I hosted a BBS in St.Petersburg, Russia at the dawn of the age of BBS, in 2001-2002. Everybody had a dial-up Internet connection these days but it was too pricy

I hosted a BBS in St.Petersburg, Russia at the dawn of the age of BBS, in 2001-2002. Everybody had a dial-up Internet connection these days but it was too pricy to be the only "connectivity". File hosting using BBS is almost completely lost its value, maybe only cool demos collections were valuable. And eventually, someone may download some FIDO software. To me, a BBS was partially a self-expression method (I draw poor quality ASCII graphics), and partially an old school "chatroulette" :) There was a chat in BBS software, and visitors often used it to talk about everything :) Many BBSes in my city were active at night time only. Mine was open from 11 pm to 8 am, and most active hours were from 11 pm to 2-3 am.