Reply With QuoteMeanies.
So, I was leaving a comment on someone's blog today, and mentioned that I'd been involved in online communities all the way back to when I hosted a BBS in my dorm room.
They asked "What's a BBS?"
..... :(
Meanies.
It hurts most the first time it hits you.
Maybe they were just retarded?
I got this feeling the first time I heard an orchestral version of an AC/DC song used in an elevator. So old...
I feel for ya Athryn. I get the same response when I talk about old BBS games and MUD's to friends. They're like wtf? However, there is a pretty good chunk of game players today that don't even know what Pong was, nor ever played it.
Now that just makes me feel DAMN old.
Well, I have one of those new fangled 2400 baud modems in my collection of hardware. So don't feel alone.
You're not old unless you can remember The Great Depression.
I get those special looks whenever I try to bring up my old Commodore 64 around the office. They don't know what it is and don't care.
You mean the one in '91, right?Originally Posted by Dirt
I have a 1200 baud modem. Atari brand. The size of a modern scanner.
I didn't get my first PC until 93 :(
I think I logged on to a BBS once. A local one. I got on and couldn't figure out how to do anything at all.
That's the entirety of my experience. Then the internet came, and life was good.
BBS? MUD? 2400 baud? C64? What are these strange terms you people are using?
Man I remember how much I loved my first modem. I used to call all these BBSs but my favorite was the Sierra BBS. I don't remember what they had but it was awesome.
Maybe hints or something.
We actually had to change phone plans to one of the new fangled 10 cents a minute type plans because I spent so much time on the phone to Oakhurst CA.
Ah, the memories.
Charles is right. It isn't about age. I used a BBS, but most of the people I knew at that time did not. It wasn't like the internet at all. No one was online, except those of us nerdy enough to do so. So cheer up!
The pain got worse for me when I realized that young adults do not remember any presidency before Clinton.
Or a time before The Simpsons.
In exchange for free accounts, my wife and I used to maintain a second phone line, set up to automatically forward calls to a local BBS. We had a table for our BBS friends at our wedding reception, which required a fair amount of explaining to the older relatives.
Or Diff'rent Strokes.
This young adult was born during the Truman administration. And I've run into young adults who've never heard of The Truman Show.
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I miss door games. I can't believe anybody's doing a modern version of those.
The Wonder Years.
Quick, someone start up a QT3 version of Trade Wars while we are all still nostalgic.
there actually was a web-based version of TW online a while back.
and squeakyfoo, get off my lawn
Ah, the good ol' BBS door games. Tradewars was huge. I also enjoyed Esterian Conquest which had you building and sending out space fleets to to, well, conquer the universe. Also enjoyed Operation Overkill. nothing like a good post-apocalyptic world to muck around in.
Nah, I think he means 1983. The collapse of Atari.
Legend of the Red Dragon 4 lyfe
Also, RIP Sojourn MUD.
My one and only experience with a BBS game was brief play in a VGA planets demo game when I was 13. I got kicked out for hex editing my turn files to put my tech level up. It was really noticeable as I kicked it up beyond what the demo version of the game would allow. Thus I was politely asked to leave that game and that BBS and never come back. And that pretty much ended my BBS days.
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