Subj : Re: computers
To   : Spectre
From : Malvinas
Date : Wed Jul 17 2024 14:04:49

 Sp> Here a lot of BBS became early dialup ISPs.  I believe 90% of dialup BBS
 Sp> were gone by late 93, I forget a little, but it was every user just
 Sp> disappeared overnight.  One month there were users, next month, not a
 Sp> one.
 Sp> 

Why you think that happened?
I'm from Argentina, here BBSs lasted a while longer. I started connecting around 1997 and they were still taking calls up until maybe 1999 or even year 2000. Dial-up ISPs took a slow-burn while to catch up and gather people up.
Not because BBS' users would move over to ISPs. I'd say anyone that already had a computer and a dial-up modem in 1997 or 1998, going on BBSs wouldn't leave if they didn't have to. The thing was that the 'common public' took those years (1997-2000) to actually get a computer and try to connect to 'the new thing' which was the *www internet, and actually never got to know BBSs.
It was a 'slow bleed out' process here in Argentina, and for a while both means of connection co-existed... pretty much like right now. It was wild.

Malvinas

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

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