Subj : Re: computers
To   : Nightfox
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sat May 03 2025 22:44:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Malvinas <=-

 Ma> Yea, my reply was about that other guy saying that pretty much 'over
 Ma> night', users vaporized into thin air... I thought not seeing that happen
 Ma> here might've been a 'regional' thing... you say it was pretty similar in
 Ma> the US too...

 Ni> Yeah..  I was surprised he also said he thought about 90% of BBSes had
 Ni> disappeared in 1993, which seems pretty early to me.  The BBS scene was
 Ni> still fairly big here, I think until about 1997 or so when I noticed
 Ni> users started to dwindle fairly fast.  I didn't even know about the
 Ni> internet in 1993, and I'm not entirely sure how many people did.

Here, when we moved from Jackson to Memphis, there were still 
SEVERAL BBS's running! I paid for a dial up shell account to
use for telnet and such, before we migrated to AOL for 'the 
web.' But even then BBS's were still popular. This was 93-94
or so. 



.... Heisenberg may have slept here.
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