Ran a BBS on my Laser 128EX (Apple 2 clone) as a teenager for a couple years. Modified DDBBS software, which was pretty good Apple 2 BBS software that included

Ran a BBS on my Laser 128EX (Apple 2 clone) as a teenager for a couple years. Modified DDBBS software, which was pretty good Apple 2 BBS software that included an RPG-like game built right into it (it wasn't a "door", your account WAS your character). I expanded the game; I think it was written in ACOS/MACOS like a lot of Apple 2 BBS software at the time. The original DDBBS author was Evan Molnar I think. Evan, are you on Hacker News now? :) Later I upgraded to something called FutureVision I believe, written in what was more or less the final bespoke Apple 2 BBS language, "METAL". At this point I was heading off to college and the internet was spinning up. I finally got a 486 too, so I could play Doom :P Running a BBS was so, so, so much fun. I'm still chasing that dragon to this day. It was weird to be the "head" of a community as a 16 year old introvert. My users were mostly adults. We had a meet up once that my parents barely even let me go to, and most people were shocked by my age. I think only old people, and me, were still using Apple 2's in the early 90's :P