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Huh. Didn’t know that about OS/2’s popularity among sysops. One of Temple’s BBSes (Waverley Park) presented what I now think was a Unix shell, or at least suppo
by MandieD 5y ago
Huh. Didn’t know that about OS/2’s popularity among sysops. One of Temple’s BBSes (Waverley Park) presented what I now think was a Unix shell, or at least supposed to look like one, but I can’t imagine they were actually running Linux (ca. 1993)
TENet was the beginning of the end of my BBS days, with its real email and fancy WWW browser - lynx.
Full circle: being the old lady on the team talking about the digital American wild west of the 90s with BBSes (the saloons) and town ISPs (the general stores) to young German colleagues who have known nothing other than gradually increasing Telekom DSL speeds. (Texpats in Germany, represent!)
- ruslan 5y agoOS/2 was sort of a must those days for PC geeks. Like Linux today, or even like FreeBSD.
- wheels 5y agoFun Texas fact: Beto O'Rourke was also part of the BBS scene (Cult of the Dead Cow). For me, I've been in Germany longer than Texas, so I'm not sure I could still call myself a "Texpat", though points for introducing me to said term. ;-)