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Side note: Had to click on 4 links to actually get to the page that explains what is meant with BBS [1]. > Bulletin board system [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org

• mlindner 4y ago
  It's interesting that this term is being lost to time as I'd expect almost anyone on this site beyond a certain age used a BBS in the past.
  • hibikir 4y ago
    It's not just a matter of age, but of location. I am old enough to have grown with 8 bit computers, but at that time, I didn't live in a country with free local calls. The price of local calls was 0.50c a minute in current US dollars. As you might imagine, it's difficult to have a BBS culture with those prices. BBS use was going to have to be attached to some phreaking activities, and at that point, you might as well go international instead of calling down the street. Countries with that kind of local pricing jumped straight to the internet, at whichever time the prices for the general public became reasonable. For instance, In my home country the first special data rates started in 1995, where a dollar would get you an hour of internet, everything included. With that 30x drop in prices, internet usage exploded.
• drivers99 4y ago
  Here’s a good video (I checked several; this one seems best) with demonstrations and explanations of how it used to work, and how it works now https://youtu.be/JWdr4zeE3JU https://youtu.be/JWdr4zeE3JU
• deleted 4y ago
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