Did any of you Dialup in the Chicago/Elk Grove Village Area during 1994-1996? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2019-05-25 23:24 I was thinking of some of the awesome BBS's I hung out at when I was in college in the 90's. I remember going through the Chicagoland BBSList which I think was like 40 pages long for all the BBS's in town. I vividly remember being on the DOOMBBS a lot it had an awesome ANSI of the doom guy fighting the horde for the login the sysop was Bogey or Bogeyman. I remember there was one called "The Bob Saget Hate Club" and I was trying to remember the name of a BBS that was for a local computer store and they had a spinning Jolt Cola Can screensaver you could download from their BBS, It was over near the QZAR Lazer tag center. It's fun to think back at a lot of the good times online back then. What was some of your favorite local BBS memories? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BrightonPark · 2019-05-26 04:47 I used to run a Spitfire BBS in Chicago in 94-95 called The Chicago Connection BBS. It ran on my Packard Bell 725DX (which I’m still looking for!) and ATI 9600 modem. My dad had a business line he’d let me use at night so it would run from like 5pm to 9am. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2019-05-26 13:28 That's really Cool! I had a Packard Bell Legend 401CD. I went to DeVry in Addison, IL during that time and I worked at Venture department store near the school which also had a Best Buy and a Sam's Club next to it. I spent allot of money on games at Best Buy and Sam's Club. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- laxe14 · 2019-05-27 18:57 Mental Meltdown BBS,I ran off a Packard Bell Legend 486sx/33, Here in Northwest Indiana. I was on the Chicago BBS list a few years... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2019-05-27 23:04 Another Packard Bell :) Well I don't blame you they were always way cheaper than the competitors in the 90's by a few hundred dollars. what door games did you run? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- laxe14 · 2019-05-28 18:14 Lord, tw2002, usurper, you know... The usual... Plus I had a few "adult oriented" games (can't remember the names), barneysplat... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2019-05-28 21:26 I still geek out that back in the day that the best form of online was the BBS :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- laxe14 · 2019-05-31 00:53 I still wish we were in that era. Modern social media sucks.