Subj : How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : Nightfox
From : nelgin
Date : Thu Mar 28 2024 10:39:18

  Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: Nightfox to nelgin on Wed Mar 27 2024 12:54:50

 > (after around 10:00PM).  I thought it was really cool that you could have
 > your computer connect to someone else's computer remotely over the phone
 > line..

I think that's what fascinated me about it, too. All that stuff out there you could do over the phone. I wish I had found the internet sooner. I found out about it playing a MUD and was told about Demon Internet, a UK provider that offered dialup with static IP for "10 quid a month". It was a fantasic deal, if you could get into their modems.

 > A couple years later, my parents agreed to get a second phone line for my
 > computer that I could use any time and not worry about tying up the main
 > phone line or having my modem answer the phone.  I pretty much immediately
 > set up my own BBS, which I enjoyed running, and it also made good use of
 > that phone line.

Yeah, I had a separate line for my BBS too, but it didn't last long since I moved out of my parents house. I did leave the BBS running for a time but I wanted my computer.

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