So who here participated in the glory days of bulletin board systems?
1200 baud modems, door games, "download sections", sysops... man, I totally miss my old culture.
I remember when we bought a bulk load of five 2400 baud modems so that we could get a discount - down to 200 dollars a piece! then discovering that although I could read at 1200baud, I couldn't quite read at 2400 baud, so needed to have page breaks....
And the BBS with only one phone line run out of a friends bedroom, when you couldn't log on if someone was using the local terminal, and the sysop had a habit of falling asleep on the keyboard (thus not being booted for inactivity). We solved this problem by moving into a flat with him so we could shake him awake and send him to bed.
The repeated dialing for hours hoping to get on; the unconventional supertitious methods we used to try to improve our chances. The software to allow you to scan the forums. Thread titles like "Life and a watercolour dawn"...
*Sigh* It was a simpler age, but I do remember it fondly.
