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my older brother used to dial into local BBSes late at night, tying up the phone line and pissing off everyone. mostly forums, file sharing, a few ascii games.
by b0a04gl 1y ago
my older brother used to dial into local BBSes late at night, tying up the phone line and pissing off everyone. mostly forums, file sharing, a few ascii games. he showed me how to telnet into some later on when it moved online. that story about the blind MUD player reminded me some folks never left. they just kept logging in. for them it was just... daily. guess some of these old servers turned into routine for people
- mingus88 1y agoIt was social media without capitalism. Honestly, a utopia. We logged in daily because there was always new content to discover. A new fileshare with obscure content or a zine with cool ascii art. It’s a shame that everything is fed to us now. That sense of discovery is largely gone. It’s interesting to me how that got flipped upside down. People log on daily to consume viral content or meme templates that is in everyone’s feed. Early BBS culture was all about finding the niche where you fit in.
- Shadowmist 1y agoWe don’t all get the same feed.
- pixxel 1y ago[dead]
- anthk 1y agoMUDs once predated IRC, and some MUDs were just talking places. Check Lambda Moo.