I was way into the BBS scene in Portland, Oregon in the early 90s. Played LORD, the risk game, a little Trade Wars etc. But also uses the messaging services a

I was way into the BBS scene in Portland, Oregon in the early 90s. Played LORD, the risk game, a little Trade Wars etc. But also uses the messaging services and met my first person from “online” in real life. My mom drove me to an outlet mall in Troutdale to meet him. I also did some ASCII art for smaller boards. I haven’t finished this documentary, but for every one of these nicely finished art pieces there were many, many jenky simple intros. My stuff was small animations, moving stick people around big simpler logos that kind of thing. I remember spending days animating a small Spider Man character. It was also where I spent my first money online, where I sent cash in the mail to a BBS based out of Lake Oswego. I think to get more time with them. They were one of the fewer with a trunk, so there were multiple users online at once, and less chance of a busy signal. It was really cool back then, there was a small weekly paper publication with a page in the classifieds dedicated to BBSs. That was how I found out about new ones.