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|  Message 56  |
|  Michael Borthwick to Mike Dippel  |
|  Re: Hi, new node here :)  |
|  31 Mar 23 13:19:36  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48 MSGID: 954:895/48 af7ca09a REPLY: 954:895/1 38aba5f3 TZUTC: 1100 MD> I started back in the days of DOS. Had 4 phone lines hooked into it, one MD> connected to a MD> an ISP so I had internet access. Of course, it was via a modem so it was MD> very slow. But MD> I had a lot of games and users flocked to it because it was such a novel MD> thing back then. Yes my first modem was a 14.4k - brand new technology only just released. It wasn't long after I got my first 1x cd-rom drive. Was on DOS 6.2 with Windows 3.1 but mostly used DOS. MD> MD> I wish I had the activity now that I did back then. I can't even get my MD> family to login MD> now :( Ah can't blame them, only the die hard use BBS these days. It's heaps of fun and you get to chat to people you would never reach on facebook or reddit. At least with BBS and FTN only people that want to be here are here, and the trolls and other horrible people are too busy on twitter to bother us here :) ... There are two types of people; those who finish what they start and --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64) * Origin: third rock bbs: around and around we go (954:895/48) SEEN-BY: 229/110 426 470 700 PATH: 229/470 426 |
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