Comments on: A requiem for CompuServe

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:12:25 +0000

“a Commodore 128″

Captain Kirk still is a-huckstering, now on the Internet (Priceline).

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:09 +0000

I was on a state-wide (all-campuses) “underground” BBS when I was in school, as well as running one myself on my own campus (local-campus only). I also did “chatting” which not called that back then.

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How long will it be before America Online itself gets shut down?

By: Solomon Kleinsmith

Solomon Kleinsmith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:19:56 +0000

I had my own BBS for a few years before I had even heard of the internet. I had to get a login to the local university's network (I was in middle school at the time, most college students didn't use their account and we found out the default password) to get on, which consisted of just black and white at the time I think.

Used Prodigy at my father's house, but usually went with a local ISP.

The good old days, heheh... before AOL.

By: T_Steel

T_Steel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:47:21 +0000

I was in junior high school helping a friend run a BBS off a Commodore 128, one 1581 disk drive and a 20MB Lt. Kernal hard disk system. Used the New Image BBS software (formerly Perspective Software). My friend's father was an electrical engineer and seemed to have all the gadgets and gizmos. And how could I forget the Commodore 1670 1200 baud modem!!

Ah those were the days… Hearing the phone ring, the sound of the “handshake” coming across the modem, and watching a SINGLE user log in. We felt like techie gods. LOL!

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:22:04 +0000

Of course, there was also Prodigy and Delphi, for those of us old enough to remember (at least 300 years old in internet years).

How many of you out there also started out using BBS, or UUNET?