Subj : How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : Nightfox
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Apr 02 2024 09:50:41

  Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: Nightfox to Bob Worm on Mon Apr 01 2024 14:45:31

Hi, Nightfox.

 > I only called local BBSes, so it didn't add anything to the phone bill.
 > Luckily, there were quite a lot of local BBSes in my area back then.

Yeah, we didn't have free local calls in the UK... I suppose we still don't, most providers do unlimited calling bundles now but they're nationwide.

I was lucky enough to be in a town that somehow inherited an area code from the neighbouring capital city, so at least a good chunk of stuff counted as local. I seem to remember there was some not-local-but-not-long-distance setup between London and a few other key cities that I could piggyback onto. It was all by the minute, though :(

BobW
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