of other places.. they're all just on facebook now. sad really. community is dead i guess.

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