When I was 11 years old, I intermittently ran a Telegard 2.7 BBS using a 2400bps external hayes modem that I plugged into the electrical outlet. Eventually, I

When I was 11 years old, I intermittently ran a Telegard 2.7 BBS using a 2400bps external hayes modem that I plugged into the electrical outlet. Eventually, I upgraded to a 14.4k internal modem and have bad memories of fighting IRQ jumpers every now and then. I played a lot of doors and eventually was consumed by tele-arena. I enjoyed collecting ANSI art and mod music. Those scenes had some really talented people. The local bbs's were on FIDO net. I vaguely remember posting. I remember going to a couple of BBS picnics and was always the youngest among the crowd, but the people were usually nice. I had friends in real life but had developed an online life with a very different group of people. BBS's gave me access to smart people and more substantial conversation, but also a lot of trolling. Back then, turbo pascal was a popular language. I knew nothing about programming and found it beyond me to learn it on my own. I tried to find help but failed. I wonder how my life would have changed had I taken up programming at age 12. Has anyone seen the BBS Documentary? http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/