I dunno - as a sysop I carried lots of usenet groups via the FidoNet gateways. This let myself and a lot of my callers participate in Internet content from the

I dunno - as a sysop I carried lots of usenet groups via the FidoNet gateways. This let myself and a lot of my callers participate in Internet content from the BBS side of things. Was a crucial bridge until Internet access became a lot more ubiquitous. I also had the good fortune to be in some of the first neighborhoods to get broadband internet in the 90's - so yeah, once that happened the whole BBS thing dramatically dropped off. But you still had small topical based communities clustered around message boards - before the great consolidation onto these massive "social" media platforms. Bleh.