> BBSs were all text all the time — no graphics, no icons, or avatars to go along with your posts and musings. ANSI/ASCII artists might beg to differ a little?

> BBSs were all text all the time — no graphics, no icons, or avatars to go along with your posts and musings. ANSI/ASCII artists might beg to differ a little? Of course you couldn’t plop down reaction gifs or a quick photo of something you saw. However, BBSs were often distribution paths for demos/intros/cracktros which contained plenty of rambling musings in their scrollers.