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 DW> You mentioning high school and WWIV got me thinking. There were not too
 DW> many long-running WWIV boards in the area I lived in c1988-1997. Most of
 DW> them were were like Commodore boards... up for a while and then
 DW> disappeared. But there was one that was up for most of that period, until
 DW> BBSing started to wane. It was run by one of the local high school
 DW> computer departments. Considering that kids are only in high school so
 DW> long before moving on, looking back I am surprised it stayed active for
 DW> more than 4 years.

I seem to have left the scene right as it was spinning up. Last night I
remembered that the was one board in the area that was a Fido node, so I
started looking up old nodelists. You can see this explosion of BBSes around
like 1991-1994, and then a they started all disappearing right around the time
the first ISP showed up.

Apparently I missed the heyday of having lots of boards to call. 


- Andre
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