What a BBS Is (by winter)

found this post about BBSes

gemlog

🍀 gritty

Feb 14 · 3 months ago · 👍 taichara

3 Comments ↓

🚀 stack · Feb 14 at 01:03:

Yeah. I remember the magical feeling, after dialing and getting a busy signal a few times, the modem would make that handshake sound and weird texty things would scroll across the screen. I'd do my business quickly and get out, because long-distance was expensive, by the minute...

🍺 mrrobinhood5 · Feb 14 at 02:33:

@gritty. Uh. That ended in a really dark way. Very interesting read. Thank you for the find.

🚀 stack · Feb 14 at 03:28:

Gees, I should have read it to the end... But in my experience as a barely-teen in the 80s in NYC, the only pedos I met were IRL, not online. I certainly would not go to a BBS meetup had I known such things existed.