JIMMY ANDERSON (21:2/127) wrote to Nightfox <=-

Here, when we moved from Jackson to Memphis, there were still
SEVERAL BBS's running! I paid for a dial up shell account to
use for telnet and such, before we migrated to AOL for 'the
web.' But even then BBS's were still popular. This was 93-94
or so.

They started to die out when I graduated from high school in 1997. People who started to go to college ended up killing off their bbses.
I was the only long term bbs in my area for another decade before i stopped paying for the modem line.

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Nightfox wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Where I am, I'd say there were more than just 'several' BBSes still running in 1993. I didn't even start running my BBS until 1994, and I think there were still a lot of BBSes in my area at that time. Mine
got plenty of callers.. I think it was around 1997 or so when BBS
usage in my area started to drop off, and it seemed to drop off fairly quickly. I took my BBS down in 2000 because it was rarely getting any callers anymore.

Understandable.

What I think is interesting is that I think my current BBS now gets
more use than my original BBS was getting in 2000..

LOL - yeah, I can kinda see that though... In Jackson, there were several
dozen regular callers. In Memphis that was several dozen PER BOARD
and not a lot of them were power users that were on ALL boards. Heck,
I was on a few, but ended up gravitating to about three. :-)


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Malvinas wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Remember bloatware? You'd buy that $300 Packard Bell or HP machine,
and it woud be preinstalled with a TON of stuff that you had to
delete to get system space and processing back. I found out that
the companies PAID to have their stuff installed, and that's how
they could sell the PC's so cheaply.

Thing is, you could delete those "tools and utils", and still be able
to use the machine. Talk about the OS... what do you do if you wipe out your HD and have no OS to install, to replace it. Having an agreement
with the OEMs to have *your* OS pre installed and not let people find whatever OS they'd like... I think it was anything but "nice".

Agreed... At least now there are usually restore files on the hard
drive. :)



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Utopian Galt wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

JIMMY ANDERSON (21:2/127) wrote to Nightfox <=-

Here, when we moved from Jackson to Memphis, there were still
SEVERAL BBS's running! I paid for a dial up shell account to
use for telnet and such, before we migrated to AOL for 'the
web.' But even then BBS's were still popular. This was 93-94
or so.

They started to die out when I graduated from high school in 1997.
People who started to go to college ended up killing off their bbses.
I was the only long term bbs in my area for another decade before i stopped paying for the modem line.

That was when Facebook was college only, right? I wonder if that had
something to do with it too...


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Agreed... At least now there are usually restore files on the hard
drive. :)

And "live" pendrive .iso files, that let you "try before install" different OSs and distros... something that was still the stuff of dreams in the first half of the 80s.

Pol Malvinas.

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Malvinas wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Agreed... At least now there are usually restore files on the hard
drive. :)

And "live" pendrive .iso files, that let you "try before install" different OSs and distros... something that was still the stuff of
dreams in the first half of the 80s.

I know! I have some old Gen2 MacBook Airs that are too slow and outdated
for the staff to get any use out of. Trying a linux install now on one...


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