Attractive women and the BBS scene reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chungleong · 2023-03-30 19:57 I don’t know if this is true for others, but the women whom I met at BBS gatherings were always way more attractive than I’d imagined them to be. Logically it makes sense. Attractive women probably really hated being treated as sex objects all the time. BBSes offered them an escape from this prison of other people’s desires and imagination. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-03-30 20:52 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MrMahgu · 2023-03-31 01:37 wtf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chairmanmow · 2023-03-31 02:45 yeah, everyone forgets the best part of bbs's was getting to meet supermodels. every loser meet i went to it was like 10 supermodels to every nerd. so many super models in love with me for my nerd brain, so logical. the world has gone crazy these days, now all the super models are with jocks.. that's why we need to bring the bbs back guys ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ayukawataur · 2023-03-31 04:48 Probably? We have pretty much hated that full stop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2023-03-31 07:37 Oof. You would think that, in San Diego, I’d get to experience the joy of all the hot gals meeting up to talk modems and downloads, but alas, the couple of meet-n-greets I went to were a motley assortment of characters that covered all spectrums of humanity… *except attractive*. One lady, who I was drawn into over the chats, invited me to her apartment to close the deal in person. What happened that night was awkward, to say the least. All fine people, in retrospect. I mean, I was one of them, even if I wouldn’t admit it at the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chungleong · 2023-03-31 08:38 For a guy, talking to a very attractive woman is actually not that pleasant of an experience. Most of the time you're treated as a surrogate female friend that she doesn't have. And of course, when a woman is telling you her guy problems, you know for sure she's not into you. Still you have to sit there and listen. What I'm saying sounds implausible to some because people have come to believe in movie logic, according to which if an attractive woman talks to our protagonist, chances are they'll end up in bed together. In real life, the probability is essentially zero, I would say. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chungleong · 2023-03-31 10:49 I was in San Francisco. The demographics of the city probably means our meet-ups were more peculiar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- codefenix · 2023-03-31 19:13 Obviously, attractiveness is subjective, but I think there's *some* truth to this. In the 80s and 90s, the stereotypical image of an ordinary computer user was usually male, expected to be kind of on the geeky side. Young, naive people like myself at the time assumed it simply wasn't the domain of females. To see gals hanging around on a BBS was interesting and unexpected to say the least. I went to one or two BBS meetups at pizza places, or on a couple occasions a gal from a chat room and I would agree to meet up somewhere like Barnes & Noble, and usually the person I met was more attractive than I expected. Certainly more attractive than I considered myself, so it was more than a little intimidating for me. But the gals I met were always nice to talk to face-to-face, and they didn't make me feel bad about myself like I expected. I think it helped me overcome some of the shyness and self-esteem issues I had back then. I maintained friendships with a couple of those gals for a few years, but then life slowly pulled us our separate ways, just like any other friendship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chungleong · 2023-03-31 20:20 The BBS scene was pretty diverse, I guess. I’m probably only remembering the ones I socialized and forgetting those from which all I did was leech. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Considerable-Girth · 2023-04-03 22:51 This matches my experience in the 303 scene in the 90s. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- whizzfizzz · 2023-04-03 22:58 The few BBS meet's i went to in the mid to late 90s were mostly school mates that i hung out with all the time anyway, the Sysop and a couple users who always turned up and you'd get the random user that would make their first appearance. We were a pretty mixed bunch but mostly nerdy... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- East_Living7198 · 2023-04-04 15:25 OP just won the contest for most cringe comment of the year. This year we are giving it out early. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-04-13 17:22 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chungleong · 2023-04-13 17:29 I forgot the name. The chat BBS I frequented at the time had kiosks (tables with computer built into them) at various coffeehouses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-04-13 17:31 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Grouchy_Treacle_7495 · 2023-05-09 10:54 Raj Koothrappali is that you?