Just before heading to bed tonight, I was goofing about on Google (doing that hubris-filled “search for your own name” thing) and found a link that brought me back to my youth. My dad used to run a bulletin board system (BBS) from our home. In their golden era, the BBSes of the world were the telephone equivalent of the internet chat room, blog, game site, and software repository. I found the site listed in a “catalog of BBSes in the (203) area code, in Connecticut”:http://bbslist.textfiles.com/203/oldschool.html.
I remember that BBS well. “The Hub”, as dad called it, always ran off his desktop machine. In its heyday, he had two big multi-CD drives attached to it that he got at computer shows in Meriden. I’ve got those drives in a trunk in this office, and they still work great. Those CDs served all kinds of free software that he also got for cheap on CDs at the shows.
It’s nice to think back to those simple, serial days of the BBS. It’s also nice to think that getting information to and from the world is a lot faster than it used to be. Thank-you broadband!
