There was a brilliant set of local BBSes where I grew up in Nottingham. The local cable company, Diamond Cable (since taken over by NTL/Virgin Media), offered f

There was a brilliant set of local BBSes where I grew up in Nottingham. The local cable company, Diamond Cable (since taken over by NTL/Virgin Media), offered free local calls to other cable customers. This obviously provided the perfect ecosystem for BBSes to pop up and thrive. I fondly remember old door games such as LORD [0], and downloading the Quake 1 demo using a 14.4k modem - That took some time! BBSes themselves used some technology that wasn't mainstream, DESQview being a good example - a nice text UI for multitasking DOS. [0]: https://www.pcmag.com/feature/340587/the-forgotten-world-of-bbs-door-games/6 https://www.pcmag.com/feature/340587/the-forgotten-world-of-... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview