Social Media's Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
reddit / bbs

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ShooterJennings · 2016-10-26 19:08

I love the ANSI's in here. So 'first generation'. I still get a crazy
sense of nostalgia around Christmas.

As cheezy as the local BBSes were in my area, I just remember dialing
in to see what was new and going on locally.

I remember being so pumped on Christmas break that I would be able to
work on my BBS and check in with my favorite local BBSes, play some
ImagiNation network or DOOM 2 or Tie Fighter. But i'd spend most of my
time re-skinning my BBS.

Something about the Christmas ANSI's that would go up take me right
back to this. Same with the ANSI's in this article.

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KayJustKay · 2016-10-27 09:52

FYI the site this links to is pure design cancer. I thought I was on
one of those shitty media aggregate sites at first. Good article but
what the hell is with the other article adds taking up ~70% of the
page?

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ShooterJennings · 2016-10-27 23:35

Looks fine on mine? Android.

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nolageek · 2016-10-28 03:48

I love seeing these types of articles, but man it bugs me when they
fail to mention that there are some boards still around that their
readers can 'call' via telnet or various web interfaces.

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antdude · 2016-11-12 21:54

It's almost Christmas again!

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samalex01 · 2016-12-05 01:47

Nice article.  And agreed much of what I see online now with social
media we did with BBSes 20+ years ago.  Crazy thing is I'd give-up the
Internet as it is now for BBSes as they were any day.