Any Old timers still around??
reddit / bbs

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[deleted] · 2019-10-14 08:23

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lucidphreak · 2019-10-15 23:06

I've been doing telecom on computers since around 1983, so yea I would
think I qualify.. if you mean for the bbs above, nah...

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swolf154 · 2019-10-26 17:08

Thanks for the reply. Do you still BBS?  Are you a current SysOp? What
Boards do you hangout on?

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samalex01 · 2019-12-11 12:16

You mean BBS users or sysops?  I first called a BBS in I believe 1988
and was hooked until the internet sealed the BBS coffin over a decade
later.  I ran a few board, but nothing that took off.  I miss those
days...  Telnet BBSes are nice but not the same thing.  I loved the
local aspect to BBSes and talking to other users at local meetups and
call back validations.  Just seems the sysop to user ratio now is
almost 1:1 as everyone wants to run their own. Just not sustainable.
Boy do I miss those days.

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eldergeekprime · 2019-12-30 23:00

I was the sysop for the Ahoy! Magazine BBS back in the early 80s,
wrote the first BBS door game (for Renegade), ran a few other systems
after Ahoy! (The Underground, Undy II, Brooklyn After Dark), and I'm
featured in the BBS Documentary.  I suppose that qualifies me... ;)