Anyone remember the old BBS days?

yes

in england they only had about 3 tv channels until satalite came around.

Haha Eric. Actually in Ireland there are only 4 domestic channels.



Mark

i remember brousing the bbs with my 2400 baud modem

I was the LORD king...



jesus im a loser. :(

why does LORD always seem to surface its head once and a while?

I used to run a Wildcat! based BBS. Funny I still have the software installed and used to use it as my mail server.



Ah I just beat LORD again the other day for the billionth time. I guess that makes me an uber geek.



Yeah and I married Violet too.

I ran a bbs on renegade software, I did my own ansi art too bitches!

lol...

Renegade. Ewwwwwwwwww!

i was thinking bbs rims.

For all of us that arnt that old wtf is bbs? some newsgroup/maillist/pre-forum software i would guess?

Usually you used a telecomunications program to dial into the BBS (Qmodem,

Telix, HyperTerm, etc) and then you got ANSI graphics. That's just plain old text for you young whipper snappers. If you've ever used telnet you've got the idea.



Most BBS's had file areas where you could download/upload files, message areas where you could talk and nifty things called doors where you could play games etc.



Popular BBS packages inluded Wildcat!, Renegade, TriBBS, PC-BOARD, MajorBBS, Searchlight, TBBS, KBBS



Ahhh the good old days.



BBS's are dead, the only two packages that I know of that still exsist are Wildcat! (http://www.santronics.com) and MajorBBS or Worldcomm whatever they call it now.

They were before my time, but had it been capable, the RIAA and MPAA would've hardly been able to touch the piracy issue, since the GOOD BBSes were only discovered by word of mouth, and they wouldnt let just anyone in...

i know what ANSI is but never heard of BBS. at first i was thinking of BBC.

bbs's were the nerds answer to pre-publice internet days. You called local bbs's with a modem ... lol most likely your 14.4 or if you were a baller it was a 28.8!



Everyone that called them were usually locals in the area to that bbs (same area code), and like someone metioned, they were usually only found by word of mouth. You had to be in on the nerd circle... :(

i was thinking dritish broadcasting service.