Subj : Re: Computers
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Thu Jul 18 2024 08:08:00

³ Yeah..  I was surprised he also said he thought about 90% of BBSes had
³ disappeared in 1993, which seems pretty early to me.  The BBS scene was still
³ fairly big here, I think until about 1997 or so when I noticed users started to
³ dwindle fairly fast.  I didn't even know about the internet in 1993, and I'm
³ not entirely sure how many people did.
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The could have in his area.  In the area I was in during 1993-7, I cannot
say what percentage disappeared, but a bunch did.  OTOH, there were still
plenty of callers to go around for those of us who were still online.
 
In late 1997 I moved from a large metro area to a much smaller area that
was a long distance call from any metro area.  Here, I don't think most
folks had home computers at the time, and didn't start getting them until
they wanted to get on the internet.  BBSing was a foreign concept, and
something that only "hackers" did.
 
I might go a few weeks without callers.  That changed several years later
once I got non-dial-up internet and was able to add telnet.  I have not had
a "local" caller in several years.
 
So it is difficult for me to say for sure when callers significantly
dropped because, in my case, my observations are not accurate.
 
Mike
 
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