Post #87789 by Humuhumu on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 8:19 AM

In 1996??? Wow, that's amazing. I had my first email address in 1994, by January of 1995 I was using the web pretty heavily (it only became legal to sell things over the web in April of that year). One guy in your CS class had used it a year later?? Wowie Zowie. Maybe they were all busy with MUDDs.

Alpo never connected his BBS up to a national network; his and the other BBSs that were popular in Seattle were all very incestually connected to the local scene we had going. Later on, another good friend of mine started a RIPterm primitive point & click BBS called King of the Cats that was popular enough that there were some people dialing in from all over the country, and he was uploading & downloading messages every night. He had a bank of nine phone lines! I loved that BBS, too, but it didn't have the same social impact that Alpo's did for me.