Subj : Rise and fall of BBSes
To   : Pbmountaincat
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 10:50 am

  Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
  By: Pbmountaincat to SAM ALEXANDER on Tue Sep 27 2005 12:04 am

 > 
 > SA>I will say that being back into BBSes these last two or so weeks has been
 > SA>really fun, and just the chat on Dovenet has kept my computer hobby
 > SA>interests sparked.  I don't have as much time to get online as I used to
 > SA>(getting married in less then 4 weeks), but I love this!  Once the weddin
 > SA>is over and I start having more time to 'nerd out' (as friends call it),
 > SA>I'll start working on the ANSI graphics, getting back into programming, a
 > SA>start jazzing-up the site -- but until then my site will be mainly stock 
 > SA>not very appealing to the newcomer.
 > 
 > Congratulations on your soon to be wedding.  Me and my wife have been
 > married 13 years.  We met in April, was married in September, same
 > year.
 > 
 > I hope to get my wife online reading the message boards.

Hi Phillip,

Thanks for the congrats :)  With the wedding planning, if we can survive 
this we can survive anything together.  hehe It's crazy!  Also my fiancee 
isn't a computer person by any means, but she knows her way around both 
Windows and OSX rather well plus she's done some web programming in the 
past.  I'd love for her to get involved in the BBS, but she's not much into 
online chat or discussions.  She knew about BBSes back in the day, but she 
never really cared to get 'online'.

One cool thing though.. my BBS computer is in the living room beside the 
couch, and each time it beeps she always wants me to pull out the laptop and 
see where the 'caller' is from.  It facinates the heck outta her that 
someone from Seattle, New York, and even Canada would take the time to 
connect to this little box in our living room and see what kinda stuff we 
have to offer.  Maybe over time she'll get into it, but it'll take some work 
:)

Sam

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