Sujet : Re: BBSes & dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
De : ant (at) *nospam* zimage.comANT (Ant)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 21. Oct 2024, 03:47:37
Autres entêtes
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candycanearter07 <
candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:13 this Sunday (GMT):
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:28 this Wednesday (GMT):
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Fortunately, I _was_ able to find a BBS, albeit one with ridiculously
tiny connect-time and message quotas (both posting and reading).
Still, it was local and fairly inexpensive and it served until a
dial-up ISP finally made it to my area.
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It's sort of neat that a BBS still served the same purpose for you:
connecting you to Usenet.
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Hello to any other lurkers reading through a BBS! ;-)
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I never ran into BBSes that had usenet. They did have FidoNet and others!
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Speaking of BBSes, RIP to Ward Christensen who was a BBS inventor and
architect of our online age at age 78:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/
:~(
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Fidonet apparently added a USENET link "recently".
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Recently? Where? I'd like to see it. I didn't even know FidoNet is still around! :O
Yeah, some of the Fidonet BBS's have it.
Which? Where? List please!
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