Subj : Re: computers
To   : Utopian Galt
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Mon May 05 2025 07:07:00

-=> Utopian Galt wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 -=> JIMMY ANDERSON (21:2/127) wrote to Nightfox <=-

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

 UG> They started to die out when I graduated from high school in 1997.
 UG> People who started to go to college ended up killing off their bbses.
 UG> I was the only long term bbs in my area for another decade before i
 UG> stopped paying for the modem line.

That was when Facebook was college only, right? I wonder if that had
something to do with it too...


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