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I remember regularly driving past the computer store in Boardman or Youngstown or whatever with the “home of Rusty n Edie’s BBS” sign out front. I called it a

I remember regularly driving past the computer store in Boardman or Youngstown or whatever with the “home of Rusty n Edie’s BBS” sign out front. I called it a few times but it was never one of my regular ones, despite being active on several other BBSs in the area.

dccoolgai 5y ago
It's really an ironic shame that the region - which had various flavors of corrupt politicians always promising to "bring back the jobs" it lost from the Steel Mill Days had this concentration of activity in this nascent explosive industry: there was a huge concentration of BBS numbers in the Cleveland/Youngstown/Akron area code and rather than trying to grow the industry they just let it float away... While clutching their pearls about "the jobs".