Long before the Internet....
 

This sure brings back some memories!! :shucks:


BBS: The Documentary (2005)

2005! That's sooooo long ago...

What an intersting look into the history behind communities like this one. I must confess, I didn't really know any of that before.

Two cool things I learned from that video; I should buy my next computer from Crazy Eddie's, and now that I know a little about the substance material, I can post like I'm an expert and call people names. It's part of our heritage.:DL


Thanks for the vid, Neal:up:

Before internet?
Doesnotcompute.

Internet ?

I remember the joy of the old 28kb/s dial modem that seemed so modern back in the late 1990's

Aaah the good old days of 1200/75bps modems, handset coupling and the BBS. A mate and I used to run one which aside from a forum and real time chat room included online MP games! 1990 we started and shut it down in 1996.

All this suposedly Web 2.0 stuff is really just the same things that were around then rehashed and dressed in prettier graphics. The principles of communicating in a community have not really changed much from cave man days, just the technology being used.

I remember reading on the tech magazines where people were advised not to invest in the "new" 2400 baud modems as the phone lines would not be able to support the data rate.

In the early 80's, I remember, very fondly, with my little 300 baud modem, hooked up to my blazing fast 286, trying to hook up with another BBS.

I guess the current generation just does not have anything to compare with the joy and amazement of:

>can you read this?

>Yes, can you read this?

>this is so cool!

> Yes it is

And it was totally cool to be able to "talk" to another computer. :yeah:

I had to mail in a 5.25 disk for a printer driver once. Then I discovered a huge magazine (more like a phone book) that had all of the listed BBS numbers in it.

I Dl'ed my drivers from that day...

The joy of a 14kb/s modem running on work server with internet sharing to 12 PC's with show all folders enabled & no firewall :har: I remember the day when Zone alarm came out and i installed it on the server thinking this is rubbish it wont last 12months.

I remember BBS's.

Here's another oldie but moldy term: DECnet. :yeah:

I'm having flashbacks, stop it:har: Now, where is my Amiga? I know I left it around here somewhere.

It reminds me that a guy I used to study with made his essays, translations and reports on his commodore64, while the rest of us laughed at him, because we had fast 486 pc's..... :D

Also, I found a couple of years ago while running win98 a commodore64 simulation program and some of the games I used to play in the 80'ies. Talk about nostalgy mode...

I think this guy once told me that it at some point was possible to connect to the internet with a c64. I'm not sure if it was true or just wishthinking. :hmmm:

Just for the record: he does use pc today...;)

I believe that is the date the documentry was made. The technology they are referring to is from circa 1970. I know because I'm one of those aincent relics whom ran / used BBSes with dial up modems and awsome Baud rates of up to 300 :rotfl:

Makes me feel like an anitique to see this discussed in this manner.