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asmodeusb

BBSs

Jan 29, 2008 20:50

Its weird to see that today's youth (the forum I was catching up with is overrun with 13-year-olds (at least it seems that way with the "I'm 13" posts followed up with several "I'm 13 too" posts)) have to resort to Wikipedia to know what a BBS is ( Read more... )

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dragondare January 30 2008, 02:50:58 UTC

haha, I remember LORD. And catching gonorrhea from the toilet seat.

mlik January 30 2008, 03:56:33 UTC

Tradewars is all right, but to be any good you had to use scripts and helpers. In some way, having the BBS's limited reach made it easier to succeed in a less competitive environment.

chezmax January 30 2008, 14:02:59 UTC

Hehe, you're like a cyberverse grandpa :P

What are you working on nowadays?

You should come to a games day!

anonymous February 1 2008, 05:17:06 UTC

The world has changed. Hadley is 10 months old now and I was thinking a few days ago about things she'll never fully understand because to her they have always been. Simple things mostly, like cars with headlight switches. Or the fact that people could have a relationship to a TV channel like we did to ckco-tv, which is impossible in todays world of channel selection and specialty channels ( ... )