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|    Andre Robitaille to Dumas Walker    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    04 Jun 22 17:14:44    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 1880.fidonet_bbscarni@1:154/70 270116ac       REPLY: 5040.carnival@1:2320/105 2700b950       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/402f4377f Jun 1 2022 GCC 9.4.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/402f4377f Jun 1 2022 GCC 9.4.0       BBSID: RDOMENTR       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: SlyEdit 1.77 (2022-05-27) (DCT style)        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       --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux        * Origin: Radio Mentor BBS - bbs.radiomentor.org (1:154/70)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/302 340       SEEN-BY: 120/616 123/10 131 124/5016 129/215 305 330 331 153/757 7715       SEEN-BY: 154/0 10 30 40 50 70 700 203/0 218/700 220/90 221/0 6 226/18       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428       SEEN-BY: 229/452 470 550 664 700 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/267 280 281 412 416 509 712/848 2320/105 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 3634/12       PATH: 154/70 30 10 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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