Subj : Re: Where is everybody?
To   : tassiebob
From : fusion
Date : Sat Jun 24 2023 04:02 pm

On 24 Jun 2023, tassiebob said the following...
 
 ta> Fast forward a few years and the internet was no longer just for defence
 ta> and academia and the nerds of the day, and the mums & dad's, started
 ta> using that instead.

i'd say from like 98-04 or so was basically a bunch of telnet BBSes fighting for the last of the BBS callers who figured out what telnet was. tbh they
were probably driven away. some big BBSes made the jump to telnet and then
closed up soon after, and most newer ones were around a couple weeks and then disappeared.

no three words better describe BBSing back then: "Connection timed out..."

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