BBS: The Documentary

All right then.

Bulletin Board System?

Worked with Frank larosa for years, nice guy. Had no idea he was a big bbs guy back in the day, was crazy to suddenly see an old boss in this.

Plastic galaxy was alright, its about star wars toys and the people who collect them.

>>86841705
I was a sysop in 412 and met tons of other sysops over the years. Crazily wide variety of people. There was a police chief who ran a board dedicated to pirated software, a retired military guy who ran a gun shop and had a board about submarines, a literal 13 year old kid who pretended to be a mature adult to fit in who had a board about Star Wars, a guy who owned a junkyard who had a board about Ataris, an Episcopalian minister who had a board about Christianity, a 30-year old couple who grew and sold marijuana for a living who had a board which had no apparent theme or purpose but was most likely another vehicle for their sales, a reclusive genius who later became a tranny who had a board based on cyberpunk themes, a 20 year old girl who tried to have sex with everyone in the scene who had a board which only operated when her dad wasn't home, and a used car salesman who moved into the area and set up a for-pay porn board. I don't want to get started about the users...

>>86842356

As someone clearly older than me (29) how do you feel about how networked devices eventually ended up?

I already miss the early the days of the internet.

>>86843123
Since computers were more expensive in my day, that made them more exclusive to people who were at a certain income or education level. Lots of sysops were entrepreneurs. Users were usually pretty successful or smart too. Internet access was strictly limited to military, academia, and hardcore hobbyists.

Now 5 year old zika babies have voices.