alt Hacker NewsAppreciate this share.
Whenever I hear about this new fangled AT protocol all the kids are jazzed about, I get all wistful for the BBS era.
FidoNet & PC-Relay were pretty fanfastic. For the time, obv.
Source: Was sysadmin for a hub.
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BruceEel • today at 2:40 PM
Aye, they were. I also liked listening to this [1] (Jason Scott's) interview with Mark Herring.
[1] https://archive.org/details/20021102-bbs-herring/Mark+Herrin...
I loved that era. I was a BBSer from about 1988 through 1994 or so, on several systems with FidoNet and RelayNet / RIME. I also ran my own BBS for a while, eventually it had some Usenet newsgroups and Internet email through UUCP (anyone remember bang paths?)
What I miss most is the local community aspect. In my teens and early 20's I met several friends through BBSes.