BBSes & dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)

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.

It's sort of neat that a BBS still served the same purpose for you:
connecting you to Usenet.

Hello to any other lurkers reading through a BBS! ;-)

I never ran into BBSes that had usenet. They did have FidoNet and others!

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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