Subj : Re: computers To : All From : Nigel Reed Date : Tue Jul 16 2024 14:05:42 On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:25:54 -0700 "Nightfox" (21:1/137) wrote: > Re: computers > By: Newtype Len to rubberchicken on Mon Jul 15 2024 08:28 am > > NL> I grew up with dial-up in the 90s and 2000s, but never saw or > NL> used a BBS until last year. Using one now has changed my > NL> apprecation for using the Internet, and has changed my ideas on > NL> how to use it to communicate. > > When in the 90s did you start using dial-up? To me, I feel like > BBSing was where dial-up started. I got my first PC, along with a > modem, in 1992, and I started calling BBSes right away. I knew about > them because of my dad - The PC and modem were hand-me-down from my > dad, and he also gave me a copy of a local BBS list that was > available on many local BBSes at the time. There was also a local > free computer magazine here that you could get from many convenience > stores, the library, etc., which had a list of local BBSes in the > back. > > Nightfox > --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux > * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137) Would have been about 1986. I got a subscription to Prestel, a UK service that I've talked about before. One of their information providers, Micronet 800, was giving away a free modem for BBC, Spectrum and CBM64 users, and maybe a few more, if you subscribed to their service. From there I went exploring... -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 .