Subj : Network Shuffle
To   : Warpslide
From : Tiny
Date : Mon Jul 26 2021 07:01:29

-=> Warpslide wrote to August Abolins <=-

 Wa> When I signed up to ICQ I had a 5 digit ICQ number but then ended up
 Wa> forgetting my password to it, when I signed back up I was issued a 6
 Wa> digit number, which was kind of a bummer.

I /think/ mine was 3231258.

 Wa> You know, I worked in a computer store and never thought to try and
 Wa> advertise there.  I don't really remember how I first came to learn
 Wa> about BBS's though, just that the first board I dialed into was Prime
 Wa> Time BBS in Gravenhurst, Ontario which was a multi-line PCBoard BBS.

The computer store in town here always had a list of BBSes.  One of the
first I called was "The Red Baron BBS".

 Wa> could dial a local number to a town in between the two, listen to a
 Wa> short advertisement and then get a dialtone to call into Huntsville as
 Wa> a local call.

I used to have a phone in my friends house in Ajax that would foward me to
the ISP in Toronto.  That's how I initially brought the internet to my BBS.
First UUCP, then a dedicated connection at 33.6, and after that ISDN.  By
that point I had switched to running the ISP and sold it shortly after that.

 Wa> It was in the latter stage of BBS'ing when my family got London Telecom
 Wa> and I was able to dial long distance BBS's more often, one of my
 Wa> favourites was run by a nice fellow named Shawn Highfield... ;)

Thanks man. ;)

Shawn

.... Let no good deed go unpunished.

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