I just found one of the first things I posted to a BBS when I was 12 on the Internet. You have to know where to look, but still…
@matigo this guy did for sure. Most of my BBSing was in the mid-to-late 1980s. During college, I got to experience the first Mozilla web browser, and the rest was history, as they say.
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@matigo you could chat with the sysop, if s/he was around. XBBS actually had four lines, so you could chat in realtime with others.
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@matigo I ran it on an Apple ][ with a single phone line. I also know people who wrote their own BBS to run on an 8086. One BBS I used back in the day was XBBS [midnightbeach.com], which is what I modeled the threaded message system I wrote after.
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@matigo I ran a BBS for a while. Even wrote a threaded message system for it.
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You know what? This little experiment @matigo is running feels kind of, sort of like an old bulletin board system. Yes, we don't need a modem to connect, but because the masses aren't here, it has a more intimate feel.