Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : Dr. What
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Jul 12 2022 16:11:00

Sorry Doc, this is really just a general reply... but being what it is, I
can't reply and change who its going to. :)

Here in Melbourne, Australia, we had super high density of BBS'.  There were
two really popular multiline boards followed by hundreds of others. Given the
volume of systems, and their users we had meets fairly frequently, at one
stage you virtually get yourself online and ask what was going on this
weekend.

Locations varied wildly, from City Square, an open park area in the middle of
the CBD.  Pool halls, Charltons.. also in the CBD... to open park areas in
the suburbs, ice skating rinks, the Valhalla Cinema a low tech setup where
initially you even had to take your own chairs and the whole way along you
could get in free dressing up for the showing movie and act out parts in
front of the screen. (Blues Brothers was terribly popular).  Even the odd
ones at someones place, these varied wildly in size and facilities depending
on the pockets of the parents.  Some were really basic, some were really up
market.

By about 1993-4 pretty much every bbs had some kind of connect to the
"internet" being usenet for the most part. And the whole thing collapsed not
long after as commercial access really took off sealing the fate of local
systems.  They just about disappeared overnight.

At this point, I couldn't count how many I attended, only that the more
interesting ones stand out in mind.  I don't have a lot of regrets from the
time, but I could probably had done with being a bit more mature at the time.

Spec


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