Hello all first time user for BBS system which i find very interesting and looking forward to learning more about this fascinating system.
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Welcome! :)
Did you grow up in the dats of BBSes? I did not so therefore it was also amazing to me.
Re: Hello There!
By: Deavmi to Shank on Wed Mar 22 2017 10:49 am
Welcome! :)
Did you grow up in the dats of BBSes? I did not so therefore it was also amazing to me.
BBSes kinda grew up as I did, I was born in 77, and had a couple commodore computers when I was a real young kid (never any modem access). but once I turned 12 or 13 I was working in a resteraunt washing dishes and making money,
so I was able to afford my first PC. I ended up putting it online, then started
offering fidonet and other networks, along with some games. people wanted to start subscribing, so by the time everything was finished I had an ISDN line run to the house split to 2 phone numbers, along with a satellite feed for fidonet (did'nt last long, too expensive, plus I was able to get an internet feed on the ISDN) that was the days when the next county over was a long distance call. I ended up having about 20 subscribers, plus many many who were
on my free accounts (very limited) very fun for a teen :) Then dialup internet
finally started getting popular and affordable around 1995 or so around here..
so that was the last of my subscriber service. :)
--
Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
KK4QBN BBS
Hello all first time user for BBS system which i find very interesting and looking forward to learning more about this fascinating system.
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Bigbangnet wrote to Shank <=-
Hello back to you. I've visited many bbs in the 90's ( my youth) then
got on the Internet and let go of BBS's. Its only been a couple of week that I discovered them back. Its great. I like it tbh. Even its people
all over the world in some way, it feels local even on dove.net
OK, so unlike the old days, there's not so many users around, but it's fun being online again. :)
Bigbangnet wrote to Shank <=-
Hello back to you. I've visited many bbs in the 90's ( my youth) then got on the Internet and let go of BBS's. Its only been a couple of week that I discovered them back. Its great. I like it tbh. Even its people all over the world in some way, it feels local even on dove.net
I started on BBSs in 1991 when I left home and moved to Melbourne, which put me
within local call range of many BBSs. Prior to that, the cost of modems was prohibitive, and any BBSs were a long distance call away. Ran a board with a friend for a number of yearsuntil the late 1990s, by which time the Internet rapidly took over. I discovered Synchronet a few years ago and dabbled with DOVE-Net, but at the time, I didn't have anywhere to really run a board. The VPS I tried it on is heavily utilised for ham radio stuff, and I didn't want to
have the overhead of a BBS on it. By late 2015, I had a number of Raspberry Pi
and simplar systems, and revisited Synchronet, and with the Pi available, I made a second and lasting attempt to get a board running. I've enjoyed my time
back on BBSs since. :)
OK, so unlike the old days, there's not so many users around, but it's fun being online again. :)
.... Degeneration and evolution are not the same thing.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
� Synchronet � Freeway BBS in Bendigo, Australia.
On 2017-03-23 08:24 AM, Vk3jed wrote:I now use news.aioe.org (anonymous nntp) for usenet access
Awesome.Bigbangnet wrote to Shank <=-then
Hello back to you. I've visited many bbs in the 90's ( my youth)
got on the Internet and let go of BBS's. Its only been a coupleof week
that I discovered them back. Its great. I like it tbh. Even itspeople
all over the world in some way, it feels local even on dove.net
I started on BBSs in 1991 when I left home and moved to Melbourne,
which put me
within local call range of many BBSs. Prior to that, the cost of
modems was
prohibitive, and any BBSs were a long distance call away. Ran a board
with a
friend for a number of yearsuntil the late 1990s, by which time the
Internet
rapidly took over. I discovered Synchronet a few years ago and
dabbled with
DOVE-Net, but at the time, I didn't have anywhere to really run a
board. The
VPS I tried it on is heavily utilised for ham radio stuff, and I
didn't want to
have the overhead of a BBS on it. By late 2015, I had a number of
Raspberry Pi
and simplar systems, and revisited Synchronet, and with the Pi
available, I
made a second and lasting attempt to get a board running. I've
enjoyed my time
back on BBSs since. :)
OK, so unlike the old days, there's not so many users around, but it's
fun
being online again. :)
.... Degeneration and evolution are not the same thing.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
� Synchronet � Freeway BBS in Bendigo, Australia.
Random sidenote: usenet has a lot of spam, but the right server means
(no spam) or atleast less than the kak at eternal-september.org.
OK, so unlike the old days, there's not so many users around, but it's fun being online again. :)
It's great to know that there is that little hangout off the web still alive.
And it's not full of adds and pop-up, so it's even better :-)
---
� Synchronet � MtlGeek - Geeks in Montreal - http://mtlgeek.com/ -
OK, so unlike the old days, there's not so many users around, but it's fun being online again. :)
It's great to know that there is that little hangout off the web still alive.
And it's not full of adds and pop-up, so it's even better :-)
---
� Synchronet � MtlGeek - Geeks in Montreal - http://mtlgeek.com/ -
And it's not full of adds and pop-up, so it's even better :-)
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It's great to know that there is that little hangout off the web still alive.
And it's not full of adds and pop-up, so it's even better :-)
Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Random sidenote: usenet has a lot of spam, but the right server means
(no spam) or atleast less than the kak at eternal-september.org.
Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It would be awesome to get Usenet access going.
Deavmi wrote to Vk3jed <=-
FSXNET? Does it pull some groups from Usenet?
SHANK wrote to ALL <=-
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@MSGID: <58D24103.781.dove-gen@bbs.net247.com.au>
Hello all first time user for BBS system which i find very interesting
and looking forward to learning more about this fascinating system.
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