Subj : Re: What do you get out of running a BBS?
To   : Nightfox
From : Warpslide
Date : Tue Apr 06 2021 09:36 pm

*** Quoting Nightfox from a message to Warpslide ***

 Wa> My old boss is the exact same age as I am and he had never heard  of
 Wa> a BBS before.

 Ni> I was 14 years old (in 1994) when I started my first BBS.  At the
 Ni> time, I was talking to a friend of mine about computer stuff and I
 Ni> said I had started running a BBS.  He said he didn't know what a BBS
 Ni> was.  I was a little surprised.

Sounds like we're the same age as well.  I started my board when I was 15 or 
16 though.

 Ni> That's cool.  My mom isn't big into computers but knows the basics of
 Ni> using a computer.  My dad was always into computers though and is
 Ni> familiar with what a BBSis.

It's the opposite for me.  My Mom has an iPhone, iPad & laptop today and has 
pretty much always enjoyed technology.  Back when I lived at home I had 
networked my BBS PC w/ the family PC (a 10 meg coax connection) so we could 
play a game of Age of Empires against each other.

To this day my Dad still doesn't have a computer, cell phone or even call 
display on his landline.


Jay

.... Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

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