Yes, my experience with BBSes was in the early 1980s -- I had no idea until reading this article that some lasted into the late 1990s still as dialup, although

Yes, my experience with BBSes was in the early 1980s -- I had no idea until reading this article that some lasted into the late 1990s still as dialup, although I had heard of the BBS-over-telnet phenomenon in the 2000s. But I had net access via my university (mostly ftp and Usenet as the Web wasn't yet a thing) since the late 1980s and so left the BBS world early.