Cool arcade related story about Tim Stryker, creator of MajorBBS reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- commiecat · 2017-01-20 20:57 That's pretty damn awesome. I grew up in South Florida and was part of a few MajorBBS boards. Once I got started playing MajorMUD then I only sought out MajorBBS (later WorldGroup) boards to play on. Thanks, Tim Stryker! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- benjaminocala · 2017-01-21 03:47 What bbses did you call in south florida? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- commiecat · 2017-01-21 12:32 Me? I was in Broward. Started with *Moonshae* and *High Society* and later found "home" at *Fantastic Planet*. Hopped on *Realm of Legends* every now and then as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-01-21 17:22 cool find. so sad about tim. he had a lot of interesting ideas on many subjects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- videotopia · 2017-01-21 17:48 Agreed. He seemed like a super interesting guy, and way ahead of his time in many respects. There doesn't seem to be much info out there about him. I wonder what he would make of what the web has become now? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mattjh · 2017-01-21 20:12 MajorBBS systems were my go-to towards the end of the BBS era and, luckily, there were so many of them here in Philly. Some of the people I met back then are still my friends. I was at one of their weddings in August. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BenJamin3two3one · 2017-01-23 20:17 Sweet, I was Meris on High Society. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-02-07 05:05 he probably would not be happy about how its been commercialized and how people are freely giving up their personal information to uses these services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spider_Gilgamesh · 2017-02-17 17:49 Question from one who doesn't know better: Tim Stryker, MajorBBS. Did he create Major Stryker? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Uleepera · 2017-03-10 02:51 Ever venture over to any of the nj mbbs systems? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mattjh · 2017-03-10 03:00 I didn't, no. We didn't have long distance calling and I can only imagine how my dad might've reacted to a giant phone bill. All of them were in Philadelphia and its suburbs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Uleepera · 2017-03-10 04:07 Ahhh. Yeah my first bbs was in Cali... Didn't understand the concept of long distance. Mom was NOT happy with the 1200 phone bill. Missed a couple good bbses in nj. Cheers and TIF