Any pre-web BBSers out there? - Beyond Tiki

F freddiefreelance Member San Diego, Ca. Joined: Feb 15, 2003 Posts: 3006	F freddiefreelance Posted posted on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 8:36 AM I started using BBSes in '95/'96 & used'em for a couple of years, even after I got Internet. There were about a dozen good BBSes here in San Diego (file & message boards, not porn & singles meet-up boaeds), & I got in trouble with my wife's boss for using her work phone to dial-up to some that were a local toll call away. I wasn't so bad that I was calling long distance looking for programs (remember old hackers & phreaks running scams to make money to pay their long distance bills?). I'd start by calling the ComputorEdge BBS & download the latest list of county-wide BBSes to see if anyone new had started up, then I'd check these & my favorites for new shareware & freeware, sometimes joining in on message boards on programming, beer or conspiracies. Usually I'd be busy hunting down & downloading files that I'd find on 1 BBS but not others so I could upload'em to get credit to download other files that I'd then upload to a 3rd... I missed the whole DOS era working in other fields & avoiding computers (I'd worked on & studied computers & programming from '79 to '84, then spent nearly 10 years working with almost anything else), so I missed the true heydays of BBSes in the early '90s. Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Freelance, Ph.D., D.F.S [ Edited by: freddiefreelance on 2004-04-23 08:38 ]

I started using BBSes in '95/'96 & used'em for a couple of years, even after I got Internet. There were about a dozen good BBSes here in San Diego (file & message boards, not porn & singles meet-up boaeds), & I got in trouble with my wife's boss for using her work phone to dial-up to some that were a local toll call away. I wasn't so bad that I was calling long distance looking for programs (remember old hackers & phreaks running scams to make money to pay their long distance bills?). I'd start by calling the ComputorEdge BBS & download the latest list of county-wide BBSes to see if anyone new had started up, then I'd check these & my favorites for new shareware & freeware, sometimes joining in on message boards on programming, beer or conspiracies. Usually I'd be busy hunting down & downloading files that I'd find on 1 BBS but not others so I could upload'em to get credit to download other files that I'd then upload to a 3rd...

I missed the whole DOS era working in other fields & avoiding computers (I'd worked on & studied computers & programming from '79 to '84, then spent nearly 10 years working with almost anything else), so I missed the true heydays of BBSes in the early '90s.

Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Freelance, Ph.D., D.F.S

[ Edited by: freddiefreelance on 2004-04-23 08:38 ]

Post #87791 by freddiefreelance on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 8:36 AM