Subj : Re: computers
To   : TheNerd
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jul 25 2024 09:47:47

  Re: Re: computers
  By: TheNerd to Spectre on Thu Jul 25 2024 10:38 am

 Th> I was in my last year of high school in 1993.  The boards in my area were
 Th> still going strong. about a year later I became a FidoNet Hub and the BBS
 Th> ran for a good 10 years (dialup, then web based around 2001) longer before
 Th> life made me shut down.  By 2003 things where really slowing down on the
 Th> Dialup scene but when we transitioned to a web board it kept going for a
 Th> while.

:)  I just started high school in 1994, which was also the same year I started running my own BBS.  I really enjoyed running my BBS in those days.  I took my BBS down in 2000, as (from what I remember) it wasn't getting many callers at all anymore, maybe 1-2 in a day (though not always every day).  I thought BBSing was pretty much dead, but in 2007 I learned there were still some BBSes around and on the internet, and I set up my current BBS and have been running it since then.

I feel it's ironic that I've been running my current BBS longer than my original BBS in the 90s.

Nightfox
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