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BBS's are a pretty big nostalgia trap for me. I spent my childhood using an old 8088 dialing up boards / exploring our local areas bbs scene. Hell, I met my w

BBS's are a pretty big nostalgia trap for me. I spent my childhood using an old 8088 dialing up boards / exploring our local areas bbs scene. Hell, I met my wife on a BBS originally - we were chatting later at a party and it came up and we realized we had spoken a few times before. The BBS period reminds me of freedom, exploration, and a time when everything wasnt monetized by ultra corps. Its that memory that worries me. I sometimes wish I could go back to that time but you can never swim in the same river twice. Its moved on. We need to also. Its a trap. One I fall into every once in a while.

stolenmerch 4y ago
It's a huge nostalgia trap for me too. Probably because we can't go back. There's nothing else that brings me the same feeling. For people of a certain age, it's almost like being homesick for the house you grew up in. Sometimes I'll dink around setting up a Syncronet board or connect to House of Lunduke or something, but it's never the same. You just can't recapture the magic. In retrospect it was such a brief, intense love affair. For me it started in 1990 when I bought a modem from the back of a magazine in high school, installed it in my Tandy 1000 myself, and used every penny of pay from my job on long-distance calls. When I went to college I was the only student in the dorms who could dial into our school's Sun System and telnet to ISCABBS, so our room became a late night hang out for friends every night. I still visted ISCA for a while at my first job out of college, but it just petered out as the web became prominent. What I would give to discover a new technology that inspired so much wonder and optimism.
m463 4y ago
I used something called PC Pursuit. It was a way to dial into BBS systems in other metropolitan areas without using long distance. fun :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit

stolenmerch 4y ago

It's a huge nostalgia trap for me too. Probably because we can't go back. There's nothing else that brings me the same feeling. For people of a certain age, it's almost like being homesick for the house you grew up in. Sometimes I'll dink around setting up a Syncronet board or connect to House of Lunduke or something, but it's never the same. You just can't recapture the magic. In retrospect it was such a brief, intense love affair. For me it started in 1990 when I bought a modem from the back of a magazine in high school, installed it in my Tandy 1000 myself, and used every penny of pay from my job on long-distance calls. When I went to college I was the only student in the dorms who could dial into our school's Sun System and telnet to ISCABBS, so our room became a late night hang out for friends every night. I still visted ISCA for a while at my first job out of college, but it just petered out as the web became prominent. What I would give to discover a new technology that inspired so much wonder and optimism.

m463 4y ago

I used something called PC Pursuit. It was a way to dial into BBS systems in other metropolitan areas without using long distance. fun :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit