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I ran a BBS in the early 90s in Chicago called Mad Macs. It ran on a Mac in my bedroom running Hermes and then later on NovaLink Pro. NLP was one of the first s

I ran a BBS in the early 90s in Chicago called Mad Macs. It ran on a Mac in my bedroom running Hermes and then later on NovaLink Pro. NLP was one of the first systems to offer a GUI (special client software required). That's where I got my start designing visual interfaces for the web.

noduerme 15y ago
I ran a hermes bbs off a mac IIsi back in '93 in Los Angeles. Mostly gifs and warez, such as it was. That's how I ended up with Modelshop and started my path toward being a package designer. I was 13. Funnily enough, the first board I ever went on was when I was 8, in 1988, and I figured out how to use my brother's TRS80-100 laptop to get online with its internal 300 baud modem. I dialed up a board that was in Alameda, according to the bbs guide I'd grabbed from the tandoori restaurant my parents took us to. I vaguely thought Alameda was part of Los Angeles (I think I thought it was Alhambra). Finally I got booted when the sysadmin got annoyed that this 300 bps thing was taking up one of his lines half the day. Meanwhile, I racked up a $50 phone bill to the bay area, which my parents were very not cool about. It was all text. I was just looking for BASIC programs so I could figure out how to make pixels do things I wanted.
joezydeco 15y ago
Ripco, all the way. And Greek Inn. Just to give Jason Scott more props, the guy's archive even includes a text file I wrote, cough, 26 years ago. Jesus. At least it's on the net for posterity. His BBS documentary is a grand work and if you haven't seen his latest project, you should check it out and contribute: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scott-documentary-three-pack?ref=live http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scot...