Subj : How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : Bob Worm
From : nelgin
Date : Wed May 01 2024 09:51:58

  Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: Bob Worm to nelgin on Wed May 01 2024 14:01:36

 > Hmm - I vaguely remember them giving out Turnpike for a while but my
 > recollection is *very* hazy! Soon after I started going online everything
 > began to standardise so you didn't need weird custom stacks any more...

Not sure about that. Maybe that was after my time. I used Demon for a while in 1994/95 then I switched to Dircon. They seemed to be much after and had really good people. I was going to interview there for a job but I ended up moving to the US.

 > Was it an interesting tour? Maybe a couple of decades in telecoms has jaded
 > me but possibly the first couple of times seeing a modem rack would be a fun
 > time.

I saw cow.demon.net :)

Pretty neat to think it was a company that started out with 4 modems and leased line internet, if I remember.

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