Today´s Kids use BBS? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LeoReddit2012 · 2020-08-08 18:43 I Want to see. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- blakespot · 2020-08-08 19:12 "Dial up" one of the BBSs on my little list. There's also a guide on how, with modern and vintage hardware. https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jonathanfs · 2020-08-08 20:24 That's a nice page you got there. Thanks for the resources. I've been watching The BBS Documentary this weekend and getting my Performa 638CD ready to go online. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subicus · 2020-08-09 15:23 Just started today due to this post. I always loved vintage stuff and wanted that old internet feel. Thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- blakespot · 2020-08-09 15:29 Glad to hear! See you online! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subicus · 2020-08-09 15:32 It's confusing tho, but I am trying to learn at least the basics. It seems streamlined tho! (At least for shortcuts and stuff) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JohnPolka · 2020-08-09 21:54 Most of today's BBS users are those who experienced the BBS Heyday during the 80s and 90s. But recently, there's been a growing interest in them by younger folks (those in their 20s and 30s). So, to answer your question...yes! :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-08-10 16:19 Majority of BBS users today are Sysops who dial j to other sysops boards. It’s just old tech — the only people who are nostalgic about it about 35+ years old. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UwUgaloo · 2020-08-11 18:52 Im not a "kid" but BBS are way before my time. I'm just starting to try and figure out how it all works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mountain_man007 · 2020-08-14 01:58 Not a kid but definately was in the late 80's & early 90's when I was tying up our phone line 24/7 playing TW thru my Tandy 1000SL, enough so that mom eventually sprung for a 2nd line... wow what a flashback. And even before that, learning BASIC on my TRS-80... thinking the future was here when 3.5" disks started replacing the 5 1/4 floppy and we had "all that" 1.4Mb of storage... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tsn00 · 2020-08-14 03:47 We share a similar history, I started with a Tandy CoCo2, then 3, then one of the Tandy 286 beast, the funny thing, i took the 4 memory chips out of the CoCo3, and put into 4 DIP sockets on the 286 and went from 640K to 768K memory 🤣 Learned BASIC on the CoCo2 then up to Qbasic on the Tandy 1000. Rest is history... BTW I didn't hit my teenage years till the early 90s. Edit: added additional content ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mountain_man007 · 2020-08-14 15:52 We must be pretty close in age... Yeah the crazy thing is how much that stuff cost back then. I never really thought about it before, but mom and dad spent some real money on my PC and BBS habits. Modems, RAM, bbs membership fees, software... You ever play any of Sierra's old games? I can remember Police Quest but there was another that I loved and I cannot remember the name of it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tsn00 · 2020-08-14 23:45 Born in 78. I remember getting up early and my dad driving me to a computer show a couple times a year in different convention centers so I could get computer parts cheaper than any of the local stores. I remember being dialed into one BBS, the sysop broke into a chat with me, asking if I played Doom. Didn't have it at the time, so he gave it to me. Only like 3 or so days to transfer it 🤣 Sierra games, sounds very familiar, but nothing coming to mind off the top of my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mountain_man007 · 2020-08-15 15:42 79 here. And of course Doom! I grew up in very rural area, so pretty much all I had was the Radio Shack in the nearest town mall. But damn I loved going in there and checking out everything once a month or so...RIP. Ahh sweet memory lol [Old man voice] These kids today with their gigabit links and usb3. They have no idea what download management even means or what a real serial port is.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tsn00 · 2020-08-15 16:03 I loved Radio Shack, back in the 80s when the people that worked their actually had a clue. I remember one time going in after the Tandy 1000 series was no longer being sold, asked if they still had any games or anything, after quite a bit of searching in the backroom, they brought out a few games and just gave them to me. Yeah, same here, lot of good memories. LoL, kids these days will never understand sneaker net, backups using 3.5 inch disk. Man.... the old days 😁 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gnu2tux · 2020-08-18 23:28 I'm doing a documentary on using BBS's in the 21st century, with the goal of gaining new blood into the BBS scene. Since you're new to BBS's, I'd really like to hear your insights. Particularly things like how you found out about them, as well as your thoughts on why you use them and why others would be attracted to it etc. I have performed a good number of interviews already, however only one of them has been from someone new to the scene. He's already now a sysop, so if you are a user only, then that would make you completely distinguished from the rest of the interviewees. Please hit me up! I'd love to hear from you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gnu2tux · 2020-08-19 04:19 Hey Subicus, I posted this comment below in response to UwUgaloo's comment, but just saw yours too. I would love to hear from you also, experiences both good and bad - confusing stuff is important to know >I'm doing a documentary on using BBS's in the 21st century, with the goal of gaining new blood into the BBS scene. Since you're new to BBS's, I'd really like to hear your insights. Particularly things like how you found out about them, as well as your thoughts on why you use them and why others would be attracted to it etc. > >I have performed a good number of interviews already, however only one of them has been from someone new to the scene. He's already now a sysop, so if you are a user only, then that would make you completely distinguished from the rest of the interviewees. > >Please hit me up! I'd love to hear from you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-08-27 18:47 [deleted]