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BBS's changed my life. It put me onto the path that I took. I wouldn't change it for the world. I've started and sold 5 businesses with my business partner and
by johng 4y ago
BBS's changed my life. It put me onto the path that I took. I wouldn't change it for the world. I've started and sold 5 businesses with my business partner and am still in business with my business partner, whom I met on a BBS when I was around 14... he was 13. That was 30 years ago.
- technothrasher 4y agoI too met a business partner when he called into my BBS in 1985, when I was 14. On our first venture, we sold a shareware door library (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_(bulletin_board_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_(bulletin_board_system)) written in Turbo Pascal. Such fun times. We're no longer business partners, but we're still best friends. 37 years later and its crazy to think our kids are now older than we were at the time. The only reason I was running a BBS was because my dad accidentally bought me the software for my Amiga, thinking it was terminal emulation software. I realized his mistake and thought, heck, since I've got the software...
- krallja 4y agoDid your dad also accidentally buy you a second phone line that wouldn’t ring the house’s phones? ;-)