Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 03 2022 09:44:55

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: boraxman to StormTrooper on Tue May 03 2022 09:39 pm

 bo> I was using dial up BBS's up until about 1999, though it was around
 bo> 1995-1996 when they started to really decline.

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

I'm in the US, and that seems about the same here.
I started running my original BBS in 1994, and BBSes were still fairly active at that time.  The internet started to boom around 1995 or 1996 here, and it seemed that's when BBS usage started to decline (as you said).  I still ran my BBS until 2000 - By that time, my BBS was getting so few users that I didn't see much point in running it anymore.  I also figured there wasn't much point in running a BBS, and that people would probably just want to use the internet.

 bo> I finally moved away from
 bo> using a modem in 2007. 

For me, I stopped using a dialup modem in 2002.

Nightfox
--- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

.