Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: BBSes & dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:50:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <7jcngjls90a07aai9ij7g2gcfv0sd52m1k@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1c8d4025888f5fcb9d1733f760670b6d"; logging-data="612250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19SucQDWINDSKsJ1NlaWg41lMdtxB4YfJBpDHYjt28ePg==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GRY+Bu9JP9qvN6+eW9aBRAEWVaw= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 02:13 this Sunday (GMT): > candycanearter07 wrote: >> Ant wrote at 02:28 this Wednesday (GMT): >> > Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> > ... >> >> Fortunately, I _was_ able to find a BBS, albeit one with ridiculously >> >> tiny connect-time and message quotas (both posting and reading). >> >> Still, it was local and fairly inexpensive and it served until a >> >> dial-up ISP finally made it to my area. >> > >> >> It's sort of neat that a BBS still served the same purpose for you: >> >> connecting you to Usenet. >> > >> >> Hello to any other lurkers reading through a BBS! ;-) >> > >> > I never ran into BBSes that had usenet. They did have FidoNet and others! >> > >> > Speaking of BBSes, RIP to Ward Christensen who was a BBS inventor and >> > architect of our online age at age 78: >> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/ >> >:~( > >> Fidonet apparently added a USENET link "recently". > > Recently? Where? I'd like to see it. I didn't even know FidoNet is still around! :O Yeah, some of the Fidonet BBS's have it. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom