Bagwaa wrote to TOG <=-

100% agree, I remember in the 90s being amazed that I could talk to someone in another country over something like Fidonet without paying
for long distance calls, was kind of crazy at the time :)

I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.






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Re: Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 11 2025 10:40:48

I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.

It also blows my mind that a community still exists in the BBS space, back in the day everyone seemed to know everyone "locally" over a handful of BBSes, it seems there are a few of us left internationally so that sense of community is still here.

bagwaa

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Re: Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jul 12 2025 07:10 am

It also blows my mind that a community still exists in the BBS space,
back in the day everyone seemed to know everyone "locally" over a
handful of BBSes, it seems there are a few of us left internationally
so that sense of community is still here.

i would call them cliques, not communities. things are very very
different.
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