Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Tue May 03 2022 21:39:29

 St>  UG> I was one of the last dialup bbs in my area code. Then I went dsl in
 St>  UG> 2002.
 St> 
 St> You guys lasted longer than us. By ~93/94 it was all over here... dialins
 St> virtually went to 0 in a matter of a couple of months. By 2000 we would
 St> have had a pretty good shaking out of ISPs as well most of the BBS level
 St> guys had merged into bigger dialup installations, and ADSL/Cable were
 St> putting the kibosh on those too.
 St> 
 St> ST

I was using dial up BBS's up until about 1999, though it was around 1995-1996 when they started to really decline.  I finally moved away from using a modem in 2007.

I'm in Australia, so it seems they kept going here for a little longer.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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